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• Things to Do This Weekend: September 9-10

  …al style painting to vector and graffiti artists. Also, on September 10 it will be the closing of the Big Paintings exhibition at the Stables Department of the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, exhibiting 19 monumental artworks by 20th century Russian artists. If it is music that is more to your liking, and you are always fond of making new discoveries, you…

  06.09.2017

• Semester Abroad in Russia: Lifetime of Memories

  …there are so many places to see. I have a list and I check off which palace I’ve seen. All the palaces are so nice from the outside, well taken care of, you can see the rich history of St. Petersburg when you go through the streets. I also enjoy the abundance of street musicians and the fact that many shops are open 24 hours a day. In Germany everything is closed on …

  04.09.2017

• ITMO Student Wins Sberbank Scholarship to Develop Neural Network for Investment Planning

  …ersonalized investment portfolios. What this means is that the bank’s clients will be offered options for what to invest their personal funds into based on their transaction history at Sberbank. As Natalia explains, less than 2% of Russians invest into stocks since a lot of people are not familiar with financial processes. In the US, for example, almost half of the p…

  04.09.2017

• Yandex Expert Shares Rules for Co-Existence of Humans and AI

  … not for them, the entire e-payment system would fail. In discussing the limits in what is for humans and what is for machines, we realize that, for the entirety of human history, these limits would constantly be moved closer to humans, leaving more and more activity to be done by machines. More and more activities that, for some reason, were once thought to be ex…

  29.08.2017

• Russian-Japanese Exchange Program: Participants Share

  …ooks and films with reality. Also, I was interested in talking to native Japanese, learning about their mentality and culture, as well as simply enjoying this country’s rich history and unique traditions. Top row: Henrietta Leiman and Daniil Morachev. Bottom row: Nikita Kubarev, Natalya Startseva and Maria Bogdanova from St. Petersburg State University We went …

  29.08.2017

• Mountaineers Name Peak After ITMO University

  …randed (they didn’t even bother removing the logo) rope to hitch their horses. We found them and persuaded them to compensate for our troubles and help us cross the river. The story has its closure:  this family was later run out by the locals and moved to a different area; on the site of our crossing, the locals constructed a bridge. A Google Earth view of the …

  28.08.2017

• "In English, Please": De-Jargonizer Helps Make Science Accessible

  …s be clear. We are not advocating sensationalism. Scientists are wary of sensationalism, and for a good reason. Science is about facts and objectivity, not hyperbole to sell a story. However, we maintain that objectivity is not at odds with adding a creative element to our writing, or making it clearer, more accessible and interesting to read,” – writes Ms. Doubleday…

  21.08.2017

• Dave Vasquez: We Need To Start Teaching Entrepreneurship Back In School

  … and I earned good money for a student. Bogota, Columbia. Credit: varlamov.me And how did you start collaborating with ITMO UNiversity? This is a really interesting story. By that time, I were working with startups for four years already. Yet, while formerly I took part in different projects myself - I had my own agency, we developed websites, applications…

  17.08.2017

• Giant Paper Plane Dives in at Red Bull Flugtag

  … artificial dinosaur and dressed as dinosaurs almost missed the ramp, and their pterodactyl hanged from the pier, almost having showed the first negative result in Flugtag's history. "If we compare the Flugtag in Russia with the festivals in other countries, it seems that people gather here to just have fun and don't care much about winning. In other places peop…

  17.08.2017

• The Night of Light: Gatchina Hosts International Light Art Festival

  …ble to fight the feeling of imminent danger. "We took Slavic myths about will-o-wisps and drowned corpses and created images that would remind of them. We've told the story of spirits that live in water and are then burned by fire; water, wind and fire were the elements we've focused on. Our goal was not to scare the viewers, but to remind them of the fears …

  15.08.2017