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• Movie Fridays: Netflix’s New Stalker Drama You

• Professor Alessandra Bonoli on Ecodesign, Circular Economy and Life Cycle Thinking

  …40 series of standards. Then again, in Italy and other European countries, the issues of life cycle assessment and ecodesign have long become part of businesses’ ecological management procedures. And in Russia, they are still perceived as optional. For example, in the EU they have regulations on the certification of products, food products included, which include …

  05.04.2019

• Startup Veteran on Beginners’ Common Mistakes: A Founder’s Main KPI is Staying Alive

  …tivity on others once, two times, three times, and you’ll not even notice when it becomes a regular occurrence. Laziness. Unlike depression, laziness is a choice. As a manager and leader, I’d solve the issue of a lazy employee by talking to them and providing them with motivation. It is a founder’s task to explain why you do what you do: to investors, to frie…

  05.04.2019

• I am a Professional: Gold Medal Winners Share Their Experience

  …and which skills and knowledge you need to develop, or make sure that you are really good at what you’re doing. Daniil Abrashin, graduate of ITMO’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations, gold medal winner in the “Advertising and PR” track I participated in “I am a Professional” for the second time. For me, this was an opportunity to test my kn…

  03.04.2019

• Gamified Education and Blockchain for IPs: Winners of Potanin Foundation’s Grant Competition

  …Educational course “Use of Blockchain for IP Management in the Knowledge Economy” (winner in the “New Educational Course” category) One of this year’s grant winners is Ibrahim Alnafrah, an engineer and PhD student from the Faculty of Technology and Innovation Management. The course he has developed will help non-specialists and stude…

  02.04.2019

• ITMO Master’s Student on ECNP Workshop in Nice

  …n the event in the poster section format. The workshop brought together over 200 young researchers from all over the world, with about 10% of them presenting their works. I managed to make it to the workshop thanks to the Future Today Foundation that provided me with a travel grant. By the way, ECNP also offers travel grants for the best poster and presentation, w…

  01.04.2019

• Get to Know ITMO's Robotics and Control Specialists

  … of hit songs. I’ve been listening to him constantly since 2012. Which book should everyone read? – Lee Iacocca’s autobiography. It’s a great book that shows that effective managers can’t be “incubated”. Favorite scientific theory or formula? – As strange as it might be, but in everyday life I’ve found plenty of practical applications for the law of cosines, wh…

  28.03.2019

• Robotic Trolleys, Smart Drones and Full Automation: How Things Work at Unilever Factory in St. Petersburg

  … reduce the human factor. “I really enjoyed the tour. It was very interesting and useful,” shares Anton Medvedev, a first-year student at the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations. “I see it, above all, as an opportunity to see first-hand how things work at a real factory and understand how the production process is organized as early as in my …

  27.03.2019

• Scientist Evgeny Belyaev on the Challenges of Video Encoding, Limits of Compression, and Future of Streaming

  …of the standard H.264 codec (below) is comparable to a specific codec for this task (above), but for larger packet losses (10% and 20%) it becomes noticeable that H.264 cannot manage. Usually, there are algorithms for resending lost data, which is why you don’t see this kind of problem on video-on-demand services like YouTube, but when a user is sending data to multi…

  26.03.2019

• Plastic Cards from Magnetic Stripes to Apple Pay: How Payment Industry Changed Over 70 Years

  …ystems like Unionpay International, which is, while on one hand international, bases practically all of its transactions in China. There are also national payment systems that managed to breakthrough to the international market, such as the Japanese JCB. By tally of transactions, Mastercard remains to be the world’s leading payment system. National payment systems…

  26.03.2019