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Entrepreneur Evgeny Mutovkin on Helping Volunteers and Cooperating with His Alma Mater
…The university had given me friends that later became my business partners, and we’re keeping in touch and running joint projects up to this day. I’m grateful to ITMO for the network of people I now have with me, it’s with them that I achieved success in what I do, so to some degree I owe it to the university because it all started there.…
10.04.2020
It Is Lies that Spread Panic: ITMO PhD Student on Automated Identification of Fake News
…started to change with the development of such communication means as the telegraph, regular mail, the telephone and finally the internet. These inventions made communication between the journalist and their source much easier, and with time, the quality of publication began to grow. Still, we shouldn’t forget that fake news appears not only due to technical diffi…
10.04.2020
Life After MVP: How Startups Can Avoid the Post-Acceleration “Crash and Burn”
…one- or two-week basis. One week is enough for B2C, where you can quickly measure an action’s efficiency through marketing methods. As for B2B, the testing period should last between two weeks and a month. HADI cycles work well with traction maps, which are a tool that’ll help you change the scale of your testing. The first stage of a traction map is the first sale. …
10.04.2020
Yuzhny Satellite City to Feature New Transport Hub
…rovide the necessary reserve of traffic capacity for the major highways,” comments Sergey Khromov, the CEO of Gorod-Sputnik Yuzhny, LLC. The construction of various road network objects and the transport hub were included in the layout of the transportation facilities of the southern planning area that was designed by the Center of Transport Planning of St. Pete…
09.04.2020
ITMO University PhD Student Evgeniy Odlyanitskiy on Creating a Laser Facility During Isolation
Scientists from ITMO and S.N. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Complex Have Developed and Introduced New Laser Method for Cataract Surgery
…y illuminate the surgical field but also stimulate regeneration of the damaged tissue. So, they started conducting experiments aimed at finding the optimal interaction method between the destroying and the illuminating lasers. “We’ve tested different configurations: we used the low-intensive radiation first and then destroyed the lens,” says Prof. Belikov. ,…
08.04.2020
Window to the World: ITMO Programmers’ New App Helps Combat Self-Isolation Loneliness
…a, a frontend developer at ITMO University. Development took them about a week: it was important to make sure that the app functions quickly and correctly despite the overall network overload during the pandemic. “It’s important to realize who this or that visualization is for, who would use it and how,” says Iuliia. “We’ve made the design simple: the interface …
08.04.2020
This Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Online Theater and Comedy Performances
…ate a cracking viewing program for this weekend! The Stay at Home Comedy Festival Initiated by comedian, actor and writer Robin Ince and produced by the Cosmic Shambles Network, the Stay at Home Comedy Festival aims to deliver some much-needed comedic relief to the living rooms of self-isolated comedy fans – by self-isolated comedy pros. The daily broadcasts fe…
08.04.2020
Oncologist Maksim Kotov: Communicating With a Patient Shouldn’t Be a Game of Luck
…a course at your university, then? No. We studied specialized subjects: anatomy, physiology, and many other topics that aren’t at all connected to the direct communication between a doctor and a patient. Medical universities’ curriculum do include a course called Ethics and Deontology, taught over six years, but the problem is that it’s not very practical – meanin…
08.04.2020
Quadcopter vs. Traffic Safety Inspectors: Researchers Test Drones for Traffic Road Accident Analysis
… two cars at the crossroads as if they bumped into each other, and then conducted the following experiment. The quadcopter was able to document the site, measure the distance between the cars, and create a model of the accident in about three minutes. Next came the inspectors – three people measured the distance with a measuring tape and drew a layout plan in ten min…
06.04.2020