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• Our Mood-Boosting Strategies for the Winter Season

  …se, all while a guy with a cute Australian accent is telling you that you’re doing a great job. He might not know you personally and has no idea that you’re really in your pajamas and your plank looks like a collapsing caldera but it doesn’t matter – he’s certain that you can do anything for 30 seconds and you tend to believe. In his Happy Hour video, he says: “The i…

  24.11.2020

• ITMO Staff Develop Cloud Platform for Virtual Labs

  …ess to real and virtual lab equipment from anywhere at any time. Up to hundreds of people can use the platform simultaneously, as the technology offers group and, potentially, mass access to the equipment. During a meeting as part of the ITMO.EXPERT project, the faculty’s staff and its dean Pavel Kustarev presented three cloud-based virtual laboratories. Pavel …

  24.11.2020

• School of Translational Information Technologies Head Alexander Boukhanovsky Named Dean of the Year

  …ts team deals with challenges of the near future, in which devices with embedded artificial intelligence will become plentiful enough to be able, at least in theory, to form a massive “thinking” network. “It would be ridiculous to be concerned about the AI of an individual coffee maker or a washing machine,” says Prof. Boukhanovsky. “But there is the possibility…

  20.11.2020

• Friday Experiment: Attempting to Write Every Day

  … knew that? Well, then I’ll just remind myself yet again.  Needless to say, all of the above can be applied to literally any long-standing task – be that your thesis, a massive homework assignment, or anything else you put off all the time. I am happy to have made the mistakes for you so that you can happily skip them. We’ll see how the next three weeks go,…

  20.11.2020

• Project by ITMO Student Displayed at the State Museum of Urban Sculpture

  … Daria Plotnikova graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from the program in Computer Technologies in Design, took third place in the graduation thesis competition, and got into a Master’s program. Now, finally, the project that brought Daria the victory in the university competition, will be finally presented to the public.  Exhibiting frozen time The exhibition W…

  20.11.2020

• How the Stones of Ancestors Exhibition Changes Our Perception of Archaeology

  …ts (copies of real artifacts from the Stone Age) were commissioned from flintknappers, professionals who specialize in replicating stone tools. They were created by well-known masters from Russia and abroad. For example, a flint dagger was made in Denmark, and an obsidian sickle – in Armenia. The first exhibitions took place in a garage on Vasilyevsky Island that …

  19.11.2020

• ITMO Technopark Resident Creates a Sophisticated Distance Learning System

  …ue to closed borders. Currently, the system is being tested at one of the schools in Kazakhstan. The first small-scale batch for testing was manually assembled by the team. Mass production is planned to be launched in February 2021. The first ten thousand devices will be also sent to schools in Kazakhstan, as well as to Nazarbayev University. As for Russia, the pr…

  19.11.2020

• ITMO University Holds Sixth International UX Conference WUD@ITMO

  …? by Philip K. Dick. Both of these works were written in the late 1960s, but 50 years on we still haven’t created a sufficiently strong AI or solved the ethical and moral dilemmas accompanying it.  Alexander Volosyuk gave a brief overview of the history and theory of human-robot interaction, drawing attention to the main concepts of the leading experts in the fiel…

  18.11.2020

• Results of ITMO University’s First Online Course on Climate and Journalism

  …wo homework assignments: make an infographic and an explainer – a popular science explanation of a topic,” says Olga Dobrovidova, “They also read a number of texts written for mass media. I think that such deliberate reading is a good way to form a clear, coherent picture of the world and understand the arguments of the different parties including climate change deni…

  18.11.2020

• Brain as a Hologram: Exploring Vision at ITMO’s Museum of Optics

  …ut where can you, too, find out more about all this stuff, you ask? Well, stay tuned to announcements – chances are, there will soon be a similar course for students of ITMO’s Master’s program in Art & Science.  In the meantime, check out our previous cognitive science articles on memory, eye movements, and eerie brain stories, and the takeaways from Prof. Stafeev…

  17.11.2020