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WUD@ITMO 2019: Design for the Future That We Want
… conference coincided with World Usability Day, which has been internationally celebrated since 2005. This year, the main topic of the event was “Design for the Future That We Want”. WUD@ITMO was first organized by the Center of Usability and Mixed Reality (Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems) in 2015. Since then, the event has been growing its audie…
20.11.2019
A Quick Getaway to Moscow: the Journey from St. Petersburg
…per way to travel. Return flights are from about 3,500 rubles and up (55 USD), depending on the time of year, day of the week, time of day, airline, and the airport you want to get to in Moscow. Once in Moscow, you can grab the Aeroexpress, which will take you from the three main airports into the city center, or you can grab a taxi. You can buy tickets from t…
19.11.2019
Conference School on Photonics, Radio Physics and Nanotechnologies at Sirius
…. The topic of the school’s roundtables were “Scientific success in Russia and abroad” and “Interdisciplinary research”. The participants could ask all the questions they wanted, as well as discuss various matters with the speakers. “We spent most of the time listening to lectures on nanotechnology and photonics. But I also wan
19.11.2019
EmPaci: Russia Joins International Project on Implementing Participatory Budgeting
…f new ones. From the standpoint of constructing new ones, it is the municipality that has to make the decision of what to build and where. But if we ask the citizens what they want and where we’ll learn what we should prioritize. This is what we have to begin with. And then, the dialog with the citizens will not just let us know what we should build but also how. Thi…
19.11.2019
Nanoblogging, Twitter Reincarnation and Instagram-Archives Monetization: Founder of Hello blogger On Current Digital Trends
…, but the team is rapidly catching up with the bandwagon that’s bolting away. I believe the platform can still be reborn just like Twitter was this year. Platforms Want to learn the biggest blogging news of the last 48 hours? For one: Instagram is testing a TikTok prototype in Brazil. What does it tell us? Around two years ago, a grown-up audience dev…
18.11.2019
Business Analyst and Football Player: ITMO University Graduate On Juggling Sports and Career
…ch a high-quality education, which allowed me to get a very prestigious position. Do you still work there? No, I’m now looking for a new place. But I don’t think that I want to switch to another field. Why did you quit your last job? It seemed to me that there were too many dull, routine tasks. I think that this is why most ambitious people who
18.11.2019
Recognizing Personality by Face and Controlling a Loader in VR: ITMO’s Pre-Accelerator + Highpark Participants at the Innovation Forum
…ake so as to be perceived differently. It is based on the first impression, the way other people react to someone when they first meet. For example, we had an entrepreneur who wanted to have a look for business meetings that would make him get his ideas across and be seen a certain way during tough negotiations,” continues Zhuchkov. The project is now operating…
15.11.2019
University of the Future: Russian and British University Officials Discuss Trends in Education
…danger of all of the universities in the world becoming the same. We can draw an analogy to populations in the wild: genetic homogeneity is a cause of various diseases. I also want to point out the importance of each university offering a wide range of disciplines in their native languages. Obviously, it is great when everyone, like we all here, is in perfect command…
15.11.2019
What Russian Startups Bring to Japan
… work, I was amazed by the level of thought, philosophy, perception of business. I was also amazed by the way they treat my target audience. It was then that I realized that I want to work with Japan.” East and West: what’s the difference? People from different countries and cultures can’t always find common ground during negotiations. There’s always a possib…
14.11.2019
Participants of Google’s STEP Internship Share Tips for First-Timers
…If you want something, have no doubt - keep trying! Anastasia Postnikova, ITMO University student, intern at Google Switzerland GmbH, Switzerland After passing my first summer exams at ITMO, I started thinking about where I could apply next year. I went around asking where the older students work or get internships at. Someone told me that Google was acceptin…
13.11.2019