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• JetBrains VP of Developer Advocacy Hadi Hariri: Coding Matters, But Communication Matters More

  …our opinion, are the opportunities that it offers to programmers? What are its pros and cons? Kotlin was born of the needs we at JetBrains experienced. We needed it; we wanted a language that would make a developer’s life simpler, like our products do. The core idea for Kotlin was to make code concise, expressive, and, of course, enjoyable. To rid developers o…

  01.11.2019

• Expert Mona Khalil on Cross-Cultural Awareness, Communication, and Understanding Cultures Through Food

  …rg and become involved in this course at ITMO? It just so happened that ITMO and I crossed paths; we came upon each other and I found it interesting, first of all because I wanted a change from Moscow, and secondly because the University somehow managed to grab my interest by saying that the audience I would be teaching would be multinational. In most of my classe…

  31.10.2019

• Quality of Admission to Universities Ranking 2019

  …lso important for us is to attract motivated students who share our values ​​and mission. The fact that the average USE score is increasing indicates that more and more people want to study at our university, both in state-funded and fee-based positions. Each year, there emerge new subject areas at ITMO University that attract school students. Today, it’s not only th…

  31.10.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 2-4

  …eanor Rigby, which we may or may not have come up with just now (holler for copyright, we’re open to collaborations), is that the song was written about people who desperately want a corgi but can’t have one. If you recognize yourself in that description, here comes the sun (doo doo doo): the Corgivin corgi festival is the perfect place for you this weekend. Come rou…

  30.10.2019

• Bend it Like Beckham: ITMO Winners of VK Hackathon Develop App for Honing Football Skills

  … “While we were driving to the pitch, we were afraid that the sample data would be too scarce, that it would be just us and our camera person on the pitch. But a lot of people wanted to help and came, so at the end what we were afraid of wasn’t not finding enough people but finding enough time so we could record everyone.”  As a result, the would-be winners …

  30.10.2019

• Surprise Me Founder Alexander Golovatiy: Developing a Company Is Constantly Proving Thousands of Hypotheses

  …had tried around 100 hypotheses before we found an interesting niche that turned out to be “juicy” in startup terms. These days, you have to join a group of 80 tourists if you want to see the Colosseum. This doesn’t do anyone any good: I read a great number of negative reviews on TripAdvisor with visitors saying they got lost, didn’t hear the guide or they did, but t…

  30.10.2019

• ITMO Graduates on Education in Russia and Finland, Running a Business and Being Expats

  … I thought this an apposite moment to try to find a job abroad.  So you specifically looked for a job abroad?  Lev: Yes, from as early as in my school years I really wanted to move. Eventually, I started to look for jobs in Europe and America. First I went to Estonia, where I had an interview at Skype; sadly, they didn’t take me on. Then I tried for a job i…

  29.10.2019

• John Ioannidis’s ITMO Lecture: What’s Wrong With Medical Research and How We Can Make It Right

  …Stanford University professor John Ioannidis’s visit to ITMO University attracted a lot of attention. So many people wanted to see and listen to the person who made the world question the quality of medical research that some of them had to sit on the floor or stand in the aisles of the assembly hall in one of ITMO’s buildings. The hosts even set up an additional bro…

  28.10.2019

• Song of the Month: October 2019

  … like Kiss (Forever is timeless – no pun intended – classic of power ballads), Ken Hensley (I Close My Eyes is my favorite), and The Guess Who (These Eyes and Laughing, if you want my opinion). But the lines I am constantly repeating in my head are from a relatively new song Give It Away by Tinsley Ellis, terrific blues musician from America: “If you wanted to pursue. While my Master’s program is a whole different thing: when I came to the department, I already had experience of working in this field and knew perfectly why I was there. T…

  25.10.2019