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• The Four Lost Letters of the Russian Alphabet

  … name Юлия (Yulia) would look like Юлiя. Izhitsa’s fate was almost identical. This letter also stood for the same sound as i and и. Yep, three letters for one sound! The explanation lies in the way the Cyrillic alphabet came to be. The thing is, Russian writing and the Orthodox church went hand in hand. For a long time, it was members of the clergy who created …

  03.03.2025

• ITMO and Samolet Group Host School for Future IT Leaders

  …teamwork in IT. The school taught students to present their projects, see them as products, and efficiently pitch their ideas inside an organization or to investors,” said Svetlana Nokhrina, the head of the youth programs development team at Samolet Group. |s=2,center| The school was attended by 50 students from ITMO’s Institute of Applied Computer Science. I…

  14.02.2025

• Always Calculate: Physicist Ivan Terekhov on Fundamental Studies and Scientific Anecdotes

  …op-sci books. For example, I remember that in primary school I learned about the imaginary unit in math from a book, but it was only briefly mentioned, without a sufficient explanation. I tried asking the teachers at school; some said I would find out when I'm a little older. But someone advised me to talk to a high school teacher. I was surprised to learn that the i…

  03.02.2025

• Four ITMO Students Win 1 Million Ruble Each in National Contest Your Turn

  …d an online course on Stepik. This project won in the special category by Rosatom. Projects by ITMO students also featured in other tracks and categories. For instance, Svetlana Lavrukhina, a student of the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations, won in the first-years-targeted track called Trailblaizer; while another student from the faculty, Melaniy…

  24.01.2025

• Must-Watch Russian Cartoons for Learners of Any Level

  …der Tatarsky Снежные зайчики (Snow Bunnies) (2014) by Elizaveta Manokhina and Polina Manokhina  Auteur animation Два трамвая (Two Trams) (2016) by Svetlana Andrianova Elementary (A1) At this level, you can watch short-length animated films; they, as a rule, use neutral vocabulary and simple sentences. There will be no abundance o…

  06.01.2025

• Year of the Snake: Serpents in Slavic Folklore

  …ussian ethnographer Mikhail Chulkov wrote that snakes were almost like gods to the Slavs. They received offerings, such as food and milk, and couldn’t be killed. The likely explanation is that snakes played two important roles in Slavic mythology: one of them had to do with domestic life and the other is rooted in ancient times. Snakes as patrons  If our contem…

  02.01.2025

• The Science of Art: ITMO and the Russian Museum Reveal Science Facts Behind Iconic Masterpieces

  …tics; and Yulli Uletova, a scholar of the history of Pompeii. Wave was the subject of focus for Alexander Osadchiev, an oceanologist and PhD in physics and mathematics; Svetlana Ulasevich, an associate professor at ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center; and Maxim Volynsky, a PhD in technical sciences and the head of ITMO’s Scientific and Educational Laboratory “M…

  06.12.2024

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #69

  … use case. Read more: Classification From ITMO To Help AI Generate Random Noise on Request *** Ask a comic book fan and they’ll tell you that the times of handwavy explanations for their favorite heroes’ abilities are long gone: nowadays, everyone from Batman to Spider-Man is grounded in real science – or, at least, as close to real science as you can get. S…

  02.12.2024

• ITMO Receives 162 Million Rubles for AI Computer Vision System for Drones

  … With SMILE, it will be possible to incorporate various support mechanisms for CV model developers, including testing process automation, model robustness assessment, and explanations for composite model structure, via the integrated large language model. GosNIIAS is one of the leading developers in the field of CV, robotics, and AI in the military-industrial co…

  26.11.2024

• Science Through Art: Marcelo Velasco and Ignacio Nieto on Latin American Art & Science and Working at ITMO

  …e, and texture. In this manner, it can evade herbivores. The question is: how does the vine “see” the nearby plants in order to imitate them? Scientists have suggested some explanations, each more outlandish than the other: it senses emissions of other plants in the air, exchanges genetic data with the other plant through microorganisms, or uses photosensitivity and …

  20.11.2024