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• How Reading and Literature Changed in the Digital Age

  …elite. They appeared because prestigious universities started to give out scholarships for gifted young people. All of a sudden, a generation of young graduates with nice diplomas, huge ambitions, and a right to become a new elite appeared. Their key feature is a short road to success. It used to take dozens of years, but for them it was no more than five or s…

  10.04.2020

• Gaka-Chu: The Robot That Dreams of Being an Artist

  …ndependent but would lack any form of connection with the outside world – something that is somehow transmitted through art. While working on my thesis for my Art & Science Master’s program, I discovered one important thing. What now is becoming a fundamental element of sci-fi pop culture and defines our era — artificial life and robots — isn't a disassociation wi…

  10.04.2020

• Entrepreneur Evgeny Mutovkin on Helping Volunteers and Cooperating with His Alma Mater

  … other citizens while moving. How do you sanitize the vehicles? After washing the scooters the usual way, we treat them with a disinfectant. Our staff work in gloves and masks.  There are general rules for everyone who goes outside, and they also apply to e-scooter users. Before your commute, you have to wipe the handlebars, gas and brakes levers, and the lo…

  10.04.2020

• It Is Lies that Spread Panic: ITMO PhD Student on Automated Identification of Fake News

  …TMO PhD student Arseniy Tretyakov is working on a system that will make use of neural networks and datasets to calculate the probability of a text being fake. Before joining a Master’s program at ITMO, Arseniy studied journalism. Having changed his focus to technical research, he began the development of an automated system for identifying fake news. “Arseniy de…

  10.04.2020

• William Ngona Mulenga: ITMO Opened Up a Whole New World of Opportunities For Me

  …usiness trading in homeware and electronics online. After working on that for a while, I was presented with a scholarship opportunity by the Zambian government to study for my Master’s, so I decided to take it up in the field of Innovation Economics and Industry Regulation at ITMO University. What made you choose that as your field of studies? I chose this fiel…

  09.04.2020

• Oncologist Maksim Kotov: Communicating With a Patient Shouldn’t Be a Game of Luck

• Entrepreneur Vaagn Ogannisian: Businesses Must Make Friends With Universities

  …ll over the country, of which there were ten. I left because I wanted to go back to Armenia. When I got there, I worked for two years at the same factory as my parents. It’s a massive facility, much larger than Tinkoff. But in 2008, I decided to move back to St. Petersburg to study and work here. I enrolled in a PhD program and started working at the Vaclav brewery. …

  03.04.2020

• How Statistics Can Skew Facts – and How We Can Learn to Trust It Again

  …uential theories in social science, economics, and psychology were just that – pure theories, Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory being the most well-known example. It had a massive effect on culture, society, and science even though it was developed without any experiments, verification, or clear empirical data. Examining the structure of any contemporary resea…

  03.04.2020

• Safe and Social: Video Games to Play in Self-Isolation

  …an recommend to you with a necessary word of caution, as games in this genre are essentially virtual worlds with even real-life marriages known to have happened “inside” them. Massively multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft or Destiny 2 allow you to interact with hundreds of other gamers logged into the game with you, all exploring a typically huge open wor…

  03.04.2020

• “I Am a Professional”: Competition Winners on Experience Gained and Opportunities Discovered

  …ence. I’ll use the grant money to get a new laptop and invest in the development of the laboratory where I work. I’m also hoping to use my enrollment perks when applying for a Master’s program at ITMO. Next year, I’ll be taking part in the competition again, this time in several tracks at once. Natalia Zheltova, gold medal winner of the Advertising and PR track, s…

  01.04.2020