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• ITMO University in 2018: A Year in Review

  …fter its announcement in 2017, the project picked up the pace and entered a new phase of development this September; last month, renowned design firms from Russia, the UK, the Netherlands, and Austria presented stunning concept designs for the innovation city. Students, staff, and friends of the university took part in a poll to determine the future of Highpark. W…

  18.12.2018

• ITMO University Lecturers on Benefits of Using Online Courses in Teaching

  …dents, we decided to stick with the online format. Each lecture is developed by a teacher who is responsible for one of the course’s modules such as information security, Internet communication culture, digital ethics, and so on. All the lectures are organized in such a way that students can grasp all the basic terms and concepts from the very start. We also work …

  18.12.2018

• Musicians: Nature or Nurture? Science Journalist Asya Kazantseva Explains

  …Psychology, neurobiology and genetics already know a lot about the brain’s less complex operations such as how the vision works. But it is the higher-level brain functions like listening to music, enjoying music, performing music, that prove a tougher nut to crack, as these activate many different parts and cortices of the brain with an odd distribution of functions,…

  17.12.2018

• University of Twente’s Stefano Stramigioli: Robotics Is About Giving Machines Life

• Movie Chitter-Chatter: Pride and Prejudice

  …worst acting instincts push him off the crumbling edge into this bottomless abyss of infamy. But I would tell you one thing: this is a Mr. Darcy Keira Knightley’s Elizabeth Bennet truly deserves. I don’t think even he is so bad to level up with Her Horribleness aka The Worst Female Actor On The Planet. I know. It’s like, at least he …

  14.12.2018

• On the Origin of Memes: Meme Scientist Explains Post-Irony and Future of Internet Culture

  …evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene proposed a basic unit of cultural transmission: a meme. A meme to memetics is what a gene is to genetics. Both evolve and propagate according to the laws of natural selection. Any idea, symbol, expression or action can become a meme. Dawkins’s examples of memes included idioms, types of arc…

  13.12.2018

• Microbial Fuel Cell, Space Station, and Electronic Guide: Finals of Quantoriada Competition

• Techies Tell: Best Podcasts for Data Aficionados

  … learning. In each episode of the podcast, they talk about solving real-world problems, such as how to use linear regression software for forecasting or how to create a neural network in order to answer questions about images. A very informative number! Talking Machines Presenters of this podcast give Google executives, scientists, and developers a technologica…

  13.12.2018

• BizCycle: Moving Towards Comfortable Biking Infrastructure on Russian-Finnish Border

  …ith the representatives of local tourism and hospitality businesses and organization of events: seminars, business trips, and one of the main events of the BizCycle project, a networking day for entrepreneurs from both sides of the Russian-Finnish border. The Committee for Tourism of the Leningrad Oblast and the Tourism Information Center will be in charge of …

  12.12.2018

• Future of NTI Centers Discussed at NTI Ecosystem Forum in Sochi

  …egal environments. Participants of the section exploring issues standing before export accelerators observed the need for creating comprehensive collaboration and sales networks, as well as for developing connections with foreign experts and associations. Also highlighted were the criteria that make exporting successful: manufacturers need to pay special atten…

  11.12.2018