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• Green Campuses and Recycling: Sustainable Development by Youth International Forum at ITMO

  …Sustainable Development Goals and ITMO University The term “sustainable development” refers to the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. This definition emerged in the report by the World Commission on Environment and Development “Our Common Future”…

  25.04.2019

• ITMO Developers on Creating an Evaluation System for Plagiarism Detection in 48 Hours

  … ITMO University in 2017. At the hackathon, we were given two weeks to solve the text alignment problem. When performing this task, you’re given two documents, one of which contains a number of copied passages from the other one. The task is to find all these passages (sentences or paragraphs). We quickly came up with a working algorithm, which inspired us to part…

  23.04.2019

• Exosuits, Career Guidance Bots, and Water Quality Analysis: Projects by Participants of Congress of Young Scientists

  …of steel and pneumatics. I’ve been working on this project for three years and I publish key updates on Exofiz’s VK page. Eleonora Taranina, category “Ecology and Sustainable Development” My project concerns a complex analysis of water used for drinking by the citizens of the town of Kondopoga. A survey has shown that many of the city’s inhabitants drink…

  23.04.2019

• ITMO Graduates Featured in Forbes' 30 Under 30 Ranking

  …or him and the rest of the staff. They didn’t have enough information on a wide range of topics: how prostheses are fitted in, which certifications a medical device needs to obtain, who covers the price of a prosthesis, and how the prosthetic rehabilitation process takes place. In their solving many of these issues they were majorly helped by the Agency for Strategic…

  22.04.2019

• HackUniversity: Create, Think, and Simply Have a Good Time

  …g Conveyor”. “Our task was to teach a robot to use a camera in order to determine the coordinates of objects on a conveyor belt,” explains Alexey Ustinov, the team captain and second-year Bachelor’s student at the Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies. “Hackathons always make you work hard to produce the best solution. Our team has already represented IT…

  22.04.2019

• The Celebrity Fish of St. Petersburg

  …How can a city be obsessed with a fish? This time of year, you’ll see it being sold everywhere - in containers by metro stations, in supermarkets, cafes and posh restaurants. It’s being fried in kitchens and used as an excuse to have a party. “I gutted and fried four kilos of koryushka and I don’t even like it that much. But hey, it’s a tradition,” said my friend…

  22.04.2019

• Places to See: Modern and Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg

• Semantic Hub Founder Vitaly Nedelskiy: 90% of Startups Fail Because Nobody Needs Their Product

  …e, you’re going to call utilities, they’ll send for a plumber, the plumber will come in and fix it. But we could also install sensors and, once pressure starts to drop in a certain area, the system will send a plumber to investigate the spot of a probable leak. This way, the reaction speed is higher, we lose less water, and you won’t have to deal with a flooded home.…

  19.04.2019

• Data-Driven Medicine: How Patients May Become Their Own Doctors

  …city to store everything digitally, and not every patient is able to aggregate all of their data. When every doctor must learn about the patient on their own, it’s hard to maintain a continuity of medical care. Today, we face a new generation of technology that will make it possible to share medical data on a global scale. We could provide timely access to all sor…

  18.04.2019

• Behavioral Economics: Why Humans Aren’t Made to Be Rational

  …mes require an enormous amount of effort. In a classic experiment on this topic, the subjects are asked to read a text describing an individual’s daily routine. The text contains references to the individual’s occupation and activities. Then, the readers are presented with a set of multiple choice questions and asked to pick the answers that best describe the char…

  17.04.2019