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• HEX Hackathon: 32 Hours to Make the World a Better Place

  …lack of visibility. “We chose this track because of its social mission. Maxim and I both work in for-profit companies, but we also wanted to contribute to social change”, shared Andrei Vinogradov. “Bloomberg asked that we create an application that would help smaller charities to get visibility and, at the same time, would be useful for people willing…

  04.04.2018

• Russian Easter: a Feast of Cheer

  …artists and their families. You’ve never partaken in an egg battle? Russian Easter is the perfect time to try it. Instructions: hold an egg (experienced players recommend the sharp end forward) and try to crush an egg of your opponent. Whose egg is uncrushed, wins.  World-famous Fabergé eggs were Easter gifts for the Russian royal family and, later, for the nobleme…

  03.04.2018

• Video Games vs. MBAs: How Gaming Makes You a Better Employee

  …tain behavior patterns useful in real life. Gamers know that failure is survivable, because they have already failed thousands of times and they are not afraid to start over”, shared Miroslava Valkevich. Indeed, researchers from Texas Tech University found out that playing video games can mitigate the pain of failure and help to remain positive. However, it is n…

  03.04.2018

• Funny Science: ITMO Hosts Its First-Ever Science Stand-Up Show "Quantum Potential"

  …orge Zograf, a PhD student at the Faculty of Physics and Engineering. How to present yourself to scientific foundations, how to get a response, how to interact with colleagues sharing a grant, how to entertain yourself on the grant’s money and how to behave if you didn't get a grant? Everything is just like in a real relationship. "Each scientific foundation has i…

  02.04.2018

• #ITMOCODE: Competition for Vacant Posts for Professors and Lecturers

  … the university’s unique “code”: V+F+PS+SS. We want our current and future employees to understand this concept, which will allow us to create a team of like-minded people who share the same values and mission and truly love their job. The main purpose of this competition is to create a strong team of teachers ready to implement new teaching techniques and face moder…

  02.04.2018

• Startup Pallium Promises Smarter AI

  …roslavl. When we began developing the project, I had lived in St. Petersburg for two years. We had an unpleasant incident at the beginning: our first investor panicked after a sharp cryptocurrency decline and withdrew all the funds. We did not have any contracts finalized at the time, and we were literally on the verge of selling everything that we had. When we were …

  30.03.2018

• Russian, German and French Scientists to Collaborate on Nanowhisker Research at European XFEL

  …te programs. Joint Russian-French project Alexey Romanov, head of the Department of Modern Functional Materials at ITMO University and co-director of the UniFEL Center, shared with us that a meeting was held at European XFEL offices in Hamburg in June 2017. Participants discussed joint research with the Center for Nanophysics and Nanotechnologies (France), rep…

  28.03.2018

• itmo.ru: The Best Birthday Present

  …to take over. As I started working on the site, I was inspired by new people: students from completely different departments were registering, connecting on the forum, sharing materials and ideas. We also met offline and had a great time. Over time, the student community became the foundation of the project. So the site was built from scratch? How did it …

  26.03.2018

• Dmitry Volkov vs. Tatyana Chernigovskaya: Superintelligence and Living Machines

  …er of the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies at MSU. He told the participants of the LAKHTA VIEW session about the issues of artificial intelligence and consciousness and shared his vision on how can we coexist with superintelligence. Machines that today have rudimentary expertise in different fields, will eventually learn to think about general things.  Afte…

  26.03.2018

• ITMO Hosts AI Academy Open Lessons

  …o programming and web design, and code on Python. The latter is thanks to our school teacher who is interested in programming languages and gives us additional knowledge, they share. It’s true that we are witnessing the automation and digitalization of many fields of human activity, which is why computer science and everything that has to do with machine learning see…

  23.03.2018