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• Entrepreneurial Culture: A Look Into the New General Course at ITMO

  …ation within the University’s various buildings, cafeteria food, paperwork and bureaucracy, healthy living and social activities. Teamwork, discussions both within groups and between them, and a focus on practical application of educational material and the actual implementation of students’ ideas: these were the defining features of the educational process for our M…

  26.12.2018

• ITMO University Awards Its First Academic Degrees

  …a controlling body is familiar and understandable, and we are yet to tell what the new initiative will lead to. I already get the feeling that there's a sort of a competition between the traditional thesis boards and the new ones. Some candidates prefer to have their defense the traditional way, others choose the new system. However, the very idea of launching a new …

  25.12.2018

• New Year's Gifts Russian Style

  …formed in South Russia by personal care and wellness items. Some 80% of Russian women and 70% of Russian men confess to purchasing their own gifts, which is often the case between spouses. “Your granddad gave me nice earrings for New Year’s,” my grandma would say, heading to the store. The people who have it the worst are doctors, teachers, and distant friends,…

  24.12.2018

• Mind Maps, Open Spaces, and Cooking Contests: ITMO Staff Visit UK’s Oxford Brookes University

  …cess to information and creates the right conditions for both individual and collective studies. For instance, the entire premises of Oxford Brookes are covered by a Wi-Fi network, including even the university buses that shuttle students between campuses. Students have access to gyms, swimming pools, football fields, and golf course…

  21.12.2018

• ITMO Students' Facial Recognition System Wins 'Best Creative Solution' at Fintech Cup

  …recognition technologies. All you have to do is to direct a camera to a cardholder’s face, then the application recognizes it and transmits the data to the server. The neural network checks the face against the database and approves or rejects the transaction. The main advantage of the new method is that it protects users’ personal data such as their card and phone n…

  21.12.2018

• From Sunshine to Freezing Cold: An Ecuadorian’s Experience of Russia

  …portunities to study abroad. That’s why I started surfing the net for the best Russian universities that offered programs similar to mine. It’s worth noting that I only chose between St. Petersburg’s universities. I’ve been to Moscow as well, and I think that it’s a nice city and all, but I wouldn’t like to live there. When I found out that ITMO is the world’s only s…

  20.12.2018

• Affiliate-Friendly Advertising Network: Connecting Small Businesses and Clients

  …Affiliate-Friendly Advertising Network (the project’s working title) is a tool aimed at finding links between different eating spots, which incorporates a Big Data analysis algorithm. A user ‘checks in’ a bar or a cafe and the system automatically adds the place in their favorites list.   The QULLAB’s staff Arten Konukhov, Aleksandra…

  20.12.2018

• Virtual Influencers: What Are They?

  …ntenance duties provided they have all the necessary tools. In Russia, creating a single character with a simple set of movements will cost somewhere around 70,000 rubles (between 50 and 100 thousand; in Moscow, the price may get as high as 110-120 thousand). For that money, you’ll get an attractive, if emotionless, character capable of running, jumping and perfor…

  19.12.2018

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

  …ay, people don’t stop learning when their formal education is over. You can learn your whole life, acquire new skills, or even change your profession. There is no competition between online and face-to-face education, they are just different instruments with the same objective. I think that the best option is to use both in your learning process. Online courses ca…

  18.12.2018

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

  …g classical music as an intelligence-boosting tool has become to multiply. Meta-analyses (articles encompassing a host of different research findings) abound with comparisons between listening to Mozart and not listening to any music at all, which implies a range of various activities such as listening to audiobooks, reading, watching television, drawing, sitting in …

  17.12.2018