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• Maps to Rovers: the History of Mars Exploration

  …sh conditions, Mars can boast some beautiful canyons, in which scientists still hope to find liquid water, but no luck so far. It’s also home to the Solar system’s largest mountain, Olympus. No one has gone as far as to measure its exact height, but we know that it’s around 27,000 meters (compare that to Mount Everest’s measly 8,848). Observing Mars: why is it so …

  08.01.2019

• January 7th: Russia Celebrates Christmas

  …y’s festive spirit is going to any of the Christmas fairs around the city. Though most have already been working for days, it is on Christmas that they offer some special entertainment programs; just check some major venues or sites such as the Spit of Vasilievsky Island, New Holland, or Pionerskaya square. Still, if you want a more genuine experience, it is bette…

  04.01.2019

• Our New Year’s Resolutions

  …Maria: New Year’s resolutions aren't really my thing. I'm feeling pretty fine about myself and my life most of the time, and I'm not used to waiting until a certain date to change what I don’t like, but if you ask... This year, my New Year’s resolution will be to stubbornly be myself. Eat tasty food, sleep a lot, take care of my loved ones, and admit my mistakes with…

  03.01.2019

• Digital Trends of 2019, Part One: AR, Chatbots and Big Data

  … community have had such a desire to force this on the market without any real demand. Whilst there are some sectors like healthcare that might be able to adopt VR, as an entertainment vehicle, it won’t work. This is down to the lack of compatibility, the cost and the customer apathy associated with it. I anticipate that it will perhaps lead the way for third generat…

  03.01.2019

• Movie Fridays: Festive Edition

  …es’s Diary is a feast of slapstick humor peppered with reckless jokes and chucklesome predicaments, a great artifact of the modern British culture, as well as a light and entertaining watch highly complementary to a festive movie night. Love Actually One of Richard Curtis’ most acclaimed, and divisive, works, a 2003 Christmas-themed bittersweet romantic com…

  28.12.2018

• Creative Technologies: A New Core Course at ITMO University

  …s, one for each five-person team, including topics such as “Transformation of urban objects for the improvement of accessibility”, “Interactivity in education as a means of sustainable development”, “Systematization of urban data with consideration of citizen activity levels”, and “Robotization for environmental purposes”. We picked topics that reflected relevant soc…

  28.12.2018

• New Year’s Resolutions and How to Keep Them

  … this simple trick, you start thinking outside of the box and may find something you have thought about for a long time, but never placed importance on. “In this case, certain emotional and metaphorical techniques may come in handy; for example, metaphorical cards. It works like that: you take a card and explain what thoughts it evokes in you. If it doesn’t work…

  27.12.2018

• HAKORA: Building a Business in the Field of AR

  … you help them. Roman Shiplyakov: We chose to focus on B2B: it is more relevant for our cause, as it lets us work with serious cases. VR technologies are often used in entertainment, the games industry, for instance. Most educational cases are bound to some particular place and have a high level of localization. At the same time, we have a technology that can be s…

  26.12.2018

• ITMO University Awards Its First Academic Degrees

  …radition. As for my defense, I'd say that on one side, the procedure became simpler, but on the other, due to it being a new thesis board and a new format, there was much uncertainty. Still, despite the novelty of the procedure, everything went well for me. I knew some of the board's members, but not all of them. I looked up information about every member in a…

  25.12.2018

• New Year's Gifts Russian Style

  …or New Year’s,” my grandma would say, heading to the store. The people who have it the worst are doctors, teachers, and distant friends, who are destined to end up with mountains of chocolates or perfume (an option I never understood; because how would you possibly know their favorite smell?). If you’re thinking about what to get for your Russian friends, consi…

  24.12.2018