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• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Kanonersky Island

  …From a bird's eye view, Kanonersky Island resembles a skinny herring, meanwhile its original name, Kissasaari, comes from Finnish and means Cat Island. Locals affectionately call it Canary – referring to the fancy Canary Islands – although the reality is far from a paradise resort. Instead of the Côte d'Azur there's the cold Gulf of Finland, and the first thing that …

  16.10.2020

• ITMO Researchers Win Grant for Development of Smart Glasses Components

  …des of optical microwave guides that are invisible to the user. In our project, we’ll be researching ways of modeling new types of augmented reality displays that would employ new functional optical elements that haven’t been available before.” Invisible patterns In order to turn glass into a screen, it must be perforated with special channels only severa…

  15.10.2020

• ITMO University Teams Reach the Finals of Digital Opera Contest

  …contest among media artists that has been a part of the festival for many years. Its participants have an opportunity to showcase their talents by creating high tech solutions in direction and set design of opera performances. Thanks to the contest, they can gain exposure, win, and find an internship or a job at one of the leading multimedia companies. The key featur…

  15.10.2020

• Staff Spotlight: Assel Romanova, Kazakhstan

  … help. Students can always contact me via Telegram, where we have a chat for extracurricular communication. It’s faster and more convenient than using email. How do you build connections with your students? I am always curious to learn about my students' plans and career choices. Some of them are already employed in mobile development, which is how I learn new …

  15.10.2020

• Harvard Professor Stefanie Stantcheva on the Role of Surveys and Experiments in Economy

  …nd principles. According to the professor, they enable researchers to ask people direct and open questions to reveal their motives. They also help predict citizens' acceptance or rejection of economic policies. “It is especially useful to see what result people expect, what they have already imagined, and how they formed their opinion about what this or that pol…

  15.10.2020

• ITMO Graduate Stanislav Krasnoyarov’s Journey From a Full-Time Employee to His Own Business

  …aying with creative elements and setting up an ad campaign. But no one will understand who our target audience is, what their needs are, what is important to them, and what their selection criteria are – and I'm not very good at it yet. Have I taken any courses? Yes, I have. Did they help me? Not so much. It is not that simple. Just courses are not enough, you nee…

  14.10.2020

• Scientists Explain Why Paradise State Is Hard to Reach

  …People think that hard science is engaged in numbers, mathematical abstractions, and non-living objects, while the humanities deal with people and society. Many believe that these two research areas don’t intersect. However, several fields of studies prove this to be wrong. One such field of studies is sociophysics. Researchers of this field analyze the processes tha…

  14.10.2020

• TECHNOHISTORY Project Showcases New Approaches to Historical Studies

  …Open lab As part of the TECHNOHISTORY project, a laboratory will be launched at the Tochka Kipeniya (“Boiling Point”) coworking space. It will function both online and on-site, at the Lenpoligraphmash technopark. Researchers in the fields of biotechnology, ecology, robotics, art & science, as well as 3D and VR developers will join their forces at the laboratory un…

  13.10.2020

• How ITMO Researchers Are Using Speech Analysis to Diagnose Dementia and Parkinson's

  …evice that could understand spoken numbers appeared in 1952. The development of this technology has made it possible to analyze not only the content of speech but also emotions, inflection, accent, psychophysical state, and other accompanying parameters. The science of paralinguistics studies the nonverbal characteristics of speech and its main focus is not on the co…

  13.10.2020

• How Coworking Spaces Help Remote Workers Stay on Track and Find New Friends and Colleagues

  …veryone. Lack of the usual office discipline, daily schedules, and face-to-face communication with colleagues, the need to combine work and household chores, and deal with many distractions – all this has become a serious challenge for many newly remote workers. WeWork, an international flexible workplace network, and Hamilton Place Strategies, a consulting agency…

  12.10.2020