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Celebration for Children Student Club: Bringing Smiles All Year Around
…nd you. Everyone has their own interests, we are so different, and this helps us create new exciting workshops. As for our performances, those are the result of long discussions. We try to bring all of our ideas together or find a compromise. What does a typical day of a volunteer look like? The workshops usually go like this: first, volunteers get in tou…
13.10.2020
How ITMO Researchers Are Using Speech Analysis to Diagnose Dementia and Parkinson's
…s: feature extraction and classification. Broadly speaking, the modeling system remembers each speech and linguistic unit and the corresponding marker, and makes general conclusions based on this data. As a result, it correlates the units used by the person with the emotion that they experience during the speech. After training, the system is tested on new recordings…
13.10.2020
How Coworking Spaces Help Remote Workers Stay on Track and Find New Friends and Colleagues
… top 10 of the Fontanka.ru’s Recognition and Influence award in the Cultural and Public Space nomination, and became the best flexible space in business according to the professional award of PROESTATE & TOBY AWARDS. George Shaginyan, developer at Dodo Franchising, LLC I graduated from ITMO’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty in 2015. In my t…
12.10.2020
Summing up ITMO Preaccelerator's First Workshop
… Whether it is a need for self-realization, recognition, personal freedom, comfortable and wealthy living, or a way to embody world-changing global ideas or to turn your passion into profit – it does not matter what exactly drives aspiring entrepreneurs. What’s important is to figure it out for yourself and make it your starting point. The three pillars of suc…
12.10.2020
Your Guide to Gaming in Fall-Winter of 2020
…0, 2020), Google Stadia You probably know about the series already, but just in case you don’t – it’s set in a world not unlike our own (this time you will get to roam a version of London) that proves to be extremely hackable. That’s right, you get to be a member of DedSec, a hacker group set to free the inhabitants of the city from a surveillance state tormenting…
09.10.2020
Battleships and Electrons: ITMO Student Develops a VR Game for Chemistry Students
…l and error method," she says. "Then designer Alexey Korotkikh joined our team and we started to work on the project itself. It was like playing Minesweeper. The biggest "explosion" happened in November. The game was almost ready but then the engine was updated and some of the functions disappeared. So, we had to search for an alternative." One of the bigges…
09.10.2020
Picture of the Week: A Holographic Image in the Augmented Reality System
… reality system includes a microprojector that forms the image and a special waveguide made out of photo-thermo-refractive glass (PTR). The waveguide ensures the image transmission from the microprojector to the user’s eye. The image remains sealed in the waveguide during this process. Holographic Bragg gratings are used in order to insert it from the microprojec…
09.10.2020
ITMO University Launches New Preacceleration Program
… the program with individual support by mentors. 100 of the most interesting projects will be granted an opportunity to present their idea to tracker mentors during a pitch session. Then, each out of seven mentors will choose projects to curate. “This time, a lot more applicants filled out the extended application form (which includes not only the general idea, …
08.10.2020
ITMO Graduate Dmitry 'Finargot' Plyusnin On His Career in Streaming and Russian Voice-over of Dota 2
…students, we played video games all the time, and even then I needed money. So, I tried to make money on online games, in particular, I traded different items. I also had a passion for voice acting. Right around the time I entered ITMO University, Lost tv-series was on air and I’d been doing a fan translation for it. I used to get up early and work on it just before …
08.10.2020
In a Nutshell: Genome Editing and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
… There are many genome editing methods; what makes CRISPR/Cas9 so special? Yes, there are many of them, but CRISPR/Cas9 does not only boast better efficiency and precision, but is also relatively easy to use. All these traits combined with its low cost quickly made it the most popular genome editing method. This seems to have something to do with GMO …
08.10.2020