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• ITMO Launches New Master’s Program ‘Bioeconomics and Resource Management’

  …00 new jobs. Green economy education A number of countries can boast significant experience in the implementation of educational programs focused on green economy and sustainable development. In Finland, the Natural Resources Institute (LUKE) has established the Boreal Green Bioeconomy program. Finland itself has remained a major player in the field of Bioecono…

  20.12.2018

• University of South Carolina Professor on Development of Anticancer Drugs

  …o achieve a clear identification of the catalytic crevice that binds the natural small-molecule ligand (a chemical compound which enters in a complex with proteins, causing certain effects as a result). The development of effective anticancer drugs also depends on the correct identification of molecule classes. The key term to know here is pharmacophore. It de…

  19.12.2018

• Virtual Influencers: What Are They?

  … The Village, Strike’s prototype Sasha Panika shared that many people, including a 3D-modeler, a digital artist, a scriptwriter, and several photographers, are involved in maintaining her digital twin. According to Panika, Asya’s most difficult parts are her emotions and hair; all in all, it took three months to create the model. Denis Stolyarov, Chief Enginee…

  19.12.2018

• ITMO University in 2018: A Year in Review

  …he QS Ranking in Computer Science, and even took the first place among all Russian universities in the THE Computer Science Subject Ranking. And in the global rankings, it maintained its hold while improving various indicators, namely reputation in the academia and the industry, as well as citation rates and internationalization efforts, placing 511-520 in QS World U…

  18.12.2018

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

  …to get in-depth knowledge will find face-to-face interaction with a teacher more beneficial, but online courses still have their place in the educational process as a way of obtaining general knowledge or an overview of a topic. Stanislav Reznikov, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics, author of the online courses ‘Fundamentals of Int…

  18.12.2018

• Andrei Maiboroda, Writer and Entrepreneur: If You Work a Lot, You Are Destined to Succeed

  …ne of the major problems that we are yet to bring up is improper planning, planning that is not farsighted enough. By planning for just three years ahead, you can't build a sustainable company. Today's media often promote a thesis that our world changes too fast and you shouldn't plan anything ahead. I wonder whether it's some plot or just plain stupidity. In any con…

  18.12.2018

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

  …d right cerebral hemispheres, enabling communication between them. However, scientists still haven’t figured out what is cause and what is effect here. Maybe some people can obtain thick auditory cortex simply by birth, not by musical exercise. In this case, experimental research can be really helpful. For example, you can select some people who have never did mus…

  17.12.2018

• University of Twente’s Stefano Stramigioli: Robotics Is About Giving Machines Life

  …t’s your take on that? These conversations have been going on for quite some time; I even had a TED talk about this. The issue is that society and mass media have certain misconceptions about the capacities of technology. Many get their ideas of technology from science fiction, and people tend to associate robotics with AI. Another misconception is that the…

  17.12.2018

• InnoJam "TimeHack": Real Options Theory and Machine Learning

  … wasn't exactly well-defined, a proper way to go was to use the methods of design thinking, work on the problem's statement, immerse into the expert's real agenda, and first attain a better understanding of the task at hand. We also had to consider several scenarios of solving the problem. Doing that was easy thanks to the event's format, as the methods of design thi…

  14.12.2018

• Movie Chitter-Chatter: Pride and Prejudice

  …ut more about debauches, orgies, perverts, and other unlawful stuff. Guess that’s what he sees in our timeless classic. Or it was Colin Firth’s pitiful effort to make it in Britain. Pitiful, I tell you. Speaking of Colin Firth. An ideal Mr. Darcy? Mr. Darcy and his whole wife-seeking shebang is an embodiment of the patriarchal society and therefore is repulsiv…

  14.12.2018