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• ITMO.STARS 2020 Winners: Who Are They?

  …ed up in the top five and received a grant to study abroad. It allowed me to get a job offer, team resources, and investments for my project. Now, I plan to work further on the functionality and ergonomics of the system's custom components, train artificial intelligence, and enter mass production. My product involves both software…

  06.10.2020

• Our Favorite Places to Experience Fall in St. Petersburg

• Epidemiologist Vasily Vlassov on Medical Problems Exposed by the Pandemic

  … unclear picture of what’s going on in healthcare. These problems occurred long before the pandemic, but it’s important to keep them in mind if you want to understand all the contradictions that occur in the media. “As you have probably heard, interventional cardiologists have been able to reduce the number of deaths caused by heart attacks in the past few years…

  06.10.2020

• You Can Fight the World and Win: ITMO Graduate Kirill Rivkin on DataArt, Studies in the US and His Startup

  … it is a lot like figure skating. To put it roughly, when you are seven, you have to go to a special school focusing on maths and physics. If you don’t do it, you don’t have the connections that will be crucial later. They determine whether your papers get cited and published, whether you get jobs and funding. Each year of your academic career is strictly delineated …

  05.10.2020

• KronBars Named Best Russian Student Sports Club for the Fourth Year in a Row

  …Association's projects throughout the season. The jury members commended how the club leaders navigated the lockdown situation: the KRONBARS.ONLINE project included nine interaction formats – a video training set, chess and poker tournaments, a running club and fitness challenges, as well as theme tests, webinars, and theoretical courses. It should be noted th…

  05.10.2020

• The Unexpectedly Superstitious Side of St. Petersburg

  …fter all, you do want your time in Russia to be lucky (and it’s also good for your hand-eye coordination): Fountain Ball Malaya Sadovaya St., 8 One of the street's main attractions is its fountain with a granite kugel ball spinning freely in jets of water. You should throw a coin into the fountain and then give the ball as many turns as the number of the ste…

  05.10.2020

• Comfort Foods to Try This Fall

  … slices, some ginger, cinnamon, and honey (or cherry syrup, which I got as a gift and had absolutely no idea how to use until now) all mixed together in a cup of hot water. This concoction makes a good companion for a long evening of classes, as the spices and lemon keep you attentive, while the honey and warmth make sure you are still at your most comfortable. Enjoy…

  02.10.2020

• Scientists Create New IR-Activated Coating for Local Drug Delivery

  …reover, it is much easier to prevent or suppress inflammation at an early stage. “I want to create such a coating that besides stimulating osteogenesis, would have additional functions, for example, antibacterial, or, as in our case, stimulate cell differentiation towards the formation of bone tissue,” says Svetlana Ulasevich, associate professor at ITMO Univers…

  02.10.2020

• Media Research Group’s Aleksandr Farseev On Advertising Algorithms and Social Network Monopolies

  …n see its results by looking at the targeting systems used by search engines and social networks worldwide. VK, Yandex, Google – they all have millions of users and billions of transactions. It’s hard to process this much data manually. In order to collect, moderate, and apply all this data, you need to use machine learning and other, more advanced, AI technologies. …

  01.10.2020

• New Historical Exposition Set to Open in Russia’s Oldest Science City

  …When you see an archival video or photo modified by modern technologies, in particular neural networks, you understand that it is about real people. The barrier created by the imperfection of media technologies is erased and you start to perceive the objects that are presented in a slightly different way. It can be used here as a kind of portal connecting the past wi…

  01.10.2020