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

  …ntial candidates back then (referring to the 2016 US presidential election – Ed.). Other candidates ended up with correct predictions, but Trump didn’t. It means that our precision was higher than 80%. What does it tell us? It tells us that the model was working well, but Trump’s demographic qualities didn’t match his psychographic behavior. If we take a look at Trum…

  01.10.2020

• Smart Cane and Quantum Physics In Water Drops: Projects by ITMO Students at Youth Awards in Science and Innovations Finals

  …om ITMO’s Faculty of Cryogenic Engineering Dilnaz Akhyarova and Maksim Nazin got fourth place for their project “Robotized smart cane for visually imparied people with transmission of geolocation on request and identification of obstacles” . And Bachelor’s students of the Faculty of Physics and Engineering Vladimir Igoshin, Maria Zimokha, and Anastasia Nikitina got i…

  01.10.2020

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

  … space medicine Leon Orbeli holds a special place among the representatives of the Pavlov school.  “He was the successor of Pavlov's ideas and had his own scientific vision,” says Larisa Andreeva, head of the Memorial Museum. “Orbeli left his mark in science and founded the largest (after Pavlov’s) physiological school. His credo was evolutionary physiology a…

  01.10.2020

• Staff Spotlight: Mingzhao Song, China

  …n place, I started a Master's at ITMO, changing my major to learn more about photonics and physics. Later, I got a PhD and now I'm working as a researcher in the Microwave Division in the Faculty of Physics and Engineering. Upon my arrival in Russia, I already decided to stay for my PhD, so it sounds like quite a consecutive period, but I didn't expect to stay after …

  01.10.2020

• ITMO University and Gazprom Neft Launch Energy Club

  …r entry level, as long as their scientific and inventive initiatives can interest the company. “Our club will help develop the student community and improve the professional competence of our students,” says Nikolai Drachev, an ITMO University student and head of the club. “The club’s highlight is that we are interested in tech startups. Students with a mini…

  30.09.2020

• ITMO Team Wins VolgaCTF

  … ready for them, which made it easier to cope. For example, last year, the bot that checked the availability of services didn’t work correctly, which spoiled the overall impression from the event – this year, there was no such problem. But they still postponed the start by an hour and a half.  On the whole, VolgaCTF is mid-level by the international standards. But…

  30.09.2020

• 100 Free Courses from Coursera: Seize the Opportunity

  …ntroduction to Dialogflow and Google Cloud Platform, but there’s not enough time and equipment to complete the assignments. Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals for AWS Professionals  Organizer: Google Cloud Target audience: AWS solution architects and SysOps administrators familiar with AWS features and setup Language: English + English, Spanish, Russian, …

  29.09.2020

• ITMO Researchers Develop Unique Printing Technology for Invisible Images

  …expounds Alexander Vinogradov. “Taking all of this into account, we modify the ink and choose its concentration so that the nanoparticle dynamics, as well as their mutual repulsion and attraction wouldn’t allow them to distribute chaotically, and would only support their parallel orientation in relation to each other.” This way, we can print any image – num…

  29.09.2020

• Are Russians a Gambling Nation?

  …s phenomenon was largely reflected in literature. One of the most famous stories about it, The Queen of Spades, was written by Alexander Pushkin. A young man’s unreasonable passion with which he tries to find out the secret to winning a card game leads him to a terrible fate. According to Yuri Lotman, a prominent researcher of cultural history, gambling in the ear…

  28.09.2020

• ITMO’s Cultural Navigation Course: Lectures, Challenges, and Quests

  …Petersburg, understanding of its cultural diversity, and the desire to continue navigating St. Petersburg's culture.”  The program is primarily focused on active immersion in the cultural environment, interactive classwork, and interdisciplinary collaboration. By creating their works and participating in project activities, students can actively use not only…

  28.09.2020