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• ITMO Student Picked as Torchbearer of 2019 Winter Universiade

• Studying Russian in Russia

  …friends from the get-go and that sped up the process of being comfortable speaking the language, but grammar had to be learned in a class setting. Was it worth it? It certainly was for Jelicca from Serbia. “I met a lot of wonderful people, found my best friends, completely changed my life and found myself in [St. Petersburg].” I can’t imagine my life without…

  13.11.2018

• New York University Professor’s Take on Future of Digital Cities

  … public transport, road traffic and pedestrian flows, recycling, weather, air pollution, noise rates, population, social media, crime statistics, real estate, and so on. Certain information is harder to get, but it’s still pretty much available. Such information includes anonymized mobile data, Wi-Fi usage data, credit card transactions statistics, and anonymized …

  13.11.2018

• When VR met AR: ITMO University Students Created a SMARRt Robot with Lots of Potential

  …aging. The good thing is that we’ve managed to get a patent out of this painstaking work.” Evaluation of the project and its first successes Allowing students to obtain their first practical experience is the main goal of all practice-oriented R&D work. Participants develop unique skills such as how to fill in the paperwork, create technical proposals and…

  13.11.2018

• Do Smart Traffic Lights Dream of Self-Driving Cars? Traffic Expert Nil Podozerov Thinks So

  … smart traffic lights only in name and seem to not have a clue as to what the technology really is. I myself am very wary of this term. ‘Smart’ is more of a quality that pertains to a living organism, not a machine. But because our company has long been working on traffic lights with complex ‘stuffing’, I’ve attempted to find an optimal definition of what makes a …

  12.11.2018

• ITMO Scientists Win Scopus Award Russia 2018

  … out in Latin America, Asia, Europe and Russia. The amount of one’s publications is indexed through Scopus, the world’s largest interdisciplinary citation database which contains more than 23,000 scientific journals put out by 5,000 publishing houses from around the world. Data from Scopus is recognized by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education as on…

  09.11.2018

• Grant Applications No Longer a Headache: Potanin Scholarship Lifehacks from Successful Contestants

  …ays specify in your application the exact product you’re going to produce so that your results would always meet the requirements. Secure the backing (optional) Try to obtain your boss’s support and mention it in your application form. Find reliable team members and delegate responsibility Familiarize yourself with the award criteria Read the award cri…

  08.11.2018

• Biking to the Top: ITMO’s 9th International Council Meeting in Amsterdam

  …. The group then moved on to explore the Startup Village, an avant-garde business incubator which functions on the grounds of Science Park and consists of in-built shipping containers which act as coworking spaces for budding entrepreneurs. This jam-packed pre-meeting day laid the grounds for the main council meeting, which took place on November 4. All Intern…

  07.11.2018

• Cancer Survival Guide: Oncologist Ilya Fomintsev Gives Lecture at ITMO University

  …of tumor syndrome, which greatly raises the risk of cancer. If a gene gets broken, this leads to the development of a tumor. A tumorous cell stops reacting to signals and obtains new properties; it starts mutating at high speed, and sooner or later particular cells acquire the properties that let them become even more malignant and start metastasizing. Ther…

  07.11.2018

• Travel Tips: Exploring Riga

  … of the most well-preserved old towns in Europe, which may well be true, although it is pretty small compared to Tallinn’s Old Town, in large part due to the destruction it sustained in WWII with some buildings being razed to the ground. However, there are still quite a lot of real architectural gems there worth checking out. One of the most iconic landmarks of th…

  06.11.2018