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• ITMO University and Yandex Launch New Master’s Program in Data Analytics

  … with other universities,” comments Evgenia Kulikova, head of Academic Programs Service at Yandex. The program’s structure A total of 21 students will be able to enroll as part of the program’s first intake: 16 will be tuition-free and 5 will study on a fee-paying basis. The curriculum is intended for those with a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or …

  14.04.2020

• Do Comfort Food Like a Russian

  …ound that subjects were more likely to feel comforted if they had eaten chicken soup as a child. So when they were offered it again in a lab setting, that familiarity played a role in evoking a sense of comfort and safety, while keeping loneliness at bay.  A lot of people also find enjoyment in the meditative aspects of cooking because it makes them focus on the t…

  13.04.2020

• ITMO University Scientists Create App to Calculate COVID-19 Infection Risks Based on Human Behavior

• Researchers Demonstrate a Platform for Future Optical Transistors

  …It is widely known that transistors, key elements of the modern digital world, function thanks to the controlled motion of electrons. Electric currents are used to process, code and transmit information in PCs, smartphones, TVs, and many other devices. This method has been used for decades, but it has several drawbacks. First, electronic devices tend to heat up when …

  13.04.2020

• How Reading and Literature Changed in the Digital Age

  …important is how it’s understood. An object of high culture, Anna Karenina, for example, can be interpreted as a dime novel about an unfortunate love affair. As philosopher Roland Barthes said, the author is dead. The moment a book leaves the publishing house, its author loses their power over it. You can’t even say that the author knows better what they were sayi…

  10.04.2020

• Entrepreneur Evgeny Mutovkin on Helping Volunteers and Cooperating with His Alma Mater

  …my reminding them about it. It did pan out that way – others remember me and reach out to me, and that makes me very glad. When did you study at ITMO University? I enrolled in 2013 and stopped my studies in 2017. I didn’t graduate but rather left on my own volition.  Just when you were almost finishing? Yes, I think I only had one year to go. Some may…

  10.04.2020

• It Is Lies that Spread Panic: ITMO PhD Student on Automated Identification of Fake News

  …ormation noise but also teach users to rely on trustworthy data and hence improve the quality of their economic and social decisions. By all means, this instrument of news control shouldn’t be available to just any user, or we’ll get negative results. It would be better if it worked without a user’s participation, much like an antivirus, by cutting out everything tha…

  10.04.2020

• How to Follow a Healthy Diet During Self-Isolation

  … FatSecret is an absolutely free app with a simple interface: it counts the amounts of calories, protein, fat, and carbs, as well as sugar, salt (sodium), fiber, and cholesterol. Among the apps available in Russian language, there is, for example, Zozhnik, created by the most specific Russian media about healthy lifestyle. Other than a calorie counter and food/t…

  07.04.2020

• ITMO University Starts Competition for Over 470 Academic Vacancies

• Entrepreneur Vaagn Ogannisian: Businesses Must Make Friends With Universities

  …o years at the same factory as my parents. It’s a massive facility, much larger than Tinkoff. But in 2008, I decided to move back to St. Petersburg to study and work here. I enrolled in a PhD program and started working at the Vaclav brewery. Brewing is the pillar of our business. We launched a mini-factory and got all the equipment to allow us to serve beer of our o…

  03.04.2020