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ITMO.STARS Winners Share Their Experience
…eacher’s role, but you are also responsible for what you learn. Where to find motivation? I know a very simple system: just spend half an hour every day doing something you want to master. Just 30 minutes. It’s not that much, even if you have a busy schedule. Talking about the professions of the future, I think it’s all about science and technologies. We can al…
17.09.2018
Stolovaya: Eating Lunch Like a Russian
…sar salad with grated Parmesan. Doesn’t sound like a school cafeteria? Back when we were students, stolovaya - or old-school Soviet cafeteria - was the last place you wanted to have lunch. It smelled like daycare and the tea served from a giant kettle looked like mop water. You ate there if you were too exhausted to walk a block to a real cafe. But t…
17.09.2018
Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines: An Unexpected Experience
…us. Still, it wasn’t until I attended the recent ITMO.GO event that I decided to check the place out: I was quite amused by the popularity of the retro games booth, and really wanted to try something of the sort. I remember playing a Soviet arcade machine one time when I was a little kid. The bulky, loosely colored device with an old CRT display and a single strop…
14.09.2018
Password-Protected Labs on the Red Sea Shore: KAUST Photonics Summer School
… who decided to stay, including two other Russian students. KAUST is a very open university that puts in a great effort in attracting students to its PhD positions. Candidates wanting to join only had to prove their English language proficiency by passing an IELTS test and an interview. Only students were eligible to apply for the KAUST Photonics summer school. My…
14.09.2018
ITMO University’s National Center for Cognitive Technologies Holds its First Session
…ederal University and others) and organizations interested in the use of machine learning and cognitive technologies (ITMO Highpark, Skolkovo Foundation, and others). “We want the consortium to work towards practical solutions for issues faced by our partners in the fields of IT and artificial intelligence. ITMO University is at the core of the consortium’s func…
14.09.2018
Developing an Automated Approach to Recycling and Sorting Waste
…W and studying the business processes in this field. As a result, we understood that there’s no common system that would’ve allowed to automate MSW recycling. What is more, we want to use our new platform to promote waste sorting. There are many citizens who want to do that, but it’s inconvenient for them because getting to a collection…
13.09.2018
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 15-16
…learn more about these extraordinary instruments and even play them! The concert starts at 3pm. Tickets cost 250-450 rub and can be purchased right before the event. Always wanted to learn some traditional Korean dances? Or listen to gayageum music? Or maybe learn to cook kimchi or Korean noodles? Then the Korean Culture Day is exactly the event for you! Listen to…
12.09.2018
Transcending Humanity: Evolution of Technological Art
…t spheres of both art and life: laypeople frequent galleries and museums to get in touch with contemporary art, while more and more artists choose to pursue this direction and want to learn all about how they could use technologies to boost their work. Modern scientific breakthroughs create a new kind of language which artists can draw on, but, however interesting an…
12.09.2018
ITMO’s New Academic Degree System: What You Need to Know
… What is more, having publications in scientific journals indexed by international databases such as Scopus and Web of Science is now an essential requirement for students who want to defend their theses at ITMO University. What about appeal claims? Who is going to handle them? Ensuring the transparency of the entire procedure is among the most important tasks …
12.09.2018
Do It Yourself: How to Start Projects from Scratch and Make a Career out of Your Hobby
… always easy to work in teams. Some programmers and engineers find it much easier to work alone, rather than in a team. Many people believe that in our capitalist world if you want to get something you have to pay for it. In fact, it doesn’t necessarily work this way. We promote the idea that you don’t always have to buy specialists but can cooperate with them instea…
11.09.2018