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• AI And Science in Art at the EverArt Weekend Online Festival

  …in them. In truth, the project didn’t involve any complex algorithms, artificial intelligence, or even the slime mold (Physarum polycephalum) itself. A text generator created random messages, the personalization was an illusion, and the fortune teller itself an ironic speculation; a play on the science-mania and the naive faith in miracles that coexist contradictoril…

  08.07.2020

• Experience St. Petersburg Like a Local: Petrogradsky District

  …you’ll find yourself at Karpovka, a small river wide enough just for the reflections of the houses on both of its sides. The area that stretches to the right was once a half-abandoned yacht club but, thanks to the efforts of the local community, last year it underwent a thoughtful makeover and was turned into a shaded promenade complete with sculptures and places to …

  07.07.2020

• Internet as a Neural Network and Distance Sensations: 101.All in One Festival of Technological Art

  …k in 1980, Fractal Flesh, a 1995 performance spectators of which could remotely control the artist’s body, and 2002 Movatar, in which the artist’s movements were commanded by randomly generated artificial intelligence sequences. His main message is that humanity is long overdue for a review of the concepts of identity and subjectivity, as well as the relationship bet…

  26.06.2020

• Top Five: Podcasts Against Boredom

  …lark and Dave Shumka. Each week, the Vancouver comedians invite over a hilarious guest to discuss a hodgepodge of things, from said guest’s life journey to current affairs to random tweet breakdowns. All this results in SPY combining a sense of a perfect getaway with biting topicality, and listeners hoping that the hosts will never stop, err, podcasting themselves. …

  19.06.2020

• School Student from St. Petersburg Becomes First Author of Article Published in Leading Chemistry Journal

  … Veronika also had to learn how to make a report and present it to the public in a very short time. “Veronika did very good at the conference, and even prepared handouts, a periodic table where in every cell of an element, there was a flag of the country where it had been discovered,” says Mikhail Kurushkin. “This table became part of the participant’s …

  11.06.2020

• Collaboration and Openness Highlighted at ITMO University’s International Council Meeting

  …generating insight.  “What do you get if you put an international think-tank together in a Zoom meeting across 17 (!) time zones? A big mess? A cacophony of disconnected random remarks? No, nothing like that!” writes the Council member Peter Sloot, the scientific director of the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Advanced Study and a  professor at ITMO Univ…

  11.06.2020

• This Stay-At-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: More Theater & Opera Performances

  … itself to be “as intoxicating as the cheap wine passed off by a traveling huckster as the potent love potion of the title,” the story follows Adina, the beautiful but fickle landowner, and Nemorino, her clumsy but lovable admirer, through the ups and downs of their love story. What we can watch this weekend is a brilliant 2018 production by Bartlett Sher starring Pr…

  27.05.2020

• ITMO Highpark: All About ITMO University's Cutting-Edge New Campus

  …those companies, while joint research projects with major partners would help build a foundation for the development of science in fields that are new for the university. Abandoning the classic approach to research and education became a major challenge for the university. A lack of competencies needed to tackle a project of such scale – in terms of both content a…

  27.05.2020

• A Quantum Walk Forward: Researchers Find Way to Discern Cases of Effective and Ineffective Quantum Computation

  …There is such a concept in modern mathematics as “random walks.” It describes a series of changes that happen on a probability basis according to some rule set. A classic example is what happens to a bead on the so-called Galton board. “The Galton board seems quite simple: you’ve got a vertical board with rows of pegs sticking out,” says Aleksandr Alodjants, a p…

  20.05.2020

• Our Ideas for Dealing with Social Distancing

  …te resource, and I’m hardly even joking; Animal Crossing – great but then in a moment of weakness gave my Switch Lite away to my exams-ridden sibling), one day I just started randomly sketching on a piece of paper and was surprised by just how well it allowed me to block the world out for an hour or two. I may not be very good at it, but it’s blissfully distracting a…

  19.05.2020