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ITMO.STARS Winners Share Their Experience
…economist. Many people ask me why I chose this university if I’m not going to work with robots and AI, but to my mind, there will still be demand for people who can negotiate between customers and producers, and that’s who I’m going to be. Elizaveta Punchenko, St. Petersburg Participant of numerous scientific conferences, author of two State Commission for …
17.09.2018
Stolovaya: Eating Lunch Like a Russian
…uce. Still room on your tray? You can’t leave without dessert or at least a vatrushka - a sweet pastry with cottage cheese center - that you can stash for that break between the classes. To wash everything down you go for some boring soda or try compote instead. Served in glasses, it’s a bright fruity drink often with tiny pieces of apples or berries. …
17.09.2018
Developing an Automated Approach to Recycling and Sorting Waste
… if there would be more citizens who do sort their waste, there will be more companies that are ready to recycle it,” comments Inna Sosunova, PhD student at the Department of Network and Cloud Technologies and one of the project’s authors. In the future, the scientists plan to fix waste containers with sensors that will also measure air temperature, humidity, co…
13.09.2018
DataArt Global Study: What are Russian Programmers Best At?
…n players completed is six, which is just a little bit higher than in other countries (5.5). Just like in the rest of the world, most developers in Russia are men aged between 25 and 34 (more than 67% of all programmers). At the same time, the amount of women playing Skillotron in Russia is slightly lower than in most other countries: only 13%, while the world…
13.09.2018
Transcending Humanity: Evolution of Technological Art
…have always worked with technological discoveries of their time to capture historical developments and speculate about the future. With decades passing, this symbiosis between art and science becomes more and more convoluted. While even the most progressive 17th-18th century thinkers stayed within the realm of classical philosophy with its key questions of wha…
12.09.2018
Project RENOIR and Digitalization in the News Industry
…es available for media companies with research partners and new ways of producing profit; traditional media usually lacks know-how due to a lack of financing, but cooperation between research labs and the media could be a solution. RENOIR News outlets test and introduce new technologies into their everyday procedures with increasing frequency, sometimes wi…
11.09.2018
Scientists Create New Magnetic Nanosphere For Efficient Drug Delivery
…tive the new particles are. To do this, they artificially created a model plasma clot, added magnetite nanospheres with thrombolytic drug inside, and observed the interaction between the clot and the nanospheres via an optical microscope. Nanospheres were directed at the thrombus using magnetic field. A complete lysis of the thrombus took 620 minutes to effect. …
10.09.2018
Living in Russia Crash Course
…d a local registration. ITMO will help you with yours, but we thought you might like to know how the process works. Transport Saint Petersburg has a vast transportation network that is easy to pay for and use. You can get around town using the metro (“so deep it goes below the permafrost”), buses, trams, trolleybuses, commercial minibuses called “marshrutka” an…
10.09.2018
Disability and Accessible Environment: Participants of Exchange Program on Japan’s Best Practices
Internship at MIT: Active Learning, Virtual Reality, and Entrepreneurial Skills
…e students who are taught using only traditional methods have a higher risk to fail their exams. What is also important, using this approach allows teachers to reduce the gap between the more and less successful students. Active learning is a form of learning in which lectures are divided into small chunks, 10-15 minutes long each, and interspersed with discus…
07.09.2018