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TECHNOHISTORY Project Showcases New Approaches to Historical Studies
…Open lab As part of the TECHNOHISTORY project, a laboratory will be launched at the Tochka Kipeniya (“Boiling Point”) coworking space. It will function both online and on-site, at the Lenpoligraphmash technopark. Researchers in the fields of biotechnology, ecology, robotics, art & science, as well as 3D and VR developers will join their forces at the laboratory un…
13.10.2020
How ITMO Researchers Are Using Speech Analysis to Diagnose Dementia and Parkinson's
…evice that could understand spoken numbers appeared in 1952. The development of this technology has made it possible to analyze not only the content of speech but also emotions, inflection, accent, psychophysical state, and other accompanying parameters. The science of paralinguistics studies the nonverbal characteristics of speech and its main focus is not on the co…
13.10.2020
How Coworking Spaces Help Remote Workers Stay on Track and Find New Friends and Colleagues
…veryone. Lack of the usual office discipline, daily schedules, and face-to-face communication with colleagues, the need to combine work and household chores, and deal with many distractions – all this has become a serious challenge for many newly remote workers. WeWork, an international flexible workplace network, and Hamilton Place Strategies, a consulting agency…
12.10.2020
Summing up ITMO Preaccelerator's First Workshop
…ion can help people or the outside world. And thirdly, when presenting your hypotheses, you need to take questions from the audience seriously as these will help clarify in which direction you can develop your idea further. As a result, the students formed eight teams and presented their projects aimed at solving the problems of ecology, foodtech, education, finan…
12.10.2020
Your Guide to Gaming in Fall-Winter of 2020
…who knows exactly how to cheer you up – CZ. Star Wars: Squadrons Release date: October 4, 2020 Platforms: PC, PS4, XBO Having cut their teeth developing the starfighter sections of Star Wars Battlefront II (2017), Motive Studios is now going all-in with this space sim. Although the game features an approx. 7-hour single-player campaign set in the Star War…
09.10.2020
Battleships and Electrons: ITMO Student Develops a VR Game for Chemistry Students
…tempt and decided to give it another shot but in a new format. "We came up with an idea to transfer this board game into virtual reality," recalls Mikhail Kurushkin. "The introduction of the VR technologies that automatically control what students have learned can assist professors in teaching the electronic structure of an atom to a large number of students at …
09.10.2020
Picture of the Week: A Holographic Image in the Augmented Reality System
…guide during this process. Holographic Bragg gratings are used in order to insert it from the microprojector into the waveguide – these gratings allow us to avoid total internal reflection and seal the light from the microprojector inside the waveguide. Once the light reaches the user’s eye, a similar set of holograms extracts the light from the waveguide and the …
09.10.2020
ITMO University Launches New Preacceleration Program
…or. The first graduates of the Preaccelerator have already received 5 million rubles in funding, won the Digital Breakthrough hackathon, started a digital revolution in the construction industry, and won a grant from Amazon Web Services and the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises. Educational program This year, almost 500 participan…
08.10.2020
ITMO Graduate Dmitry 'Finargot' Plyusnin On His Career in Streaming and Russian Voice-over of Dota 2
…d then I just found sponsors that funded my trips and equipment. I did comic features at the tournaments and they also sponsored my videos. But there were also other ways of interaction. In 2016 I took part in competitions in Lithuania for the Game show studio (now it is called E TV). From time to time, at some events like Igromir you can see sponsor stands. In a …
08.10.2020
Staff Spotlight: Daniel Nsengumuremyi, Rwanda
… become a scientist and food biotechnology was my passion, so I didn’t hesitate. What is your research topic? We’re working on the safety of grain raw materials in ethanol production. The main point was the application of sapropel — a sort of mud extracted from lakes or oceans. Our research samples are from a lake near Pskov. We modify the substance's antimicro…
08.10.2020