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Modern Visual Effects: Applications and Software
… usually spruced up by VFX artists. Apart from the film industry, VFX artists are also sought after in advertising and game development. History of VFX and the influence of science The first visual effects specialists in the film industry didn’t use computer technologies. In the first half of the 20th century, visual effects were based on such methods as stop m…
09.08.2019
How Games are Changing Education
…re the games where learning, or the acquirement of skills, are the main goal instead of entertainment. Besides education, the term is also applied to subjects such as defense, science, and healthcare. That, for instance, was the title of analytics firm Metaari’s 2018 report on the global game-based learning market. In their research, the company’s analysts forecas…
09.08.2019
Russian School Students Score a Resounding Victory at the 2019 International Olympiad in Informatics
…der Morozov, a graduate of the Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum №239, St. Petersburg; Vladimir Romanov, a graduate of Moscow State University’s Advanced Educational Scientific Center; and Egor Lifar, 10th-grade student of the “Intellectual” school in Moscow. According to the preliminary results, the Russian team scored four gold medals, taking first pl…
09.08.2019
Admission Campaign 2019 at ITMO University: Bachelor’s Programs
…tems and Technologies subject area: 303 points out of 310. The entrants’ average USE score was 99 points. Coming in second is the subject area Applied Mathematics and Computer Science with a 302-point threshold and an average USE score of 99.8. As of August 8, more than 400 students with an average score of 77.2 (2 points up from 2018) have enrolled in fee-based p…
08.08.2019
15 Talented Prospective Students Become Winners of 2019 ITMO.STARS Unique Achievements Contest
…n a number of different ways: with sound and light signals, or an information screen pointing to the whereabouts and approximate position of the object. Presenting her own scientific project was Polina Pereshivkina from Moscow. Titled “Dream House. The Psychology of Color”, her work explores the impact left by color on people’s perceptions and whether it is possi…
08.08.2019
ChemBio Cluster Master’s Students on Their International Internship Experience
…niversity; secondly, a good level of proficiently in English, which is a mandatory requirement for students going on an exchange abroad. Apart from that, the focus topic of my scientific advisor over at the University of Liège was very close to mine. After I’d written him a letter saying that I would like to work as part of his group, he readily agreed to take me on …
07.08.2019
Grad Platforma: User-Driven City Events Aggregator
Quizzing and Mythbusting: Medical Lab Initiative Comes to ITMO University
…Medical Lab is an event launched by the science popularization project Laba (from Russian “лаба,” student slang for a lab class – Ed.) after the success of its Open Lab project (held in 30 countries around the world on February 9, 2019, the Russian Science Day). Its aim is to give regular people an opportunity to test their basic knowle…
06.08.2019
Digital Identity: Current Trends and Future Prospects
…ructural elements are artificial intelligence (what we control), a digital model (how we control it), and a perceived environment. The current state of technology Today, scientists are developing several computer models of digital identities capable of formalizing the connections between the data points in their memory, forecast their state, and evaluate the re…
05.08.2019
ITMO University Scientists Present Record Amount of Works at the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference in Prague
…arch associate at the Information Technologies and Programming Faculty, to learn about the key research in the field of evolutionary computation, the GECCO conference and ITMO scientists’ work presented at the latter. ITMO University scientists are regular participants of the GECCO conference. What makes it different from others? …
05.08.2019