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• Scientists Learn To Predict Users' Preferences Based On Data From Social Networks

  …mostly hosts photos, Twitter is more about texts, though its users post photos as well, and Foursquare can provide more complex data that allows to track the user's movements, shares Andrey Filchenkov, Associate Professor at ITMO's Computer Technology Department and Head of the Machine Learning Group of the Computer Technologies laboratory. Surely, it would have been…

  18.08.2017

• Dave Vasquez: We Need To Start Teaching Entrepreneurship Back In School

  …tudent at that time? I graduated from school in Colombia, and then entered the Politecnico Grancolombiano university where I studied advertising and marketing. Yet, I can't share much about student life in Colombia, as I only studied there for a year and then moved to Russia. I came here in 2001, though not to St. Petersburg. I was part of a large group of Colo…

  17.08.2017

• Giant Paper Plane Dives in at Red Bull Flugtag

  …m members. "We pursued minimalism. We had to launch the plane, so we decided to make a big paper plane. Easy, maybe even too easy, yet no one came up with the same idea," shares Alexander.   ITMO's paper plane concept The team spent two hours making the blueprint and sent it to the qualifying round. Hundreds of applications are sent to the festival, a…

  17.08.2017

• IEEE Award Winner Slobozhanyuk: “There Are No Stupid Questions in Science”

  …en I tire of it I might switch to manual work: assemble something, conduct an experiment, make measurements. Maybe do some computer modeling. I’m never bored and I try to stay sharp. What are the stupidest and the smartest questions you’ve ever been asked about your research? A very smart person once told me this: when people are asking you about science, there…

  16.08.2017

• ITMO & Australian Scientists Contribute to Latest Nanophotonics Review

  …eld’s new trends. One will have the opportunity to see the online version of the issue right after the actual celebration of the magazine's anniversary in 2017," notes Yuri Kivshar, the issue's curator and professor emeritus of ITMO University. All of the authors for the anniversary issue believe that this review will have an impact on modern photonics, as it wi…

  16.08.2017

• Ecological Raids: International Ecocamp at Yagodnoe

  …rticipated in tours, lectures and workshops. For example, this year, there were seminars on waste sorting, recycling, alternative sources of energy, natural cosmetics, and foodsharing. There were specific parts of the program dedicated to social entrepreneurship and developing volunteer projects. This year’s Ecological Raids included a special project where partic…

  15.08.2017

• The Night of Light: Gatchina Hosts International Light Art Festival

  …, but act as some vector, the prism through which one can perceive any subject. During the festival, its guests could see scary dreams, dreams about love, art, and much more," shares Olga Orshanskaya, the festival's organizer. Having organized the Street Theater festival on Elagin Island and some other major events,  Olga Orshanskaya became this year’s head …

  15.08.2017

• SHA2017: Summer Camp for Hackers

  … by members of the international hacking community. Developers from all around the world come to events like this, most of them experts in information security. Here, they can share their experience, knowledge, experiments and get to know each other in an informal environment. They sleep, hack and have fun side by side – anyone can pitch a tent where they prefer to a…

  14.08.2017

• RoboCup-2017: ITMO School Team Gets Novice Award

  …ay, the Amazon Robotics Challenge is conducted in a similar manner and is also organized as part of the RoboCup. Our team is planning to focus on such contests in the future," shares Alexander Kapitonov. ITMO Student team This was the first time ITMO's Student Team participated in RoboCup's international round. According to its members, the most difficult par…

  10.08.2017

• Project Session at Sirius: Implants, Security and Nano-Shampoo

  …s-disciplinary field of science that includes physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, etc. Teams were to be formed of members with different skills and competencies,” – shares methodologist Mikhail Mukhin. According to the section’s staff, the key to this session’s success is the right choice of projects. All three projects were completed, each by its own…

  10.08.2017