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Get Lucky Like a Russian
…My husband, Bob, once learned the cornerstone concept of the Russian approach to life over a game of pool. “I know why you do what you do,” he told me, holding his cue stick. “You know how you love to whack at the pool balls and see if any go in? And it used to drive me nuts? Well, now I know. It’s called ‘avos.’” Avos, my absolute favorite, is the Russian conc…
03.12.2018
Dobby, Russian-Style
…you can’t get your neighbors to pet-sit it. They tell me they poured him a ton of cookies and he somehow pulled through… Then I notice a bag of cookies and crackers in the corner. I ask, “So is that supplies for Zakhar?” And what they tell me turns my world upside down. I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry or how to express appropriate emotions because I can…
26.11.2018
ITMO Master’s Students Win National Lighting Design Competition
… individuals. As people pass them, the light becomes brighter, “escorting” people along the tunnel while also letting them know if anyone is coming towards them from around a corner. Light Navigation Solution for Pedestrian Underpass, Vyborgskaya Metro Station. Included on the top-10 list in the Best Design of Indoor Lighting category. Master’s students Irina A…
22.11.2018
National Technology Revolution 20.35: Universities as Driving Force of Change
…iversity is a platform that allows for creating the perfect blend of traditional education opportunities and novel trends such as individual educational tracks, which are the cornerstone of the educational model we propose. We make it possible for students to build their own educational paths from online courses, unique learning materials, classical disciplines and e…
16.11.2018
BIOCAD VP Roman Ivanov: “Biotechnologies are the Cornerstone of Medicine of Tomorrow”
ITMO Student Picked as Torchbearer of 2019 Winter Universiade
…ow, and St. Petersburg is the cultural capital and a very beautiful city, too. Having lived four years in a dorm in the Petrogradskaya District, I’ve explored every hidden corner there. When I meet up with friends, they sometimes invite me to go to a bar with them; I come along, even though I don’t drink. Sometimes I’ll order myself a kvass or some tea and a lot o…
14.11.2018
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 3-5
…ams, and a gigantic luminescent replica of the Moon, which will be surrounded with robots celebrating the event with a lively boogie. Squeeze in a visit to a mystical garden adorned with creepy animal figurines and then head straight to the alley lit up by the flickers of 500 lanterns to take a photo for the occasion and calm your nerves a bit. The program doesn’t…
31.10.2018
ITMO Student Talks Urban Development in Northern Cities
…e them on board. It’s not expensive. It’s only in the developing countries that people concern themselves with making cities comfortable to live in. Europe has turned this corner long ago, they now have other problems to worry about: global warming, climate change, the depletion of the ozone layer. They’ve already worked out the local issues and are now turning th…
30.10.2018
ITMO Scientist Vladislav Gromov: We Want to Make Robots Help People, Not Replace Them
…g processes, but, rather, on facilitating their work, in terms of strenuous physical activities, for example. I don’t think that the task of transferring heavy boxes from one corner to another is suitable for humans. Robots, on the other hand, can easily do this for us. That’s what we’re doing in the laboratory: we’re trying to harmonize the joint effort of humans an…
24.10.2018
ITMO University Hosts BPO'2018 Conference
…. This conference is important not only because people acquire 70 to 80% of information through eyesight, but also because it is optical information technologies that are the cornerstone of many breakthrough solutions today, and thousands of teams all over the world are currently working on replacing electrons with quants, copper cables with optical fiber, and switch…
18.10.2018