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• MY.TECH Festival 2018

  …etersburg’s courtyards. We launched this project in July 2017. During the first two months, we made hypotheses and conducted customer development interviews. At first, we just wanted to create a car identification system for special vehicles, but this idea didn’t work out, so we made a few changes and came up with a new idea”, shares Nikolay Kulikov, the manager of t…

  07.06.2018

• Bridge Watching in St. Petersburg

  …This may sound strange, but according to St. Petersburg’s initial planning, there shouldn’t have been any bridges in the city: Peter the First, its founder, wanted it to become the “Northern Venice”, and banned bridges so that citizens would use boats instead. As great as that may sound, the idea never really worked out, and some hundred years after Peter’s death, th…

  05.06.2018

• ITMO Launches Entertainment Show About Science and Tech

  …autumn, when one of our partners suggested launching a series of lectures with scientists. But the thing is, there are already quite a lot of such events in St. Petersburg. We wanted something new”, says Valentina Levchenko, PR specialist for the Event Management Office at ITMO University. Eventually, the team came up with something completely different from…

  05.06.2018

• Writing Scientific Articles: Guide For Dummies

  … discussion and body of knowledge on some issues. Apart from that, you have to state the purpose of your research, that is to answer the question about which problems you want to solve and come to some conclusion. Some people think that a conclusion is just a summary of what they have written about, but it’s not that simple. A conclusion is an answer to the ques…

  04.06.2018

• “People Need You!” Junior: Social IT Projects for Schoolchildren

  … Over the summer, they plan to move their website to a good hosting platform and improve it further, so that it will become even handier and informative. Apart from that, they want to encourage more school students to take part in such events. Anastasiia Sorokina, a member of the team, says that this contest is a great opportunity to acquire teamwork skills, and i…

  01.06.2018

• Science Communication Research from American Journalists

  …write about how a technology works, who invented it, how it will influence our lives in the future - still, it is a story about the interaction of man and technology that they want to hear. It is through the lens of such interaction that we can understand how science and technology advance. It is also important to pay attention to details: for example, when talking t…

  01.06.2018

• How Your Brain Makes Decisions

  …o get a small amount of money on the spot or get a bigger sum later. In 2004, Samuel McClure assumed that the emotional system associated with the accumbens nucleus (System 1) wants to get the money as soon as possible, but there’s also an evolutionally new region of the brain - the frontal region - that can think conceptually about future goals (System 2). The resea…

  31.05.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: June 2-3

  …This Saturday, June 2, the Monrepos Park (Vyborg) will host the Lilac Day. As you might know, “Mon repos” means “my rest”, and this place is perfect for those who want take time away from the city noise and enjoy a magnificent view. With hundreds of lilac trees all blooming at once, the park will turn into a kingdom of flowers. Take a stroll through the park, attend …

  30.05.2018

• ITMO.Online: How to Profit from Finishing an Online Course

  … a university competition (check rules in Russian) devised for any bachelor, master and postgraduate student who has successfully completed a  course on an online platform and wants to get the cost of the certificate of completion compensated. To participate in the contest, one has to submit an electronic application to ISU: the Personal Portfolio application - th…

  30.05.2018

• Future Culture Lab: Artists and Scientists Present Their Vision of Tomorrow

  …ors at this museum apply a special substance onto their skin in order to experience these objects and understand the nature of things that are long gone. The project’s authors want their contemporaries to do the same: to consider the reasons why headphones or coffee will one day become unnecessary. Creators of the project “Sensorium” have developed a prototype…

  30.05.2018