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• Data Science for Culture, Toxicity, and New Perception of Time: Researchers of New Media Discuss Trends in Digital World

  … as the key humanities’ phenomenon of the 21st century. The event’s special guest was Lev Manovich, a theoretician of new media and digital culture and a professor of Computer Science at City University of New York, the founder of the Software Studies Initiative laboratory. The expert spoke about a new research project conducted in collaboration with the University o…

  28.06.2019

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: AI at the Hermitage

  … curated by Dimitri Ozerkov, who combines his duties as Director of the Contemporary Art Department at the Hermitage with serving as Head of ITMO University’s innovative Art & Science Program. Sun Xun: Time Spy from White Rabbit Collection on Vimeo. My perception started to shift quite literally while watching Time Spy video installation by a Chinese artist…

  28.06.2019

• ChemBio Cluster’s Small Innovative Enterprise Innocolloid Started Paying Dividends to ITMO

  …support. Another important factor was the strong interest that the students of the Cluster expressed to be part of practice-oriented research projects aimed at introducing the scientific results achieved at the unit into viable commercial products. The solution was to expand the Cluster’s scientific focus to the industrial level. “…

  28.06.2019

• Leading the Way: 10th ITMO International Council Meeting Focused on Entrepreneurship and Tech Transfer

  …sing the Council are leading international experts who meet twice a year to review and advance ITMO’s progress over a wide range of key aspects forming the global educational, scientific and entrepreneurial agenda of today. Taking up the mantle from the previous meeting held in November of 2018 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, this gathering welcomed a new member in…

  27.06.2019

• IMS, DTGS and EVA: Key Events of the Information Society and Technology Week

  …n access, and the DTGS’s digest was published on Springer where the access is controlled by the publishing company. “The IMS conference is devoted to the idea of open science. DTGS was created as not just a platform for opinion exchange and an attempt to communicate the results of Russian researchers to the international scient…

  27.06.2019

• Twitch, Twitter and Depression: Young Researchers Present Their Projects at ITMO University Poster Session

  …h covers similar topics. Participating in such conferences never fails to inspire me: you discuss your work and always get feedback with constructive criticism. Forum of Young Scientists provided me with lots of valuable advice on the technical aspects of my research.  Maria Glukhova, St. Petersburg State University: “Individual and social consequences of using mo…

  26.06.2019

• Shanghai Ranking: ITMO University Enters Global Top-100

  …tigious awards among alumni and staff. In order to make it to the 2019 Ranking, universities had to provide a certain number of publications in journals included in the Web of Science database in the period from 2013 to 2017.  Over 1,700 universities from 86 countries made it to the list of the world’s best universities. Among the most represented in the 2019 rank…

  26.06.2019

• White Nights Forum Experts on Combating Pseudoscience in Medicine

  …sburg State University, president of Cancer Fund, author of the project “The Human Life”, on the specifics of communication between a doctor and a patient wanting to use pseudoscientific treatment  One of the main constituents of the problem which can make a patient resort to alternative treatment methods after their doctor’s appointment is that the doctor doesn’t…

  25.06.2019

• Speak like a Russian: Science Words that Made it into Common Speech

  … ядреный. As for атомный, a really ugly person will be “страшный как атомная война” - “terrifying as an atomic war”. There isn’t such a word as “химичить” (himichit) in the scientific language, but this word derives from the word chemistry (химия, himiya), and translates as something like “do some weird (and possibly illegal) chemistry”. Basically, химичить means …

  24.06.2019

• Nature Index Rankings: ITMO in Top-10 of Russia’s Best Science Institutions

  …the results of the rankings can vary significantly from one year to another, but still highlight the value of the rankings as a database of the best and most in-demand natural sciences articles for the past year. Russia takes 18th place in the overall rankings. Among the top ten Russian scientific institutions are National Research C…

  24.06.2019