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• Learning Russian and Making Movies: a Finn's Exchange Semester at ITMO University

  …me to be in a historical film. We worked on a short documentary about the Winter War of 1939. I am amazed that many people know nothing about it. This was another reason why I wanted to take part in the project: to make others more aware of those tragic times. Where did the shoot take place? Which part did you play? We went to the forests of Karelia to a lo…

  09.04.2018

• GameDev Specialists and Practice-Oriented Education

  …cational activities in the area of game development we noticed a surge of interest of IT companies in the University. The regular IT graduate is not enough for them. Companies want to hire a great specialist. But for us it is not just about hiring. We would like the students to get essential knowledge and practical experience during their education. That is why we ar…

  06.04.2018

• VR/AR Association & ITMO University Spring Kickoff: Trends and Philosophy of Virtual Reality

  …VR and AR applications tend to be made either for internal (used within organizations for corporate purposes) or external (used for customer work) uses. The cinema industry wants to use VR technologies, but today’s budgets aren’t suited for production of quality content. American producers admit that budgets for such projects are at the level of mediocre 1990’s co…

  05.04.2018

• Wastebake Project: Smart Recycling

  …s in producing sandwiches. The thing is, to make a sandwich, you take a large rectangular loaf of bread, remove the crusts, and cut it into thin slices. Our Italian colleagues wanted to come up with a way to reuse these crusts. What do bakeries usually do with their leftovers? Crusts and leftovers are extensively used as feed for farm animals. Our research show…

  05.04.2018

• HEX Hackathon: 32 Hours to Make the World a Better Place

  … smaller charities suffer the most from lack of visibility. “We chose this track because of its social mission. Maxim and I both work in for-profit companies, but we also wanted to contribute to social change”, shared Andrei Vinogradov. “Bloomberg asked that we create an application that would help smaller charities to get visibility and, at the same …

  04.04.2018

• Russian Easter: a Feast of Cheer

  …his is that Easter worship is much more beautiful, full of different symbols and hymns, and boasts the longest church celebration of all Orthodox service practices. So, if you want to get a full insight on how the Orthodox religious practice looks like, visiting an Easter service might be a good (and a very beautiful and heartwarming) experience.  The week leading u…

  03.04.2018

• Video Games vs. MBAs: How Gaming Makes You a Better Employee

  … video games and claim that the “gamer generation” will make for very different kinds of employees and managers. Resilience and Determination “Gamers instinctively want to move forward. When you play video games, you acquire certain behavior patterns useful in real life. Gamers know that failure is survivable, because they have already failed thousands of…

  03.04.2018

• Funny Science: ITMO Hosts Its First-Ever Science Stand-Up Show "Quantum Potential"

  … "Waiting for a response from a scientific foundation is like texting a girl. The answer comes about four months later. And a grant never texts you first. So you text her: "Want to go skating?" Four months later she texts you that she can’t. And then you see her with some other guy in her profile picture. It’s the same feeling as when you receive an answer from th…

  02.04.2018

• #ITMOCODE: Competition for Vacant Posts for Professors and Lecturers

  … management skills, emotional intelligence, and teamwork. ITMO’s Values, Fundamental, Professional Skills and Soft Skills form the university’s unique “code”: V+F+PS+SS. We want our current and future employees to understand this concept, which will allow us to create a team of like-minded people who share the same values and mission and truly love their job. The …

  02.04.2018

• Startup Pallium Promises Smarter AI

  … did the Pallium project begin? I first heard the word "blockchain" sometime in 2016 and became interested in this topic.  I read about it on Wikipedia, bought the Melanie Swan book "Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy” and was surprised how global this technology is. At some point, my friend and I decided, as did many in the industry, to get into mining. This…

  30.03.2018