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• Musicians: Nature or Nurture? Science Journalist Asya Kazantseva Explains

  … that the research only included 36 students, that they had only been tested on their spatial intelligence, and that the positive effect named only lasted for ten minutes. The mass media busted with a fit of endless instructions on how parents need to force their kids into listening to Mozart on a daily basis. Listening to music is better than sitting in silen…

  17.12.2018

• University of Twente’s Stefano Stramigioli: Robotics Is About Giving Machines Life

  …king our jobs”. What’s your take on that? These conversations have been going on for quite some time; I even had a TED talk about this. The issue is that society and mass media have certain misconceptions about the capacities of technology. Many get their ideas of technology from science fiction, and people tend to associate robotics with AI. Another miscon…

  17.12.2018

• InnoJam "TimeHack": Real Options Theory and Machine Learning

  …istics will also help understand which types of projects are easy to complete and which call for additional time and effort. Team WhatSAP, Sistema X Participants: Dimash Torehanov, Yulia Makarenko, Igor Sushentsev, Dmitry Ofitserov, Roman Lebedev The team's members proposed a system in the format of a web-service. It offers senior managers an opportunit…

  14.12.2018

• WorldSkills Winner on His Competition Experience

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 15-16

  …Do you like giving and receiving Christmas gifts? Want to learn more about this lovely tradition? Starting this Friday, December 14, the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, which is located in the Peter and Paul Fortress, hosts the Christmas and New Year Gifts Exhibition. Explore old Christmas-t…

  12.12.2018

• The Alchemy of Silk: Bioart Pioneer Joe Davis’s Workshop by The Polytechnic Museum and SkBioLab

  …omments Ippolit Markelov. Among those who attended the workshop were Liliana Gareeva and Laura Elidedt Rodriguez Torres from ITMO University, students of Russia's first Master's program in Art&Science. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, they talked about their plans for using the newly acquired knowledge. Why did you decide to join the workshop? Laura: I lea…

  11.12.2018

• SURF Stanford US-Russia Forum: Science Communication and Diplomacy

  …e who complete their defense are presented a SURF Alumni certificate. In the future, this project, says Daria, can serve as a foundation for research by students of the Master’s program in science communication. “Our project can also exist as a successful case example of scientific diplomacy. In addition, SURF has a very close-knit community, and many for…

  10.12.2018

• ITMO Fellow Ilya Anoshkin on Nanotubes and Working Abroad

  …s whose research has been recognized with prizes from the Government of St. Petersburg and the prominent international scientific societies IEEE and SPIE: Egor Litvinov, Maxim Masyukov, Alexander Chernyadiev and Pyotr Demchenko. The latter has been part of the top-10 of the highest-achieving ITMO students for the last two semesters. The team explores manipulating …

  10.12.2018

• The Hermitage: Getting the Full Picture

  …d patroness of arts, who really set the Hermitage ball rolling with an acquisition of a considerable and star-studded collection of Renaissance paintings. Things continued to amass when Nicholas I opened the collection for the (blue-blooded) public’s viewing pleasure in 1852, and after the 1917 revolution the Hermitage finally became a state museum with free access f…

  07.12.2018

• Tech Entrepreneur Grigory Kunis: Sky's the Limit