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• ITMO Master’s Student on Passion For Tech and His New Project

  …How did you acquire such passion for technology and computers? When did it all happen? Well, I was born in Bulgaria, but at an early age of five, my parents and I moved to California. We arrived at the same time as the rapid development of Silicon Valley started to take place. It was a perfect environment and given that my father is a mechanical designer, I became…

  14.11.2019

• The Kunstkamera: St. Petersburg’s “Chamber of Curiosities”

  …d less of academic debate and more of dinner”. Yet, the tower was never restored. For over 200 years, the building stood “headless”, and only after World War II was the decision made to restore its upper tower section and dome, a project carried out by architect and historian Robert Kaplan-Ingel. The collection Peter the Great had put a lot of effort int…

  14.11.2019

• ITMO Student Wins in Special Nomination of Huawei Honor Cup

  …on in the field of information and communication technologies organized by the company Huawei. Held since 2015, it aims to increase the motivation for self-education and professional skills development among young ICT specialists. Traditionally, the contest is held in five nominations: 5G (Technologies and standards of new-generation mobile communications); IT (Compo…

  14.11.2019

• What Russian Startups Bring to Japan

  …ps fare at entering the Japanese market? What’s the difference between the business cultures in Russia and Japan? These questions were the key subjects of the roundtable discussion “Cross-Cultural Business Communications. Japan-Russia”. During one of the 12th St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum’s first sessions, representat…

  14.11.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 16-17, 2019

  …Exhibition of iconic Soviet cartoon characters November 15 – December 1, 10am – 11pm Berthold Centre Free admission Hark back to the lucidly colored past of Soviet animation with an exhibition that celebrates the 50th anniversary of its most iconic characters, remembered here through photos, archive documents, film reels and sketches. Cheburashka, Croc…

  13.11.2019

• Participants of Google’s STEP Internship Share Tips for First-Timers

  …ne told me that Google was accepting first and second-year interns for the STEP (Student Training in Engineering Program) project. To get in, you needed to be not only a professional, but, more importantly, eager to learn. I didn’t really believe I could get it, but I was really passionate about the idea, so I started getting ready for …

  13.11.2019

• Quests, Gamification and Simulators: ITMO Graduate Maksim Ivanov on New Education Formats

  …Student years: Military Department, student initiatives and dorm life One part of your current professional activities is developing educational programs. Did you study anything of the sort at ITMO? Enrolling at ITMO, I chose the university’s Military Department with a major in information security. I wanted to become a super specialist in this field. During my…

  13.11.2019

• University College Dublin’s Professor Da-Wen Sun: Soon Enough, Your Phone Will Know More About Your Food Than You Do

  …hile vacuum cooling only takes thirty minutes. It not only helps preserve their quality, but reduces the energy requirements, as well. You also write a lot about computer vision. Can you explain how it can be useful in food quality control? Computer vision is very beneficial to the food industry. Say you’re looking at a red apple …

  13.11.2019

• What’s Inside: Microsoft Developer Talks Computer Architecture

  …uter The Windows operating system was first created in 1985. Today there are over 1.5 billion devices running on it, with 900 million of them using the latest Windows 10 version. Over its history, Windows supported 8 different architectures. It was initially designed as a flexible operating system that could be used by a great number of devices. For instance, Wind…

  12.11.2019

• Total Dictation and ITMO’s Center of Science Communication Launch a Contest of PopSci Works

  …rature. Almost any format will do, from texts or ideas for texts to video and audio recordings. The work will be evaluated by a jury consisting of science popularization professionals from ITMO, Higher School of Economics and National University of Science and Technology “MISiS”, as well as experts and partners from the Total Dictation initiative.  “This is a jo…

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