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• The Hermitage: Getting the Full Picture

  … the Great, who was partial to snatching an odd artefact here and there, but it was Catherine the Great, a self-proclaimed 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…

  07.12.2018

• Tech Entrepreneur Grigory Kunis: Sky's the Limit

  …ight thing, not make them. If they can't do something, you just need to show them what they were doing wrong. Otherwise, they lose motivation. "Social strokes" play a major role in people's work. After a delivery, clients rate our drivers and purchasers, who can see it in real-time mode. Such feedback shouldn't be underestimated: customers can choose the same purc…

  07.12.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 8-9

  … Red, Yellow, White exhibition hosted by the Russian Museum of Ethnography. Dedicated to coral, amber, pearls, nacre and shells, the event explores the material and immaterial role of such tchotchkes in the traditional culture of the peoples of Eurasia, emphasizing their ancient archetypal meanings, religious interpretation and usage in everyday rites. The artefacts …

  05.12.2018

• St.Petersburg International Innovation Forum 2018: Digital Economy, Biometry and Education

  …rch and exploitation of oil and gas reservoirs and definition of the outer limits of continental shelves. Among the other winners in this category was a solution for the petroleum and power industries, the MSKU-6000 system developed by Sistem-Service research and production company. It is now being introduced at the associated enterprises for the automation of tec…

  05.12.2018

• Winter Fairs in St. Petersburg

  …nenkirche church on Kirochnaya St. 8 is reminding us that the holidays are a time to do good things unto each other. At the Christmas Charity Market, you can enjoy Christmas carols, stock up on presents for your loved ones or find a rare antique, all while contributing to a good cause: part of the proceeds from the market will be donated towards the Church of Ingria’…

  04.12.2018

• Head of the .NET-Development Department at JetBrains Sergey Kux: Don’t Build a Process Just for the Sake of It

  …velop a version of the software we’ll then use. It’s a necessary procedure because we deal with desktop products and not web servers which we could give the user access to and roll back onto the latest runtime version should there be any problems. Ours is a solution which users have to install themselves, and that’s why we need a mechanism that will make it possible …

  04.12.2018

• New York University Professor Kimon Keramidas on Digitalization and Digital Humanities

  …xhibits was iPad, a device that brought to life humanity's long dream of tablet computers. Finally, I exhibited Microsoft Kinect which uses motion capture technologies for control. I asked my students to write a 60-90 second scenario that covered the most important ideas for presenting these items in a museum. Then, we found a developer who wrote a code for all of…

  03.12.2018

• Six ITMO University Lecturers Awarded Prize by Government of St. Petersburg

  …d as useful for the society at large is a very good source of motivation to develop further and keep reaching new heights. Galina Demidova, a lecturer at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics As a member of the R&D center ‘Precision Electromechanics’, which focuses on the production of high-precision technical systems, I used my experience to develop the …

  03.12.2018

• Movie Fridays: New Releases

  …euvres such as After Life, Nobody Knows and Like Father, Like Son. Prepare a wad of hankies to see you through the screening (in Russian), but I promise you: this emotional-rollercoaster ride will be worth it. In the words of the 2018 Cannes festival jury president Cate Blanchett, “The ending blew us out of the cinema.” Coming from a talented actor with an astute …

  30.11.2018

• ITMO’s Digital Humanities Lab Wins Microsoft Prize for Project on History of Gulag

  …ing startups an opportunity to work with major cultural institutions such as the Tretyakov Gallery, the Bolshoi Drama Theater, the Gulag History Museum, and others. Before I enrolled in the Art&Science program at ITMO University, I graduated from the St. Petersburg State University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science with a major in History of Civilizations, so, na…

  30.11.2018