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• Videogames and Violence: the Pro’s and Con’s of Gaming

  …as "videogames can ruin your mind" and such", comments Albert Safin, second year at the Department of Intelligent Technologies in Industrial Robotics of ITMO University and captain of KronBars cybersport team. There is still no sound proof that gamers are more aggressive. From time to time, new research appears with different data on the subject. Scientists use …

  17.03.2017

• What’s Behind the So-Called "Vitamin Deficiency" And How To Cope With It?

  …heir deficiency, as every vitamin is a strong allergen. What is called "vitamin deficiency" is often caused by some particular disease, when the patient lacks vitamins of a certain group — A, B or C", shares the expert. A good example of inappropriate use of vitamins is the failed experiment by Linus Carl Pauling, a Nobel Prize Winner and renowned chemist. Linus Ca…

  16.03.2017

• Soft Skills for Engineers: Students Presented Solutions for Real-Life Business Cases

  …y the Odgers Berndtson company, soft skills are extremely important, so they have to become a part of the engineering background. As of now, a successful R&D engineer has to obtain fundamental knowledge, apply it to the practice, deal with lots of data, be good at modern technologies, solve tasks in a creative way, know the basics of project management and be respons…

  16.03.2017

• The New Alumni Community for Over 40 Thousand Graduates

  …m of communication with alumni that was used before. How did it work? It was well organized — the alumni met frequently, organized various communities for business and entertainment. But in 2005 the situation had changed, one of the reasons is a generation change. That is why we are working on a new communication system using the experience of other universities a…

  15.03.2017

• Master’s Student Talks about Her IT Internship in Berlin

  …velop a tool giving their clients a tool to visualize objects. I developed a prototype, which is in the first stage of development — it has not been released yet. There are certain technical and mathematical issues that have to still be fixed. Was it difficult to work on this app? We used a specific platform, which made the work easier, as it is appropriate for iOS…

  14.03.2017

• From Entertainment to Medicine: Programmers Presented their Projects at AI Hackathon

  …The projects presented at the hackathon were devoted to socially important issues and those of entertainment. However, some projects couldn’t be referred to only one group; for instance, both a model who constantly keeps diet and a person with diabetes can use an application with a food recognition technology. Lots of projects were devoted to medicine. The partici…

  14.03.2017

• The More Chocolate the Better Test Results — What Really Helps to Prepare for Exams?

  …gum increases short-term memory and mental alertness. For instance, researchers from Cardiff University had analyzed vigilance skills — they asked two groups of students do certain task in a given time. Members of a group who chewed a gum when doing the task showed better results. However, another study made by scientists from Cardiff University, came to the point…

  13.03.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  … of economists found that entrepreneurs with ADHD embrace new experiences and demonstrate passion and persistence. Their intuitive decision making in situations involving uncertainty was seen by the researchers as a reason for reassessing existing economic models. NASA to develop printable electronics for Mars. The plasma jet will be able to spray tiny semiconduct…

  13.03.2017

• New SAP Lab at ITMO Gives Students a Chance to Work on Real Projects

  … an early stage of development. Two other teams suggested to create an automated marketing site, as well as augmented reality glasses that will display information about certain products or companies from the Internet. The jury praised all four project teams giving them the same number of points and therefore the opportunity to become a resident of the SAP Next-Ge…

  06.03.2017

• Gutenberg’s Lounge: Human-like Intelligence or a Spotless Mind?

  …ter science experts published an article, which in fact, comprised this idea. Obviously, they didn’t involve a Martian to do that. They used an emulator for Atari and ran a certain game (for instance, Space Invaders). Then they used modern neurophysiological methods to study which program was used by a processor while running. They came to the point that even modern …

  06.03.2017