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• Studying Russian in Russia

  …The only benefit that I see to these cases is that, unlike in English, word order is not that important in the Russian language, as thanks to the cases, you can understand the role of each word no matter what the order. I think it is impossible for me to master all the endings of all the words every single time. So I’ve just accepted this and usually stick to English…

  13.11.2018

• New York University Professor’s Take on Future of Digital Cities

  …ning in order to make modern cities as comfortable to live in as possible. Because city systems are extremely vulnerable and complex, modern technologies play a very important role in the field of urban science. Digital cities The concept of digital cities implies the use of analytical approaches aimed at making people’s lives safer and more comfortable. Di…

  13.11.2018

• When VR met AR: ITMO University Students Created a SMARRt Robot with Lots of Potential

  …mobile robotic platform for facilitating remote presence of humans. The robot’s defining feature is that it functions on a combination of VR and AR technologies. Users can control the system with virtual reality glasses Oculus Rift. The video stream that comes from the fitted-in camera is enhanced with augmented reality, which the computer layers on special markers l…

  13.11.2018

• Do Smart Traffic Lights Dream of Self-Driving Cars? Traffic Expert Nil Podozerov Thinks So

  …e a Bane of Russian Drivers’ Existence’, ‘A Smart Traffic Light Is Good but a Reliable Police Officer Is Better’, and ‘Russian Inventors Come Up with a Smart Traffic Light Controlled from iPhone’ to name but a few. All these headings attest to quite a vague interpretation of the term. And that is often abused with the aim of attracting collective attention and pro…

  12.11.2018

• Pick a Dream Apartment Like a Russian

• ITMO Scientists Win Scopus Award Russia 2018

  … develop this project further. By then we had already won the megagrant and began to establish our pride and joy, the Laboratory of Hybrid Nanophotonics and Optoelectronics (PeroLab) at ITMO University. Within a year or so, the combined forces of ITMO staff and Yuri Kivshar and his team studied a whole series of nanophotonics effects in nanoimprinted perovskit…

  09.11.2018

• Go with the Flow, Ask Questions, and Shoot for the Stars: Lessons from a Gamedev Meetup

  …ommunity to help you solve difficult tasks. There’s a specialized group on VK, for example. Ask the most stupid questions if that helps you even a tiny bit. You will get some trolling at first, for sure, but you’ll also get answers. And in time, when it’ll be you who answers these rookie questions, you’ll be invited to a chat with some in-depth professional discussio…

  09.11.2018

• Yandex Product Manager Anna Lopatukhina: on Scrum, Agile and Trying New Things

  …ile manifesto. There are a few, but I’ll mention the most popular one, Scrum. Scrum The word Scrum comes from American football. In that game, every player has their own role, but if someone from the opposite team grabs the ball and breaks through your defenses, the whole team has one goal: to not let that player score. It’s chaotic and messy. That’s what Sc…

  08.11.2018

• New Magnetically Controlled Thrombolytic Successfully Passed Preclinical Testing

  …anoparticles coated with heparin and urokinase. Magnetite is a biocompatible iron oxide with pronounced magnetic properties. Therefore, magnetite particles movement can be controlled with a magnetic field. Urokinase is a first-generation thrombolytic with simple molecules, affordable price and efficiency almost equal to newer drugs. As soon as the nanoparticles with …

  08.11.2018

• Biking to the Top: ITMO’s 9th International Council Meeting in Amsterdam

  …usly agreeing on the value of interdisciplinary initiatives like Art & Science, an ultra-modern Master’s program that has just started at ITMO University. They also mooted the role of having a business incubator at the University. "On November 4 the ITMO International Council wrapped up its 9th council meeting. Council members were uniformly impressed by the…

  07.11.2018