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• Rostelecom’s Project Leader Alisa Korzhenevskaya: We’re Slowly but Surely Digitizing the World Around Us

  …tools that address local problems better than people who work with these problems day in, day out. Did you work with the IT side of things or perform a more management-like role? I focused on management, but IT came into the picture quite often. My initial responsibility was building effective communications with regional and federal authorities, but then it sh…

  12.10.2018

• How to Write a Thesis on Marvel Comic Books: PhD Student Daniil Shirokov Explains

  … This is perfectly exemplified by the Hulk, who entered pop culture in 1962. This was the time when the number of nuclear warheads finally hit the ceiling, so Hulk, this uncontrollable, ferocious creature, personifies the public fear of the looming nuclear clash between the two superpowers.   If we delve into the social context of the period, we can find plent…

  12.10.2018

• Motasem Awaja’s Journey: A 2018 Open Doors Scholarship Winner

  …of Intelligent Systems in Humanities. “I need to do something for the humankind,” he says, and this looked like a good start to fulfilling his life-long dream. Eventually he enrolled in a double degree program on information security. This means that after his first year at ITMO, he has the opportunity to spend his next year at a university in Finland. He was encoura…

  11.10.2018

• Novgorod State University Hosts ITMO.REGIONS Innovation Weekend

  …ew technologies into a company’s day-to-day operations. Lastly, we couldn’t not mention the difficult issue of technology indices for different products. We also discussed the role of innovation agents, people responsible for supporting and championing modernization on every stage of a project,” explained Oleg Malsagov. According to the workshop organizers, …

  11.10.2018

• University of Amsterdam Professor on the Importance of Crowd Behavior Research and Putting Minecraft to Good Use

  …n new surroundings. Their research revolves around complex systems that analyze behavior and responses of participants, or agents, placed in challenging conditions of an uncontrolled flow of people. Each agent is defined by a set of parameters that include their age, mobility, speed, emotions, and experience of decision-making. Taken as a whole, this system of criter…

  11.10.2018

• ITMO University Launches Digital Humanities Research Lab

  …perience and collaborate on joint projects. Future prospects As of now, the laboratory’s projects involve developers from the School of Computer Technologies and Control, specialists in machine learning and data analysis, and Master’s students from Russia’s first Art&Science program. Kimon Keramidas, associate professor at New York University and renowned s…

  11.10.2018

• Short-Term Academic Mobility Programs: How to Get University’s Financial Support

  … courses were in English, including workshops where one could talk to lecturers in person and ask them any questions you liked. For my program, I chose two courses: The Role of Non-covalent Interactions in Solid-state Properties of Materials and Data Analytics + Machine Learning + Optimization. As a person, I am very inquiring and ambitious. For this reason, I…

  10.10.2018

• Break Down to Atoms: Why It’s So Hard to Become an Astronaut in Russia

  …s first astronaut candidates was Grigori Nelyubov, Titov’s backup crew member. Once, he went out to drink with some friends from the military and was arrested by a military patrol. This cost him his career, after which he became an alcohol addict. An astronaut can’t call their life their own; they have to train on a daily basis, and the only freedom they have is t…

  09.10.2018

• Civilization Historian, Cyber Security Ace, Filmmaker: Who’s Who at ITMO’s New Art&Science Program

  …new opportunities, for example, visualization of data, so museum staff have to be on par with new developments, and that’s why studying Art&Science is so important. Alena Koroleva, artist, finalist of Sony World Photography Awards 2013 I come from an arts background: I graduated from the St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design with a Bachel…

  08.10.2018

• Career Guidance for School Students

  … tend to rely on advice from their friends and relatives. Still, in recent years, the situation has started to change. The trend for  asking for career guidance played a major role in that. Another factor that can prevent people from getting career guidance is prior negative experience. Many people who already got career guidance counselling (in school, for instan…

  08.10.2018