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• ITMO.STARS Winners Share Their Experience

  …Anton Akimkin, Chelyabinsk Developed a control system for school students I only learned about the contest when the application process almost came to an end, so I had about eight hours to write a motivation letter and come to St. Petersburg. I bought a ticket straight away, but I didn’t make it. When I came, it was too late, and the admission office was al…

  17.09.2018

• Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines: An Unexpected Experience

  …of the sort. I remember playing a Soviet arcade machine one time when I was a little kid. The bulky, loosely colored device with an old CRT display and a single stroppy controller was already outdated, and the game’s visual aspect made 8-bit graphics look like Renaissance art. Still, it possessed a strange kind of magic, leaving me completely captivated by what wa…

  14.09.2018

• Password-Protected Labs on the Red Sea Shore: KAUST Photonics Summer School

  …ate-of-the-art equipment out there. For instance, this summer school was my first encounter with the so-called ‘clean’ laboratories. These are special research spaces with controlled air ratios of such particles as dust, microorganisms, aerosols, and chemical vapors. Other factors like humidity, pressure, and temperature also can be modified. You have to wear a speci…

  14.09.2018

• ITMO University’s National Center for Cognitive Technologies Holds its First Session

  … be beneficial to the development of successful, functional cognitive technologies is the creation of digital prototypes of the real world, ones that include a myriad of uncontrolled and spontaneous elements. This approach was used when creating a model of the satellite-city Yuzhny. Researchers from eScience Research Institute built a model that took into account the…

  14.09.2018

• Developing an Automated Approach to Recycling and Sorting Waste

  …at it makes use of a client-server model that allows to interconnect heterogeneous components of a system. The mobile apps are created on Kivy, the automation software for controlling waste movement and the smart containers is written in Python and Java. The energy-efficient LoRaWAN (Low Power, Wide Area) networking protocol is used for the wireless signal transfer. …

  13.09.2018

• Transcending Humanity: Evolution of Technological Art

  …ence and BioArt in particular is an attempt to put the clever 21st-century human on a par with the modern science that develops in a rapid-fire pace. Art has always played the role of a mediator conveying what’s wrong and what’s right in direct speech. Now, however, with audience becoming more intelligent and nuanced, art has to find a new language to address it. …

  12.09.2018

• ITMO’s New Academic Degree System: What You Need to Know

  …rch topics is yet another important stage of the internationalization of Russian science. We’ve developed a system for selecting qualified experts who will ensure a strict control over the quality of thesis defence at ITMO. Those will be experts from ITMO University as well as other leading Russian and international educational establishments that will provide for an…

  12.09.2018

• Best Places to Eat in Saint Petersburg: Ed Picks

  …ar, nice friendly staff, and a good choice of desserts (among my favorites are chocolate croissants on weekdays and cream cheese tarts and raspberry/blackcurrant puffs (profiteroles) on weekends). The cafe is situated right in the city center not far away from the Peter and Paul Fortress. To find it, walk from Gorkovskaya metro station along Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt…

  11.09.2018

• Do It Yourself: How to Start Projects from Scratch and Make a Career out of Your Hobby

  … instead of completing them. The problem with this is that there can be several teams working on the same thing, and it’s important to finish first. That’s why you have to control yourself and showcase the results of your work from time to time.   How to start making money on your project? Some people say that it’s not enough to be passionate about what you do …

  11.09.2018

• Living in Russia Crash Course

  … Petersburg has a vast transportation network that is easy to pay for and use. You can get around town using the metro (“so deep it goes below the permafrost”), buses, trams, trolleybuses, commercial minibuses called “marshrutka” and many taxis. Here’s a primer on how to get anywhere without breaking the bank. You might find useful tips on how to navigate public tran…

  10.09.2018