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• Disability and Accessible Environment: Participants of Exchange Program on Japan’s Best Practices

  … In Japan, there’s a municipal program for fixing residencies with special equipment for handicapped people at their request. For instance, they showed us a special remote-controlled device that is used for moving one’s body from the wheelchair and into the bed. Disability Equality Training Natalya Startseva: At one of the seminars we attended, they explained t…

  07.09.2018

• The Land of the Rising Sun: Politeness, Self-Management, and Nature Conservation

  …What was your motivation for the trip? Egor Matsuev, Master’s student at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics: A few weeks prior to the trip, I got interested in the Japanese language. I practice Aikido, so I had already known quite a lot of words in Japanese by the moment I started learning the language. Japan has a very unique culture, and I really wanted…

  06.09.2018

• Online Farmers Market and Students with Jobs: SumIT School Winning Projects

  …at you have a feel of and really want to solve. Your knowledge and skills, be it your tech-savviness or the ability to hold your own and pitch an idea, also play a significant role. In a nutshell, having a business concept means being able to answer the question of which client you’ll be working with and why they should choose you over your competitor. That was the r…

  04.09.2018

• MELScience Founder Gives Lecture on VR in Education

  …s focal distances, and the eye can focus on those. As opposed to the previous two problems, this one is yet to be solved. Problem #4: Another problem has to do with controlling VR devices. In this sense, Google Cardboard was really inconvenient. Nowadays, the most popular solution is trackpads. Sensors are also quite popular: you just move your hands, and the …

  03.09.2018

• ITMO.GO: Thousands of First-Year Students Join ITMO University

  … in case the newly-welcomed students have any questions regarding student life, dormitories, summer schools, and internships. Participants were also given the opportunity to enroll into any of ITMO University's art and sports clubs of their choice.  Those who had already got to know the university a bit better headed to the snazzy interactive area to play vide…

  03.09.2018

• Specialists From eScience Research Institute Participate in ICCS 2018

  …Role of high-performance computing in modern science High-performance computations make it possible to model events or phenomena with a large number of participants and objects influenced by multiple external factors that can be hard to assess or predict without using additional means. For instance, forming and movement of crowds, evacuation, spread of disease, or…

  31.08.2018

• ITMO University Topped GoTech Ranking

  …and Next Generation Security categories. As a prize, the uHVAT team made up of Ivan Borisov, Oleg Borisov, and Vladislav Gromov, postgraduate students at ITMO’s Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics, received the opportunity to launch a pilot project together with TRA Robotics and represent GoTech with them at the TechCrunch Disrupt forum in Berlin. Drone Employ…

  30.08.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 1-2

  …e. A great chance to take a break from the city hustle and bustle: this Sunday, September 2, Pavlovsk Park will host the 9th Pavlovsk Squirrel Ecological Festival. Take a stroll in the park, participate in workshops on birch bark weaving and wood painting, and feed a couple of those sweet, adorable creatures. A little tip: take some nuts with you instead of buying…

  29.08.2018

• Neurotheater as an Instrument of Cognitive Science

  …is not about reading one’s thoughts, though one may think so after watching the many movies that use this idea in various ways. It’s not about visualization of thoughts or controlling one’s behavior either - as much as we are scared of the “Big Brother” watching us. That won’t be a problem, at least in the coming 15-20 years. HCI are devices that are currently used f…

  29.08.2018

• UC San Diego Assistant Professor on Latest Software Development Trends

  …. This is what many ITMO’s Computer Technologies department associate professor Andrey Stankevich’s lectures are about. More complex automation machines are used in controller software as they allow developers to build the controller system logic, automatically converting it to code. Dubbed as automata-based programming, this tec…

  29.08.2018