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Unexplored St. Petersburg: AI at the Hermitage
…on to join ITMO’s International Council on their visit to the General Staff Building, a recently renovated space that now houses modern art and a permanent collection of impressionists, including Matisse and Picasso. It’s all glass, stone and lots of natural light - a world away from gilded halls just across the Palace Square. A true representation of art and tec…
28.06.2019
ITMO Master’s Student Named One of St. Petersburg’s Best Students
…s that she owes the victory in large part to her work on the Buddy System. “I think it’s the commercialization of Buddy System that factored into the Department’s decision: this year, I have managed to attract one million rubles of investments into it. We plan to spend all this money on the further development of the project. Apart from that, at the end of l…
28.06.2019
ChemBio Cluster’s Small Innovative Enterprise Innocolloid Started Paying Dividends to ITMO
…ovative enterprise “Innocolloid” was created at ITMO University on the basis of its ChemBio Cluster. According to the head of the ChemBio Cluster Alexander Vinogradov, the decision to create the small innovative enterprise was prompted by the desire to make the financial support of the unit independent from grant funding and the university’s own support. Another impo…
28.06.2019
Leading the Way: 10th ITMO International Council Meeting Focused on Entrepreneurship and Tech Transfer
… Council experience. The first day of the meeting, June 20, began with a welcome from ITMO University Rector Vladimir Vasilyev. This was followed by a moderated discussion featuring International Council members, ITMO staff and students. Drawing on the results of a comprehensive student survey, the discussion touched on a wide …
27.06.2019
St. Petersburg to Get a Unified Human Capital Development Platform
…individual development trajectory for students aged from 12 years to 24 years old, as well as adult citizens. Such trajectories allow students to create their individual professional development plans and discuss it with an expert. This provides prospective employees with opportunities for social mobility. Upon registration on the platform, each user is offered to…
27.06.2019
IMS, DTGS and EVA: Key Events of the Information Society and Technology Week
…vents were conducted as part of a collaboration between IMS and DTGS. This year, those were joint seminars in the field of computational linguistics and cyberpsychology (discussions at IMS were in Russian, and the ones at DTGS were in English). According to the conferences’ organizers, up to half of the participants attended both conferences. What is more, the result…
27.06.2019
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: June 29-30
… on Cars, as well as Denzel Curry, Bhad Bhabie, The Score, MGZAVREBI, and others. Cheese Weekend June 28, 3-9pm; June 29-30, 11am-9pm Dolgoozornyy Mall Free admission Cheddar, Mozzarella, Parmesan, Gouda, Roquefort, Camembert, Feta – if these words make your mouth water, Cheese Weekend is exactly the event for you! Apart from purchasing numerous ki…
26.06.2019
Twitch, Twitter and Depression: Young Researchers Present Their Projects at ITMO University Poster Session
…e of any kind) and negative (that criticize a streamer). The research showed that a streamer’s personal characteristics have a very strong impact on the resulting discussions. Women streamers using a webcam tend to have 17% more positive discussions in their chat rooms; to compare, the number is 8% for streamers from South-East A…
26.06.2019
ITMO University’s Youth Robotics Team Wins Gold in National Stage of World Robot Olympiad 2019
… compete in the international competition, and those don’t necessarily have to be the winners or prize winners of the national stage. The committee will announce its final decision in September of 2019. Right now, ITMO University’s team is planning to improve the visual appearance of their creation and add in a couple of new features. The international stage of t…
26.06.2019
White Nights Forum Experts on Combating Pseudoscience in Medicine
… right way of doing so. In Russia, courses on doctor-patient communication are still an exotic thing, and it is down to the interest and conscience of a specific medical professional to improve their communication skills. I think that only 10-15% of doctors in the country make a conscious and independent decision to work on their commun…
25.06.2019