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Urban Evolution: Artists, Journalists and CEOs Discuss Future of St. Petersburg
…understand that, indeed, there is a postal-card-esque area that will surely remain unchanged, but there’s no reason not to have the background for that scene to be filled with massive, daring, sky-scraping beautiful buildings”. Hermitage hearbeat Sergey Shnurov connects live from Munich Sergey Shnurov, who could not be present in person, joined the discu…
02.10.2017
Blogger Boris Tsatsulin on Science Writing, Kamchatka and Memes
…rience, so the level of the content was not very high. Now I'm doing a new piece on this topic, which will be a lot better. This year, you entered the Science Communication Master's program at ITMO University. What do you expect from it? Like-minded people, interesting projects. Naturally, I'm interested in meeting specialists in different fields. Surely, I alr…
02.10.2017
Spatial Development Forum: How Citizens Create Smart Cities
…zed – would have all the decisions made by companies and other major players on the market. “This begs the question: where should the big investments go? Towards creating massive sensor systems, information processing and Big Data, artificial intelligence or virtual and augmented reality? These systems require constant maintenance; besides, in the digital econom…
29.09.2017
"HOW should I trust?" - Thomas Leitch on Fake News
… enough. You will also have to constantly ask yourself one question: what is credible and what isn’t? Instead of asking "whom should I trust", ask "how should I trust?". Thomas Leitch's lecture at ITMO UNiversity In this regard, news can be compared with Wikipedia, a resource the scientific community often underestimates as its content is edited by large amount…
29.09.2017
ITMO won Silver "Dolphin" at the Cannes Corporate Media and TV awards
…ogram of workshops and lectures on various subjects, great for video professionals - those who came to receive the award. For ITMO University, the most relevant proved to be a master class on video for social media, an area which we will develop in the future, as it is a priority for us. We are talking about promotion in social media using video content, which, accor…
29.09.2017
Things to Do This Weekend: September 30 - October 1
…ning of the SOBYTIE International Festival of Visual and Performing Arts. The event will be held at different sites throughout St. Petersburg - theatres, street venues and cinemas, and feature all kinds of small-scale events dedicated to three topics: theatre, short films, and photography. For more detailed information, check the festival’s website (available in Engl…
28.09.2017
ITMO's Metamaterial MRI-Boosting Invention Praised by St. Petersburg Government
…n health, including overheating of organic tissue. Seven-tesla tomographs also exist and are used for scientific research; they have their own drawbacks, too, as expensive and massive equipment is needed to provide cooling to such machines. All this means that it is futile to attempt to increase the effectiveness of medical MRI machines just by strengthening their ma…
28.09.2017
Google Celebrates 19th Birthday
…ed in spring of 2012 and currently updates in real-time mode. It lowers the placement of websites with spam-filled link profiles and websites that try to manipulate their link mass. Most of its victims tend to be merit-based links and those that lead to untrustworthy websites. Google’s Pirate Update was launched in summer of 2012 and only updated two years lat…
27.09.2017
4C St. Petersburg: Soon, Everyone Will Be a Gamer
…nly have more free time, but much more opportunities for content consumption, too. But what will it look like in the era of the fourth industrial revolution? Gaming for the masses Today, the gaming industry is gradually taking over the segment of the market traditionally occupied by such forms of entertainment as film, television and music. This growth began wh…
26.09.2017
Relocation Tips: How to Cook Healthy Without Going to the Store