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• Winter Forces: Volunteering and Retreat Trip All-in-One

  …ll the way through to the current day. Its main goal has remained the same: to visit remote settlements, help people, and meet with local schoolchildren for career guidance sessions. Starting in 2015, the student organizations of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast have carried out their own program, “Neva River Forces”, the participants of which grow in numbe…

  27.02.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 2-3

  …ndreds of azaleas in full bloom! Spring Chords Piano Concert Great news for music aficionados out there! This Saturday, March 2, the legendary Derzhavin estate museum-mansion hosts the ‘Spring Chords’ piano concert by Tatiana Zhak and winners of international music competitions. The hall will be filled with the sounds of the piano, flute, violin, alto, cello, a…

  27.02.2019

• On-Site Round of “I Am a Professional” Competition: Participants Share

  …ic mobility program to come to the university’s Moscow headquarters, where I’m now studying. I major in software engineering. It’s my first time participating in ‘I am a Professional’, since I failed to register for the last year’s competition in time. Personally, I found the first round rather difficult; you had to work really hard to make it to the finals. I did…

  27.02.2019

• Head of Greenhouse of Social Technologies on Making the Best of AI

  … the approach and the overall conditions. The latter would be the emergence of cloud technologies (availability of huge amounts of data that can be used by AIs to learn), inclusion, and sensors (data entry points for AI) that are becoming more accessible. Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, the authors of Machine, Platform, Crowd, speak of an essential change…

  27.02.2019

• Head of Greenhouse of Social Technologies on Making the Best of AI

  … the approach and the overall conditions. The latter would be the emergence of cloud technologies (availability of huge amounts of data that can be used by AIs to learn), inclusion, and sensors (data entry points for AI) that are becoming more accessible. Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, the authors of Machine, Platform, Crowd, speak of an essential change…

  27.02.2019

• Fighting Hibernation: Is It Springtime Yet?

  … with hibernation is getting enough sleep. Staying up late to cram and partying through the night is indeed an essential part of the romance of youth, but do remember that occasionally, you just need to recover. So, give early bedtime a chance - at least when it’s your Facebook minute that you’ll be sacrificing for it. Well, good luck to you all - and we hope you’…

  26.02.2019

• How Researchers Use Big Data to Fight HIV and Addiction

  …t cases, medical treatment is the most widespread solution due to political and economical factors. Pharmaceuticals are easier to monitor: they’re produced under strict supervision and research shows that the treatment might not work on everyone, but at least it has none or very little side effects. It is therefore clear that the medicine will be generally successful…

  25.02.2019

• Helping Sleepwalkers, Fighting Excessive Snow and Ensuring Better Security on Campus: Best Projects by 2019 “It’s Your Call!” Participants

  … of the state of somnambulism, with special sensors used to identify the exact moment when a sleepwalker should be woken up. However, medical research postulates that such invasions into the sleeping process create major stress for the nervous system and thus can lead to unpredictable ramifications, mental illnesses being one of them. It’s known, for example, that th…

  25.02.2019

• Snack Like a Russian

  …ght, wouldn’t it be fun to make up our own Russian snack box? Here’s what we’d put in it: Traditional I used to know a gal who always bought two boublicks - a Russian version of a bagel but skinnier and sweeter - on her way to work. That was her metro snack. When I was an exchange student, another friend used to mail me sushkas, which are akin to miniature drie…

  25.02.2019

• ITMO University and Government of Moscow’s Department for Education and Science to Launch IT Classes in City’s Schools

  …ing to the initiators of the “IT classes” project, this training will help soon-to-be graduates make an informed choice of their future career and obtain high-quality preprofessional knowledge necessary for successful studies at leading universities specializing in this field. As noted by the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin, it is this kind of education that is gradu…

  22.02.2019