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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 22-23

  …cookies, and lots of other hand-made goods and crafts are waiting for you along with songs, dances, and games. The fair will be open from midday to 8pm on December 20-23. Admission is free. Check out our article to learn more about other exciting winter fairs taking place in St. Pete this year. Enjoy your weekend!…

  19.12.2018

• University of South Carolina Professor on Development of Anticancer Drugs

  …ming as much as a thousand of American marines. An on-the-spot investigation by physicists established that the exposure to the dangerous gas resulted in a far-reaching suppression of lymphoid and myeloid cells in the bodies of casualties. These findings underpinned Dr. Stewart F. Alexander’s later suggestion that mustard gas can be used to suppress cancer cells’ gro…

  19.12.2018

• Virtual Influencers: What Are They?

  …cers – mere projections that can perform the same functions online as actual humans. Their creators develop their look as well as their biography: their age, birthplace, profession and much more. Among the first, and most popular, examples is the Japanese “vocaloid” Hatsune Miku. She is 16 years old, 158cm tall and sports luscious acid-green hair. She has a preferred…

  19.12.2018

• ITMO University in 2018: A Year in Review

  …oding the Future The cornerstone of all major changes happening at ITMO University in 2018 is the ITMO CODE. Our values, appreciation of fundamental thinking, and our professional and soft skills help us tackle global challenges. As part of ITMO CODE, a new set of core disciplines was launched in the 2018-2019 academic year that includes “Digital Culture,” …

  18.12.2018

• ITMO University Lecturers on Benefits of Using Online Courses in Teaching

  …rs who shirk the classes; you can just make them do an online course to get the grade. What’s important to understand, however, is that such courses always are a simplified version of the in-class lectures; some topics are covered in a more detailed way during the face-to-face interaction with students, and some topics aren’t included in online courses at all. They c…

  18.12.2018

• Andrei Maiboroda, Writer and Entrepreneur: If You Work a Lot, You Are Destined to Succeed

  …hapter about them. In your opinion, what are the main skills that are essential for launching your own business and making it a success. First of all, you have to be a visionary. You have to be capable of seeing the full picture and forecasting its development in order to tell where you have to be at a particular time. It is an essential skill that exists at th…

  18.12.2018

• Musicians: Nature or Nurture? Science Journalist Asya Kazantseva Explains

  …Psychology, neurobiology and genetics already know a lot about the brain’s less complex operations such as how the vision works. But it is the higher-level brain functions like listening to music, enjoying music, performing music, that prove a tougher nut to crack, as these activate many different parts and cortices of the brain with an odd distribution of functions,…

  17.12.2018

• University of Twente’s Stefano Stramigioli: Robotics Is About Giving Machines Life

  …d it can be used in combination with an MRI unit to conduct precise diagnostics. Another project, called MURAB, of which I am a coordinator, is funded by the European Commission and carried out in collaboration with KUKA, Siemens, and other major corporations. Its aim is also to help diagnose breast cancer and muscle tissue diseases. There is another project which…

  17.12.2018

• InnoJam "TimeHack": Real Options Theory and Machine Learning

  …. It is very important that the interface would allow to see all the information space on one screen, and present all the operative records necessary for making managerial decisions," explains Madina Eliseeva, director of ITSK's Technology Department. "As the task wasn't exactly well-defined, a proper way to go was to use the methods of design thinking, work o…

  14.12.2018

• WorldSkills Winner on His Competition Experience

  … This was the part I lost a lot of time on, which led to me losing my cool. That was partly because the equipment I had to work on was new to me; I’d practiced on a simpler version. I also experienced problems with the controller: the system was showing the wrong temperature value, and I thought this was due to the misoperation of the temperature sensor, but it was t…

  14.12.2018