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• ITMO Student Picked as Torchbearer of 2019 Winter Universiade

  …ttended classes at a private school. I lived in the family of an elderly Italian woman. In only a month, I began to understand everything people said there. You just need immersion. Have you considered taking part in any of the university’s academic mobility programs? I did. My application for an exchange in Prague was approved, but I declined. Why? I…

  14.11.2018

• Studying Russian in Russia

  …lique Ostarozhna [осторожно] = be careful! Pozhalusta [пожалуйста] = please Blin [блин] = meaning “pancake” in a literal translation, it also serves as a catch-all expression of frustration, surprise, and even admiration. My favorite word is “sozvonimsya” [созвонимся], which in context translates to “let's call each other later to arrange something”. I alw…

  13.11.2018

• New York University Professor’s Take on Future of Digital Cities

  …me of journey) this way of traveling is not very popular. The HubCap project’s authors have analyzed the data about millions of taxi rides in New York and came to the conclusion that the number of rides can be reduced by 40%, which would, in its turn, lead to prices lowering, traffic reduction and environmental benefits. Mobility in developed and developing cou…

  13.11.2018

• When VR met AR: ITMO University Students Created a SMARRt Robot with Lots of Potential

  …a is enhanced with augmented reality, which the computer layers on special markers located in the environment. The system recognizes these markers with the help of synthetic vision sensors. The applied augmented reality consists of tables and other important information. But SMARR’s potential doesn’t just end there: it is also capable of autonomous navigation. Whe…

  13.11.2018

• Do Smart Traffic Lights Dream of Self-Driving Cars? Traffic Expert Nil Podozerov Thinks So

  …d roads. If we try to reverse-approach them, we get smart traffic lights, which is one way of addressing these perennial dilemmas. Smart traffic lights is a very popular expression: only in 2017, it appeared in many an article heading, for example: ‘Smart Traffic Lights to Become a Bane of Russian Drivers’ Existence’, ‘A Smart Traffic Light Is Good but a Reliable Pol…

  12.11.2018

• Kunstkamera: Russia’s Bizarre First Museum

  …t science was once like: most of them were bought from prominent scientists of their time. In a sense, the Cabinets of Curiosities were a way of promoting science, and a dispassionate viewer can notice lots of peculiar details that show the scientists’ way of showing concern for their audience, like decorating amputated limbs with lace doilies or adding flowers into …

  09.11.2018

• Go with the Flow, Ask Questions, and Shoot for the Stars: Lessons from a Gamedev Meetup

  …opment. I was a musician working as a sound engineer until something clicked, and I decided to make my first game. I was completely alone in this, too, but that was my own decision. First I developed by day only, but then slowly but surely the project started taking all of my free time. Each weekday would end with me darting out of the office with a laptop in hand ex…

  09.11.2018

• Grant Applications No Longer a Headache: Potanin Scholarship Lifehacks from Successful Contestants

  …Keep track of grant competitions The Potanin Scholarship Program isn’t the only opportunity for university lecturers to get additional funding for their professional activities. Higher education institutions regularly publish information on grant competitions (at ITMO, this is done through the university’s intranet system ISU). You can also keep up with scholarshi…

  08.11.2018

• Yandex Product Manager Anna Lopatukhina: on Scrum, Agile and Trying New Things

  …f the time, a project manager’s responsibilities are the product manager’s, too. First, you come up with a product, and then you put on your project manager hat and see the mission to its end. A few people seem to believe that a product manager is some sort of wizard who comes up with the right ideas on the fly and knows how the final product is going to look,…

  08.11.2018

• Biking to the Top: ITMO’s 9th International Council Meeting in Amsterdam

  …bout how such issues have been and are being handled elsewhere. It is a great dialogue and it will certainly allow the Rector and his team to make more informed and better decisions regarding the direction of ITMO,” commented Andrew Wachtel, Narxoz University Rector and member of the International Council. "When people in the US ask me questions like what'…

  07.11.2018