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Digital Technologies in Theater
…ormance attempted to answer the question of why dance as an art form has been so popular throughout the history of humankind. What feelings and emotions does it evoke? A professional dancer performed several dances, but his movements did not always correspond with the music: for example, the music was cheerful while the actor moved in a restless and unsettling way. W…
04.09.2018
Online Farmers Market and Students with Jobs: SumIT School Winning Projects
…ription basis only and will deliver wholesome and all-natural ready meals to any office or home in next to no time. “Other judges and I have come to a unanimous conclusion that all that matters for a beginning entrepreneur to be successful is being committed to the constant development of their project and having a good awareness of what they can do and whic…
04.09.2018
MELScience Founder Gives Lecture on VR in Education
…sting things. As an example, let’s take the atomic structure. What binds the electron to the atom? For some reason, many children believe that it’s gravity. I had to disillusion them and tell them that gravity doesn’t have much part in that: the electrostatic forces are a lot more important in this matter. Then, they asked me a logical question: why do we even stu…
03.09.2018
ITMO.GO: Thousands of First-Year Students Join ITMO University
…ne of them,” commented the university’s Rector. The square in front of the Baltic House theater became a huge entertainment area allowing participants to mark the occasion by being photographed on the winners' podium, get in the rockstars' shoes by playing Guitar Hero, and have a blast from the past playing retro arcade games and the well-loved Sega, Sony Pl…
03.09.2018
ITMO University in Top 20 of Times Higher Education Eurasia Rankings
…rs. Another of ITMO’s strong points is its performance in the Industry Income criterion evaluating the funding universities receive from the industry as part of research commissions. The Lomonosov Moscow State University topped the table, having the best region-wide scores in the International Outlook, as well as Teaching and Research Environment categories. Ranki…
31.08.2018
Five Science Blogs You May Find Interesting
Specialists From eScience Research Institute Participate in ICCS 2018
…wd movement at the Kumbh Mela festival and used it to forecast how the crowd’s dynamics will change when it encounters obstacles. Various models can be used for developing decision support systems, for example, in the medical field such algorithms can be used for dispatching ambulance cars. ICCS conference The International Conference on Computational Science (…
31.08.2018
Phylogenetic Trees and Targeted Cancer Research: Bioinformatics Summer School
…on the Monte-Carlo Markov Chain (МСМС) sampling method, and we decided to apply it to our project. I remembered hearing about cases when similar tasks were solved by using decision trees based on a set of machine learning algorithms, which also inspired our research approach. The largest chunk of time was spent away from the computer; we had to organize our thoughts …
30.08.2018
Neurotheater as an Instrument of Cognitive Science
…me. In their artwork, media artists are trying to show that becoming cyborgs may be our only way of overcoming singularity. Interdisciplinary projects The European Commission has recently launched the STARTS (Science+Technology and Arts) project that is aimed at developing collaboration between scientists and media artists. This collaboration’s goal is to creat…
29.08.2018
UC San Diego Assistant Professor on Latest Software Development Trends
…oblem and alter the specification if the original specification cannot be actualized in the form of a fully functioning program? This question arose during the workshop Q&A session, but scientists haven’t come up with a more or less viable answer yet. How ITMO University changed in ten years I came to St. Petersburg during my vacation and jumped at the chance t…
29.08.2018