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• FEDOR: Meet Russia’s First Robot Astronaut (Who Also Does Splits)

  …tion location aside, it wouldn’t matter as much should the robot be anthropomorphic or not. However, you could still use solutions with some degree of human resemblance,” explains Sergey Kolyubin, head of ITMO University’s International Laboratory of Biomechatronics and Energy-Efficient Robotics. The robot also has a couple of extra tricks up its sleeve. For…

  12.08.2019

• Gennady Korotkevich Wins Google Code Jam For The Sixth Time

• The Experiment: Living Zero Waste for a Week

  …aside, I did manage to dump my trash at the event. What’s more, even as I was standing there thinking what to do next with my life, I made a pleasant discovery that all this painstaking effort seemingly didn’t go unmissed by the universe, karma, the source or whatever else people believe in, because throwing my two Tetra Pak boxes (as in, cents, geddit?) into the urn…

  09.08.2019

• Modern Visual Effects: Applications and Software

  …worked on additional effects, motion capture, and assembling the whole of the picture. Is VFX used in blockbusters only? No. Few modern movies don’t make use of VFX. For instance, blood and gunshots in John Wick, as well as action films inspired by the works of Buster Keaton also involve these technologies. Smoke, water, gu…

  09.08.2019

• How Games are Changing Education

  …often describe educational games with the term “serious games”. In a general sense, serious games are the games where learning, or the acquirement of skills, are the main goal instead of entertainment. Besides education, the term is also applied to subjects such as defense, science, and healthcare. That, for instance, was the title o…

  09.08.2019

• Russian School Students Score a Resounding Victory at the 2019 International Olympiad in Informatics

  …ity’s sports programming team, which holds the world record of being the only seven-time winners of the prestigious International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) vice rector Alexey Maleev became the team’s deputy head. Also contributing as coaches were Mikhail Tikhomirov and Andrey Sergunin (MIPT), Oleg Khriste…

  09.08.2019

• Admission Campaign 2019 at ITMO University: Bachelor’s Programs

  …students As always, applicants had the opportunity to boost their chances by participating in competitions, ITMO-affiliated projects, and showcasing other achievements. For instance, the largest bonus (10 USE points) can be acquired with a winner’s or runners’-up diploma from the ITMO VK Competition or by taking part in international maths, physics, or computer sc…

  08.08.2019

• 15 Talented Prospective Students Become Winners of 2019 ITMO.STARS Unique Achievements Contest

  …ents of Russia. Applications came from St. Petersburg, Moscow and the Moscow Region, Kostroma, Vologda, Rostov-on-Don, Ufa, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and other cities.  As per the main rule of the contest, school students had to provide a real-world proof of their knowledge and skills in the form of independently-developed software …

  08.08.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 10-11, 2019

  …iet Arcade Machines (which you can read more about in this article by ITMO.NEWS), the JazzLike live jazz evenings leave no place for the jazz hits so hackneyed that even the mainstream gets a bit sheepish and embarrassed at their first chords; what the guests will be plied with instead is creativity at its best, served by the talented l…

  07.08.2019

• ChemBio Cluster Master’s Students on Their International Internship Experience

  …when I learned that I was going to Leipzig. The working process My internship lasted for three months. I worked as part of the group headed by Professor Evamarie Hey-Hawkins, whose main research focus is the chemistry of phosphorus compounds. I had a supervisor who helped me cope with the difficulties arising in the course of the work. The project I worked o…

  07.08.2019