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• ITMO Graduate from the Republic of Chad on His University Experience

  … but also at the University itself. Furthermore, it is not a secret that ITMO is very involved in lots of international competitions and I can honestly say that for me, it remains one of the best universities in the world. Its many victories made ITMO famous in the US, Europe, Asia, but, sadly, not in Africa, and especially not in my country, Chad. I’m even afraid to…

  13.08.2019

• Apps to Make Your Student Life Easier

  …TH 42 and MalMath are two more services that can ease the pain of calculations calculations. MATH 42 is a program for students that not only helps solve problems but also explains their solutions step by step. What’s more, it offers several different solutions at once. Another bonus is a section dedicated to training.  The application is available for iOS. Its…

  13.08.2019

• 5 Surprises about WCs in St. Petersburg

  …e common area.  Toilet paper question. At a beautiful restroom in a public garden not only there was no little sink (ok, there were 20 stalls) but no toilet paper too. Instead, there was a dispenser in the common area, so you kinda had to plan ahead. I wish I’d gotten that memo. Toilets on trains. I was equally surprised…

  12.08.2019

• Procrastination: Blessing or a Curse?

  …aking baths, I don’t need to get paid or praised to keep on doing that. External motivation, on the other hand, is associated with either a reward or a lack of punishment. For instance, we pay taxes so as not to get fined. Studies show that external motivation improves the quantity of our work, and internal motivation improves its quality, but it’s better to combi…

  12.08.2019

• 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