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Internship at Facebook: ITMO Students Share Their Stories
… team, responsible for community integrity and user behavior, and was involved in the development of user interaction templates. Now it takes me just several hours to create a new template, while before the internship, it took me about a week. What I especially liked about the internship was a very high level of organization and the transparency of the company’s poli…
20.11.2019
WUD@ITMO 2019: Design for the Future That We Want
…d by the Center of Usability and Mixed Reality (Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems) in 2015. Since then, the event has been growing its audience and inviting new experts and collaborators. In 2019, WUD@ITMO was organized by ITMO University together with the University of Tallinn and was supported by Arcadia, EPAM and Wärtsilä. As noted by Ar…
20.11.2019
A Quick Getaway to Moscow: the Journey from St. Petersburg
…iding peak travel times will get you a cheaper ticket. One of my favorite more budget-friendly trains are the double-decker ones (№ 025А & № 005А from St. Petersburg). They're new and clean, the only downside being that you can't sit up on the upper bunk. The double-decker train will cost you about 4,000 rubles out of pocket and you arrive around 6 am, but you share …
19.11.2019
ScienceMedia Hackathon for Aspiring Journalists at ITMO University
… as lectures or cultural events, however, the problem is that they just don’t produce any results, while the hackathon format is very practice-oriented. Here, students acquire new skills and use them to solve practical tasks that come next. Apart from that, such a format provides students with a chance to work in a team under stress conditions. One of the goals of th…
19.11.2019
Conference School on Photonics, Radio Physics and Nanotechnologies at Sirius
…sian Presidential grant and winners or award winners of associated events and study physics, applied mathematics, chemistry, engineering, electronics, optics, radiophysics and new materials. Pavel Belov, Dean of ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering acted as the school’s scientific supervisor. The project aims to immerse the participants in the fields of photo…
19.11.2019
EmPaci: Russia Joins International Project on Implementing Participatory Budgeting
…he seminar, they studied the best practices of implementing e-participation projects in regions and municipalities of Northwestern Russia, as well as discussed the plans for a new project. Participatory (initiative) budgeting According to Lev Shilov, the head of the UP urban science center at the European University at St. Petersburg, participatory budgeting is…
19.11.2019
Do Soup Therapy Like a Russian
ITMO University Representative to Be Part of Yandex Public Interests Foundation
…tional player or national business group bought the company. Yandex has substantially grown over the last decade and that was why we needed an updated “golden share.” The new Public Interests Foundation is this updated “golden share 2.0”. According to the company’s top-managers, this step will enable Yandex international investors to remain confident in the comp…
18.11.2019
Nanoblogging, Twitter Reincarnation and Instagram-Archives Monetization: Founder of Hello blogger On Current Digital Trends
…up with the bandwagon that’s bolting away. I believe the platform can still be reborn just like Twitter was this year. Platforms Want to learn the biggest blogging news of the last 48 hours? For one: Instagram is testing a TikTok prototype in Brazil. What does it tell us? Around two years ago, a grown-up audience developed a taste for Instagram while …
18.11.2019
Business Analyst and Football Player: ITMO University Graduate On Juggling Sports and Career
…t I’m really glad that I received such a high-quality education, which allowed me to get a very prestigious position. Do you still work there? No, I’m now looking for a new place. But I don’t think that I want to switch to another field. Why did you quit your last job? It seemed to me that there were too many dull, routine tasks. I think that this is wh…
18.11.2019