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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 19-20

  …s a number of art performances and concerts at unusual hours. Some museums will be open from 6pm to 11pm, while others will remain open all night from 6pm to 6am. Regular admission fee is 400 rub for the entire tour, and will give you access to well over 100 museums. Tickets can be purchased in any of the museums and the city’s ticketing offices. If you are a natu…

  16.05.2018

• ITMO Joins New Foresight Project on Innovations

  …a processing systems, machine learning and AI; transition to ecologically safe and energy conserving power industry, increasing the efficiency of mining and deep conversion of     hydrocarbon fuels, generation of new sources of energy; development of new methods for transporting and storing energy; transition to personalized medicine, high-tech health…

  16.05.2018

• Ensuring Cybersecurity: Hacking to Stop Hackers

  …mployers require their employees in the field of cybersecurity to have experience participating in CTF competitions. As for the money, international CTF competitions for professionals can be a very profitable activity. For example, some Asian competitions offer a prize of about 30 thousand dollars for the first place. The largest and the most prestigious compe…

  16.05.2018

• ITMO Graduates Reflect on True Value of Education

  … and modeling. Why was it so important for you to do something other than study? Andrei: Though the university offered a high level of knowledge and trained strong professional competencies, just studying seemed too boring to us. We wanted something bigger. This is why starting in the second year, studying had become sort of a background for our research activi…

  15.05.2018

• Motion Capture, VR and Video 360: New Technologies Enter Classical Art

  …her in Russia nor abroad. My plan is to conduct my own project. In this sense, our work on Solaris opens many new opportunities. Did you always want to focus your professional activity on ballet? My mother is teaching at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, so most of my childhood had to do with the theatre. Not only did I watch a lot of performances, I’…

  14.05.2018

• Physicist Yuri Kivshar on Russian Science, Career Management and Metaoptics

  …be able to work both here and there. At the same time, they don’t need to move, yet they’ll still have an understanding of the wider world. Staying or going – that’s their decision, and it all comes down to personal preference. You Hirsch index is one of the highest among physicists. People must ask you often how to become such a highly-cited researcher. I was …

  11.05.2018

• How Citizen Science Helps in “True” Research

  …citizen science is “The collection and analysis of data relating to the natural world by members of the general public, typically as part of a collaborative project with professional scientists.” The definition appeared in 2014, the phenomenon itself, however, has been known since the XIX century. Obviously, there was no Internet two hundred years ago and the opportu…

  11.05.2018

• Island 10-21 Welcomes Future Technological Leaders

  …nagement project teams. They will also be able to create and develop their own technological projects. “Today the demand is high for specialists in rapidly emerging professions, that the current education system and labor market cannot prepare for. In Russia and globally there is a shortage of specialists in areas where usual engineer or programmer knowledge doe…

  10.05.2018

• Work on the Plot, Not the Graphics: Making VR-Gaming Mainstream

  … The key issue in game development The main problem of modern game developers is not the lack of specialists who can create great graphics. Companies often don’t have professional writers who can create an engaging story. The characters are a player’s main attraction, not the graphics or the picture. You're not going to watch a movie that does not excite you. W…

  10.05.2018

• Portfolio Competition Open For Master’s Students

  …should have: at least one publication; an average grade of at least 4.5 in your Bachelor's program. Winners of the “It’s Your Call!” Semi-Hackathon, “I am a Professional” Competition, and the Open Doors: Russian Scholarship Project automatically get the desired 100 points. To learn more about the portfolio competition, follow this link. We've also ask…

  08.05.2018