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• Divide and Conquer: How S&R Built a Successful Chemical Startup in Russia

  …ts, as well as through the usual methods such as e-mail campaigns. An innovative system, accidentally introduced by Denis, also shows great results. This “system” is based on random meetings with potential partners in bars. Sometimes, people see familiar things on the laptop screen and come by to ask questions. This is exactly how Denis had once met the company’s bus…

  30.08.2017

• SHA2017: Summer Camp for Hackers

  …onvention gets a new name. This year’s SHA2017 (Still Hacking Anyway) follows such events as the GHP1989 (Galactic Hacker Party), WTH2005 (What The Hack), HAR2009 (Hacking At Random) and others. “Most people who come here use the word “hacker” in its original sense: a sort of a synonym for “explorer”, but leaning a bit more towards information security. The part…

  14.08.2017

• Relocation Tips: Getting Your Cell Phone in Russia

  …will have to sign a contract of which you will also get a copy. You can ask the assistant to change your sim card in your phone or do it by yourself. Don’t buy sim cards from random stalls on the street that are selling them. If you are not required to show ID when getting the sim card, it’s most likely dodgy. Which operator to choose? The operators have various …

  08.08.2017

• ITMO’s Russian Language Summer School: Gaining New Experiences

  …ed by the beauty of the place. The architecture, the grandiosity, the canals, the history, the parks, are all enough to make you fall in love. Of course there are some other standout features, “the white nights are very impressive, especially at 3am in the morning watching the bridges go up and all the ships going through at the same time, and so many people on the s…

  28.07.2017

• “Night of Light” in Gatchina

  …ome to life. As the authors explain, the content will be unique in case of each visitor and the whole experience will be augmented by sound effects. “The installation is randomized each time. It includes collages, some of which are animated. In this project we want to reproduce the multi-layered nature of dreams: there are metamorphoses there, incompatible objec…

  27.07.2017

• WWSSS'17 Brings Together Social and Computer Sciences

  …tion, video provides a better function set for VR integration. In other words, to move beyond simple media content that provides complex answers to questions, people need to abandon implication (images) in favor of relation (video). Today’s developers have already taught machines to identify objects on video, form connections between them and describe their movements…

  05.07.2017

• Created Chip Churns out High-Dimensional Entangled Photons

  … AND blue, although the photons used here were infrared for telecommunications compatibility), enhancing the amount of information in a single photon. To date, Roberto Morandotti, who leads the research team, confirms: “The realization of a quantum system with at least one hundred dimensions using this approach, and the technology developed is readily extendable…

  29.06.2017

• Second Day of Geek Picnic: Evolution, Rats and Superstition

  …was relayed telepathically. “The researchers’ excitement died down when a mathematician wrote to them to propose putting a numbered label on each of the rats and using a random number generator to determine which rats should be put into the cage and which of them should then be sent to the first or the second group. Randomization h…

  26.06.2017

• What is EMI? Tips and Tools

  … Personal contact matters, so try to include interactive tasks in the program. Material Seeing as how students themselves rarely take notes in English, prepare handouts containing the basic themes and terms. Try to hand out the materials before a class so as to give students ample time to prepare questions. Make glossaries and reference lists. …

  23.06.2017

• ITMO Fellowship Stories: Italian Professor Shares his Thoughts about the Stradivarius of Science

  …Roberto Morandotti, physics, Professor at the National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS) in Montreal and author of several articles related to nonlinear optics, terahertz photonics and quantum optics came to St. Petersburg to join ITMO’s Fellowship Program. According to him, he is a real traveler. Indeed, Dr. Morandotti got extens…

  15.06.2017