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• Switching to Kotlin: Books, Courses, and Tips

  …rogramming language compatible with Java and JavaScript. Its features are designed to simplify programmers’ everyday work and help increase productivity. As the staff at JetBrains point out, it combines eloquence, expressiveness, efficiency, and ease of learning. Kotlin has been in development since 2010, with its source code being distributed under the Apache 2 f…

  07.02.2019

• ITMO Scientists Analyzed Gaming Behavior to Predict Players’ Gender

  …. Garnering the data, the researchers used the service Player.me, which allows for comparing users’ Steam accounts with their social media profiles on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. This was needed to search for links between players’ gaming behavior and their demographic characteristics such as age and gender. As a result, the scientists developed a model that …

  07.02.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 9-10

  … posh watches are silent-running? I wouldn’t know, sorry for bad PR that would certainly kick you off the market, Rolex). It’s annual too (with this year's ball being the 14th installment in the series), just to annoy us plebs year in year out. But the music’s great (this year ball’s stars including the virtuoso Italian direttore Massimo Zanetti, breathtaking Geor…

  06.02.2019

• "Patient Sapiens: a Guide to Herbs and Pills": Journalist Andrei Vodovozov on Medicine, Cannabis and Puppies

  …ncentration of the active agents. We can't guarantee that every plant will have the same concentration. This is why we now buy aspirin, as we know for sure that each pill contains 0,5 grams of the active ingredient. In theory, we could go and pick some white willow bark, brew it and use as an antipyretic. Still, its effect will be impossible to control. In some cases…

  06.02.2019

• Getting to Know Russian Literature, Part 2: the 20th Century

  …mind more openly, and was more liberal, to a particular degree. Also, many Soviet sci-fi writers focused on the more philosophical aspects of futurism, which provides quite an insight into how entire generations of people perceived the world around them, and their hopes for the future. As for the notable authors, that would be Aleksey Tolstoy in the early 20th centur…

  05.02.2019

• DigiRockStars Venture Fund Rep Steven Balliano: Don’t Go The Traditional Way

  …The traditional approach Everyone who has ever tried to launch their business project, traveled that classical path: the search for inspiration, the choice of the concept idea, the start of the project’s implementation. In Finland, if you were to ask your family their thoughts on your idea, chances are that they won’t pat you on the back and say how great you are.…

  05.02.2019

• Falcon Heavy Launch, Cancer Treatment, and Neutrinos: Top Science News of 2018

  …Alexander Khokhlov, a space instrumentation engineer at the Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, the President of the Youth Section of the North-West division of the Russian Cosmonautics Federation One of the major highlights of the last year was the Falcon Heavy launch, which took place almost a year ago, on February 6, 2018. Th…

  05.02.2019

• Different Volunteering, Eco Camps and Fresh Perspective on Things: Belgian Gloria Sagaradze on Interning at ITMO

  …ernship at the Belgian embassy in Lebanon. This was a good starting point for me: because it was such a small embassy, I didn’t just have to sit at my desk doing boring tasks. Instead, I had the opportunity to accompany the Belgian ambassador and first secretary to really important meetings with the Lebanese government to tackle the implementation of the mine-clearin…

  05.02.2019

• International Year of Periodic Table Proclaimed Open in Paris

  …search and Innovation at the Ministry for Higher Education and Research of France Alain Beretz and other notables from a wide range of eminent research, educational and social institutions from over 80 countries. Representing ITMO University at the event were Mikhail Kurushkin, an associate professor at the Research and Educational Center of Chemical Engineering and …

  04.02.2019

• Russian Scientists Conduct Research on European XFEL

  … Roman Reznik from the International Research Center of Functional Materials and Optoelectronic Devices. Among the researchers was also Vladimir Strokov from the Paul Scherrer Institute. The experiment lasted for ten days. The scientists exposed two nanocrystals grown at ITMO to two lasers. One of the lasers excited a powerful optical impulse, which caused osc…

  04.02.2019