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• Leading the Way: 10th ITMO International Council Meeting Focused on Entrepreneurship and Tech Transfer

  …ntific and entrepreneurial agenda of today. Taking up the mantle from the previous meeting held in November of 2018 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, this gathering welcomed a new member into the Council’s world-class ranks. Dr. Christoph Badelt is a leading economist specializing on social policy who currently serves as Director of the Austrian Institute of Economic…

  27.06.2019

• St. Petersburg to Get a Unified Human Capital Development Platform

  …go, to solve this problem, we came up with the idea of this platform. Now it’s already much more than just a platform, it’s an entire digital ecosystem, which doesn’t generate new solutions but serves as an aggregator of automated services on a regional level. This system has its own database and services and can be easily integrated with the already existing and dev…

  27.06.2019

• IMS, DTGS and EVA: Key Events of the Information Society and Technology Week

  … participants get the most relevant information from the field of ICT and its applications in the issues of cultural heritage protection, as well as learn about the results of new projects in the field of culture, arts, archeology, and history that make use of ICT. Various scientific, project and technological achievements are also presented at the event. This…

  27.06.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: June 29-30

• Twitch, Twitter and Depression: Young Researchers Present Their Projects at ITMO University Poster Session

  …m YouTube is the high posting speed (the more spectators there are, there more messages there’ll be), short format and local emojis representing popular streamers. Trolling of newcomers and blaming the players for bad performance is the norm for Twitch.tv users. The gaming community is known for its toxicity anyway, and the platform acts like a kind of medium that se…

  26.06.2019

• ITMO University’s Youth Robotics Team Wins Gold in National Stage of World Robot Olympiad 2019

  … head of ITMO University’s Youth Robotics Laboratory.  ITMO star team’s (all the participants are champions of international competition in robotics) project represents a new take on a typical school space. The limelight was on the table: a school desk with a lamp. According to the project’s authors, the latter was inspired by the famous desk lamp which adorns t…

  26.06.2019

• 10 Things to Do in St. Petersburg As an International Student

  … buildings and courtyards of a historic foundry complete with cafes and artisan stores, this creative space is the perfect place to mix with the local Gen Y crowd. Discover New Holland The garden, the walkways paved with stone and surrounded by a sprawling herb garden, and the lush green lawns with stools and chairs make New Holla…

  25.06.2019

• White Nights Forum Experts on Combating Pseudoscience in Medicine

  …on and judgement.  Another problem comes in the form of the question: who is the expert in treatments and science? It would seem that doctors are, but one of the editors of New York Times argues that experts present a threat to the paper and that it would be better to collect different opinions as experts’ opinions often lead readers to the wrong conclusions becau…

  25.06.2019

• The Scent of VR: New Device by ITMO University Student

  …hen entering the action area of certain objects, the user presses the button, and the computer sends a signal to the device, which, in turn, start emitting certain scents. The new case will include various objects for users to interact with,” explains the author of the project.  The device comes together with a VR headset and can be used for watching 360° videos…

  25.06.2019

• Speak like a Russian: Science Words that Made it into Common Speech