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• InnoJam "TimeHack": Real Options Theory and Machine Learning

  … help with was the absence of an effective tool for managing the developer team and monitoring the tasks their IT specialists work on. Searching for an effective management instrument is the internal task of my department that focuses on supporting solutions developed for Gazprom Neft. I have a great many employees, most of which work in different time zones and r…

  14.12.2018

• WorldSkills Winner on His Competition Experience

  … equipment. After that, during the second day of the competition, participants assemble the device and put it in operation. Every participant is assigned an expert. For instance, Alexsander Rubtsov, an associate professor at the Faculty of Cryogenic Engineering, was chosen as an expert from ITMO University. Experts are supposed to coordinate participants from …

  14.12.2018

• Movie Chitter-Chatter: Pride and Prejudice

  … ghastly throbbing voice? Spasmodic eyelash batting? Intense staring? I mean, it looks like he himself is aware of how bad the whole sitch is, so he just lets his worst acting instincts push him off the crumbling edge into this bottomless abyss of infamy. But I would tell you one thing: this is a Mr. Darcy Keira Knightley’s Elizabeth Bennet truly deserves. I don’t…

  14.12.2018

• ITMO Rector Vladimir Vasilyev Appointed to Russian Science Foundation’s Supervisory Council

  …ory Yuri Balega, State Duma deputies Nikolai Govorin and Mikhail Emelyanov, the director of National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology Ivan Dedov, the President of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations Alexander Dynkin, the Russian Minister of Science and Higher Education Mikhail Kotjukov, the Rector of Pirogov Russian National Research M…

  13.12.2018

• On the Origin of Memes: Meme Scientist Explains Post-Irony and Future of Internet Culture

  …ies the deeper meaning of memes from the points of view of culture, psychology, and sociology. Its founding father is said to be the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene proposed a basic unit of cultural transmission: a meme. A meme to memetics is what a gene is to genetics. Both evolve and propagate according to the l…

  13.12.2018

• Microbial Fuel Cell, Space Station, and Electronic Guide: Finals of Quantoriada Competition

  …p with by the end of the first round and share about their progress. As I have already mentioned, the main task of the final round is to come up with a working solution,” explains the competition's coordinator Ivan Riazanov. Yaroslava Timirbaeva and Yaroslava Mikheeva, VIINELTEAM team, 9-11th grade, Penza We were given only one task: to develop a micr…

  13.12.2018

• Techies Tell: Best Podcasts for Data Aficionados

  …news in data analysis over a cup… of something, helping you stay on top of the newest developments in the field. The article was originally written in Russian by Sophia Kulminskaya for Megabyte Media. Translated by David Prowse.…

  13.12.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 15-16

• How New Advanced Materials Help Fight Bacteria – and Cancer

  …ble or the IR spectra. The absorbed energy can be reproduced with a lower energy rate or transferred onto metal atoms. Changing the type of metal will have an effect, too: for instance, the element Europium will emit red light, while Terbium emits green light. Anti-bacterial materials The world today is facing the issue of bacterial resistance to pharmaceutical…

  12.12.2018

• Winter in St. Petersburg: Perks, Gripes, and Getaways

  …uch better at speed wanted to upgrade my skills to actual downhill skiing but that seemed like a quick way to lose some valuable limbs, and I was perfectly happy with mine, so instead, I opted for a Finnish sled, which is essentially a chair on metal runners. You kick off with one foot and glide forward, going nowhere too fast. This year, I plan to upgrade it to t…

  11.12.2018