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• Virtual Influencers: What Are They?

  …wo other notable figures in the virtual influencer movement are Miquela Sousa and Shudu Gram. Miquela is a 19-year old Brazilian-American from California who first appeared on Instagram in 2016. While her posts were quite typical, consisting mostly of food photos, clothes, and selfies with friends, the public soon realized that Miquela wasn’t real. Along with Bermuda…

  19.12.2018

• ITMO University in 2018: A Year in Review

  … Gulag History Museum. Degree Power After being granted the right to grant PhD degrees, this year ITMO developed a transparent system for high-quality thesis defense and instigated a new approach to forming interdisciplinary thesis boards. These changes will ultimately make it easier for ITMO graduates to work with their international colleagues on joint resear…

  18.12.2018

• ITMO University Lecturers on Benefits of Using Online Courses in Teaching

  …art from having to pay for the course certificate, another downside of online courses is that the format they come in is de-personalized. What makes this an issue is that, for instance, some students know the theory perfectly well, but they may experience difficulties in making the computations, and they submit wrong answers as a result. When you’re working in the on…

  18.12.2018

• Andrei Maiboroda, Writer and Entrepreneur: If You Work a Lot, You Are Destined to Succeed

  …ind practical advice most useful. The book is absolutely practice-oriented. Each of its 12 chapters is dedicated to a particular step of launching a new business. It all begins with choosing a field to work in. According to my approach, you shouldn't choose it based on some market development prospects, growth rates or anything like that. The most important factor…

  18.12.2018

• Musicians: Nature or Nurture? Science Journalist Asya Kazantseva Explains

  …ents, that they had only been tested on their spatial intelligence, and that the positive effect named only lasted for ten minutes. The mass media busted with a fit of endless instructions on how parents need to force their kids into listening to Mozart on a daily basis. Listening to music is better than sitting in silence with nothing to do From this point…

  17.12.2018

• University of Twente’s Stefano Stramigioli: Robotics Is About Giving Machines Life

  …u been able to achieve? It is indeed a very small, and yet highly efficient, robot, made entirely with plastic. The latter part is crucial, as that’s what allows it to work inside an MRI unit. Conducting a biopsy during an MRI scan greatly increases its accuracy: it lets us see the abnormalities in the tissue, locate tumors and direct the system to that area. We c…

  17.12.2018

• Yaks and the Milky Way: Warming up on a Cold Day

  …When friends ask me what I want from Russia, I almost always say instant soup. They do a double take and I ask them to go to a Lenta store and buy a bag of “Tomato and Basil” and “Chicken Noodle with Croutons,” but not the creamy kind. That adds to my overall image of their slightly insane friend, but they do it nevertheless, and on col…

  17.12.2018

• 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