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• That Blockchain Life: Cryptocurrency Experts on Field’s Challenges and Opportunities

  …n their lives. How to bring crypto economy to the streets? We have to end our development dilly-dallying. There are enough projects already, we have to focus on uniting things instead. We have to go out of our labs into the real world. It’s simple: we pick a solution, we find a suitable application, we pilot it, and if it works, we introduce it. This is no rocket sci…

  14.11.2018

• ITMO Student Picked as Torchbearer of 2019 Winter Universiade

  …ollowed a friend’s example and decided to take up kickboxing. Did that result in any injuries? It did, at first. But I didn’t give up, choosing to try and do better, instead. Sports helped me become disciplined, responsible and resilient. Those are good qualities in life. I had a very tight schedule in my last year of school when I had to juggle classes, tr…

  14.11.2018

• Studying Russian in Russia

  …ongoing quest. Tara, from Iran, says: “The soft letters for me were an absolute nightmare”. One of the letters of the alphabet looks like a little “b” but it has no sound [ь]. Instead, it makes the previous letter “soft”. Making letters sound softer is extremely challenging for the untrained and foreign ear, but to a Russian speaker, the sound is drastically differen…

  13.11.2018

• New York University Professor’s Take on Future of Digital Cities

  …d and developing countries Transport and communication networks lay the foundation for sustainable development in developing countries. Mobile data research give scientists insight into many aspects of citizens’ mobility. However, such research is primarily conducted in the most developed regions of the world, which comprise only one-third of the world population.…

  13.11.2018

• When VR met AR: ITMO University Students Created a SMARRt Robot with Lots of Potential

  …e nifty robot was their first real-life project. According to the project leader Alexey Shchekoldin, the group encountered many unexpected obstacles, but these challenges only inspired them to carry on.  “We faced a great deal of problems we’d never even have thought of,” shares Alexey. “When working on a wheelbase, for example, it took us a lot of time to figur…

  13.11.2018

• Do Smart Traffic Lights Dream of Self-Driving Cars? Traffic Expert Nil Podozerov Thinks So

  …mart traffic lights only in name and seem to not have a clue as to what the technology really is. I myself am very wary of this term. ‘Smart’ is more of a quality that pertains to a living organism, not a machine. But because our company has long been working on traffic lights with complex ‘stuffing’, I’ve attempted to find an optimal definition of what makes a tr…

  12.11.2018

• Kunstkamera: Russia’s Bizarre First Museum

  …ends and servants) and taxidermied animals, its real “jewel” is a great number of embryology, human anatomy and teratology specimens: a whole freak show of vats with Siamese twins, cyclopes, malformed organs and such. As disturbing as they might seem, Kunstkamera’s exhibits are definitely unique, and can well give you the idea of what science was once like: most o…

  09.11.2018

• ITMO Scientists Win Scopus Award Russia 2018

  …ut in Latin America, Asia, Europe and Russia. The amount of one’s publications is indexed through Scopus, the world’s largest interdisciplinary citation database which contains more than 23,000 scientific journals put out by 5,000 publishing houses from around the world. Data from Scopus is recognized by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education as one …

  09.11.2018

• Go with the Flow, Ask Questions, and Shoot for the Stars: Lessons from a Gamedev Meetup

  …t you’ll also get answers. And in time, when it’ll be you who answers these rookie questions, you’ll be invited to a chat with some in-depth professional discussions going on. Instead of just sitting there and mindlessly scrolling through social media, it’s always better to be proactive and ask questions. The community will help you with your growth. Look after yo…

  09.11.2018

• Grant Applications No Longer a Headache: Potanin Scholarship Lifehacks from Successful Contestants

  …mpetitions The Potanin Scholarship Program isn’t the only opportunity for university lecturers to get additional funding for their professional activities. Higher education institutions regularly publish information on grant competitions (at ITMO, this is done through the university’s intranet system ISU). You can also keep up with scholarship open calls on other …

  08.11.2018