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• I Am a Professional: Over 80 ITMO Students Become Diplomates of National Student Competition

  …s competition, coordinating as many as five of its tracks: the veterans “Programming and Information Technologies”, “Photonics” and “Informational and Cyber Security”, and the newcomers “Big Data” and “Robotics” (this one was co-organized with Far Eastern Federal University). Taking on the role of a general partner of ITMO-coordinated tracks “Programming and Informat…

  29.03.2019

• Urban Change Week in St. Petersburg

• Get to Know ITMO's Robotics and Control Specialists

  …d Control What's the first app you check in the morning? – Instagram. Favorite spot in St. Petersburg? – Petrogradsky Island. Favorite scientific theory or formula? – Newton’s Second Law. Best movie of all time? – Snatch. When did you last stay late at work, and why? – I stay late at the office all the time because I get so involved in work that I miss…

  28.03.2019

• ScienceMedia Forum Participants on Their Work and Modern Journalism

  …that after we left Diakont, we had two and a half hours worth of recordings we needed to unpack and put to writing straight away. The team we had was exceptional; everyone knew their line of trade to a T and did it as well as they could. We were helped by a designer named Katya, she was from ITMO, and this was the first time I witnessed a girl writing code, right …

  28.03.2019

• Business Software: Seminar at Dassault Systèmes Company

  …ir own startup, attract investments and participate in events hosted by ITMO University as a real company. For Bee Pitron and Dassault it’s not about money, but about teaching new specialists to use their products.” …

  28.03.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 30-31

  …her jazz get-together, this time dedicated to one of the genre’s most well-loved greats, Frank Sinatra. Performing his biggest hits such as Strangers in the Night, My Way, and New York, New York will be two vagrant birds from the Big Apple itself, jazz guitarist Ilya Lushtak and tenor saxophonist Todd Herbert. They will be accompanied b…

  27.03.2019

• How Sciences Falter: Historian on Dermatoglyphics and Phrenology

  …don't change over one's lifetime. You are born with a particular skin pattern and number of dermal ridges, and they stay with you for the rest of your life. There is sometimes news in the media about research that disproves it, and that these patterns can change. Still, if you read the research thoroughly, you'll learn that it had to do with errors of identification:…

  27.03.2019

• Robotic Trolleys, Smart Drones and Full Automation: How Things Work at Unilever Factory in St. Petersburg

  …s. What also took me by surprise was how automated the production process is: people are only responsible for controlling the most important steps and packaging. What was also new to me was wearing special protective clothing and head bonnets; it’s all very clean in there, an indicator of the producer’s responsibility for the quality of their products”. Opportun…

  27.03.2019

• Anecdotes: Telling Jokes the Russian Way

  …ted with them. When you’re telling an anecdote, it doesn’t really matter if everyone already knows it. In fact, telling a borodatiy ("bearded", i.e. very old) anecdote in a new or somewhat different way is much appreciated; also, knowing the same anecdotes often makes people experience a feeling of fellowship. Quotes from popular anecdotes may be used to explai…

  26.03.2019

• Scientist Evgeny Belyaev on the Challenges of Video Encoding, Limits of Compression, and Future of Streaming

  …used video coding standard. It was released in 2003 and is present in almost any existing device or video streaming service. There is an unspoken rule that every 10 years a new standard emerges that is two times better than the previous one, which means that it allows us to compress a video to half its size and retain the same visual quality. In 2013, the emerging…

  26.03.2019