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• ITMO University in 2018: A Year in Review

  … 2018 is the ITMO CODE. Our values, appreciation of fundamental thinking, and our professional and soft skills help us tackle global challenges. As part of ITMO CODE, a new set of core disciplines was launched in the 2018-2019 academic year that includes “Digital Culture,” “Entrepreneurial Culture,” “Creative Technologies,” “Critical Thinking,” and “Soft Skill…

  18.12.2018

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

  …ery fast, so the course needs to be updated every half a year. Today, people don’t stop learning when their formal education is over. You can learn your whole life, acquire new skills, or even change your profession. There is no competition between online and face-to-face education, they are just different instruments with the same objective. I think that the b…

  18.12.2018

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

  …l, to tell you the truth, the channel didn't work out well. Maybe it had something to do with the quality of filming, or the content, but the response was few. What is your new book about? While my previous book "Sell=Help" focused on sales, my recent one is dedicated to the application aspects of business development. Let's say you're a student who wants to la…

  18.12.2018

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

  …, but there is evidence indicating that if you start doing music it will somehow modify the structure of your brain (just like pretty much everything that you do). Good news: music really affects your brain People who do music professionally have something in their brain that distinguishes them from other people. These characteristics are statistically sign…

  17.12.2018

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

  …d be a great topic to work on. Our team at the University of Twente isn’t working on that particular topic right now, so it would be great to use my experience to do something new here in St. Petersburg. Even though I’m not in St. Petersburg all the time and only come here a few times a year, we always stay in touch. If my students want to discuss their ideas, the…

  17.12.2018

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

  …kload of our employees. For now, we're using Excel to do that, which is not really effective when working with large amounts of data. So, we've decided to consider introducing new instruments that would've made our job easier. For us, it's important that the product we'll be using is of Russian origin. Our main goal is not just getting a system with high usability, b…

  14.12.2018

• WorldSkills Winner on His Competition Experience

  … of refrigerating fluid into the freezer. This was the part I lost a lot of time on, which led to me losing my cool. That was partly because the equipment I had to work on was new to me; I’d practiced on a simpler version. I also experienced problems with the controller: the system was showing the wrong temperature value, and I thought this was due to the misoperatio…

  14.12.2018

• Movie Chitter-Chatter: Pride and Prejudice

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

  …The Supervisory Council, headed by Presidential Advisor Andrei Fursenko, will operate in its new line-up for the next five years. In addition to ITMO University’s Rector Vladimir Vasilyev, the Council’s staff now also includes: the director of the Special Astrophysical Observatory Yuri Balega, State Duma deputies Nikolai Govorin and Mikhail Emelyanov, the director of…

  13.12.2018

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

  …uality: I once took 10 random pictures from a few post-ironic meme communities and shuffled the captions between them. Users had a hard time telling the difference between the new ones and those that came before. Perhaps meta-irony is the next big thing. Here’s how to tell the difference: regular irony is saying “I’m a fool” while not actually being one. Post-iron…

  13.12.2018