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• Going Extreme — Active & Adventure Sports in Saint Petersburg

  …ng rinks will be opened. Visiting public outdoor skating rinks was somewhat a tradition in the Soviet Union, which is still definitely worth trying. To sum up, if you need a distraction, there’s much to do in Saint Petersburg — we’ve only mentioned several of the many options you have, and any advice is, obviously, subjective. Still, trying them out may be a good …

  29.11.2016

• Young People from all over the World to Gather in St. Petersburg

  …According to Renata Abdulina, chairman of the Committee for Youth Affairs and Interaction with Non-Profit Organizations, the largest section of the forum is devoted to the World Festival of Youth and Students, which will take place in October 2017. The meeting will fuse together 20,000 people from 150 countries. More than 40,000 volunte…

  29.11.2016

• Technology Brokers School Trains Specialists to Act as Mediators between Science and Industry

  …s develops a market place with extra options such as job market analysis and individual educational and career planning. One other student presented two projects: a service for interaction of salesmen and customers, which takes into account their locations. The second one is an app, which makes it easier for contractors to receive money from their clients. Some st…

  29.11.2016

• Formulas for Making Right Decisions

  …"burglars" think that they are following the right way and nobody spies on them but specialists that can monitor what they do and understand what opportunities they have. All actions made by both hackers and data protectors can be described by means of formulas. Using them it is possible to predict the intention and goals. The researcher used Vladimir Lefeb…

  28.11.2016

• ITMO "Raps the Scrap" at the World Robot Olympiad

  …te. Igor Lositsky. Credit: social networks "When we start working on a project, we all share our thoughts, and thus a small idea becomes really detailed, we think up new functions and options. The "Open" category at the WRO is the most unpredictable one; there are no precise tasks in it. Yet, we are a creative group, so participating in another category wou…

  28.11.2016

• The Ultimate Guide to the Russian Banya

  …he steam or over krevetki (shrimp) and champagne in the common area. (The women’s department, I’ve been reliably informed, was full of their pneumatic molls, with fake tans and liposuction scars.) These days, while Moscow’s new middle class have reclaimed the Sanduny, as it’s affectionately known, this is undoubtedly still a place where…

  25.11.2016

• Mind Games: Quests as a Way to Learn and Have Fun at the Same Time

  …The dictionary definition of the word "Quest' is: "a long or arduous search for something.' In medieval times, when the word first appeared, it meant: "An adventurous expedition undertaken by a knight or knights — for example, the quest of the Holy Grail.' But the modern fad of Quests actually had its origins not with King Arthur, but with the first crude video games…

  25.11.2016

• How Can We Affect the Evolution Theory Today?

  …This book became the base of the evolutional theory, according to which, natural selection and adaptation are the main engines of speciation. Later such phenomena as genetic drift and flow as well as mutations were also marked as the mechanizms of evolution. In different periods of the world’s history, the theory was criticized and reinterpreted in various ways. In …

  24.11.2016

• Internet of Magic Things: How to Improve IoT Systems

  …cles, and constantly check the result. All these approaches include design and maintenance of user scenarios. Here, one faces a problem, as basic scenarios cannot be applied to interaction with Internet of Things (IoT). For example, one of IoT’s characteristics is that each network node, which appears when one installs a new device, provokes plenty of scenario trans…

  23.11.2016

• ITMO Master’s Student Is in the Top-6 of the TopCoder Open 2016

  …), but I was so wrong! Now I see that this platform is the best in the world." Twelve participants were selected to compete in TopCoder Open Algorithm semifinals based on online selection rounds and the Wildcard Round. ITMO University was represented by Gennadi Korotkevich (tourist), Vladimir Smykalov and alum Evenii Kapun (eatmore), but only Mr. Smykalov made it in…

  22.11.2016