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• ITMO University’s National Center for Cognitive Technologies Holds its First Session

  …s, for instance, can help provide better personnel management in organizations and maintain not just their efficiency and productivity, but also their mood and attention. ITMO.NEWS has previously spoken about such research to Vitaly Zubchenko, a member of the Expert Board at NeuroNet.  The same approach can be used to predict and analyze the opinion of social media u…

  14.09.2018

• Developing an Automated Approach to Recycling and Sorting Waste

  …he business processes in this field. As a result, we understood that there’s no common system that would’ve allowed to automate MSW recycling. What is more, we want to use our new platform to promote waste sorting. There are many citizens who want to do that, but it’s inconvenient for them because getting to a collection point takes too much time, or for other reason…

  13.09.2018

• DataArt Global Study: What are Russian Programmers Best At?

  …he general number of questions rose more than twofold, from 1,000 to 2,500. “We get lots of tasks-related comments on a daily basis, and this allows us to not only create new questions, but also improve the existing ones. It also helps us better evaluate the difficulty of the tasks, which has crucial implications for the quality of users’ Skillotron experience a…

  13.09.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 15-16

  …ckets cost 500 rub (a set of two lanterns is included in the price) and can be purchased at the entrance to the garden right before the event.    And there’s even more good news for classical music lovers! This Sunday, September 16, Gatchina’s Priory Palace (which is an adventure in itself) will host a concert by Fiori Musicali Orchestra featuring iconic classical…

  12.09.2018

• Transcending Humanity: Evolution of Technological Art

  …more and more artists choose to pursue this direction and want to learn all about how they could use technologies to boost their work. Modern scientific breakthroughs create a new kind of language which artists can draw on, but, however interesting and visually appealing this language may be, it’s important to look deeper and try to understand how these changes affec…

  12.09.2018

• ITMO’s New Academic Degree System: What You Need to Know

  …A year ago, ITMO.NEWS already spoke to ITMO University experts Maria Skvortsova, Dean of Faculty of Higher Qualification Expert Training, and Stanislav Reznik, Head of the Department for Collaboration with the Dissertation Council, about the university’s new privilege. They explained the advantages that the right to award academic degre…

  12.09.2018

• Best Places to Eat in Saint Petersburg: Ed Picks

  … do serve steamed pork buns, actually, but you get what I mean). Anastasiia Labunskaia, translator As both a coffee lover and a sweet tooth, I’m always in search of nice new coffee places with delicious desserts. And, surprisingly enough, they are not so easy to find. Most cafes you see on the streets are either chains with no soul, predictable menus, and blank…

  11.09.2018

• Project RENOIR and Digitalization in the News Industry

  …Digitalization and Its Challenges In recent years, the breakneck speed of technological development has had a great effect on the news industry. AI and other technologies shape the format and speed of news agencies’ everyday workflow and pose new challenges to the media community. Among them are a decli…

  11.09.2018

• Do It Yourself: How to Start Projects from Scratch and Make a Career out of Your Hobby

  …Why should you start your own project? It often happens that newly-graduated students can’t find work, become depressed, and end up taking the first job they are offered, even if it has nothing in common with their degree major. When my friends and I were graduating from university, we thought long and hard about this issue and came to a realization that professio…

  11.09.2018

• Scientists Create New Magnetic Nanosphere For Efficient Drug Delivery

  …les themselves should be non-toxic. Scientists are constantly optimizing methods of nanoparticle synthesis to reach these goals. Researchers from ITMO University designed a new synthesis method which allowed them to develop magnetite nanospheres with a thrombolytic drug inside. Such spheres have a high magnetic moment necessary for accurate targeted delivery, a hi…

  10.09.2018