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• Exploring Innopolis: Russia's Silicon Valley

  …write a motivation letter, as well as send in some letters of recommendation, but I didn't do it, for I doubted if I indeed needed this program. Then I found out that the admission committee for Innopolis comes to St. Petersburg to conduct on-site examinations, which meant that I didn’t have to go to Tatarstan, where Innopolis is located, to take the tests. So I wrot…

  05.08.2016

• I, Chatterbot: Why Virtual Conversational Partners are on Trend Again

  …rs, as well as a centralized bot catalog, while Telegram, for instance, doesn't have one: one has to look them up in some "Ten best bots for smth." ratings. There are few extensions with cats or memes in Slack, but there such bots as StatsBot: it can understand and handle requests in natural language, and, for example, send diagrams answering different user requests,…

  05.08.2016

• Big City Traffic Made Effective: from Paid Parking to Life-Hacks

  …ve said no. There are two ways to carry out such projects: one is to just build the road cause we like the idea, the other is to model the situation and choose the optimal decision. There are numerous paradoxes to the field of transportation, including those like "the optimal decision for everyone leads to everyone's death". There is…

  05.08.2016

• Jaime Lerner: “Don't Trust Pessimists”

  … usually say that a car is like your mother-in-law. You have to have good relationships with her but she cannot take command of your life. Besides, more than 50% of carbon emissions come from cars. That is why the rarely we use cars the best quality of life we have. The idea of mobility is based on connection between all transport systems. In 1983 we proposed …

  04.08.2016

• Bioinformatics Summer School: Where Tech and Biology Come Together

  … attended the school where for five days they worked on research projects, presented at a special conference and enjoyed presentations by Russian and overseas scientific professionals. The school was organized by the Bioinformatics Institute and St. Petersburg Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Today sequencing technologies are developing and bec…

  03.08.2016

• Brain Fitness Games: Can Intelligence Really be Boosted?

  …rcuitries of the human brain which can be used in restoring cognitive and locomotor functions in people after a stroke, as well as help patients with mental affections in remission, psychosis and neurosis. The rehabilitation is carried out in a game framework: the person sees his body in VR space on a screen, and his movements are shown in an obscure and comical way.…

  02.08.2016

• A Student from Iraq: “Studying in Russia was my Dream”

• The Master’s Program Enrollment Campaign: Bringing in Best Students and Training Elite Specialists

  …ty positions itself as a “university for Master and Post-Graduate students”. Please tell, what exactly is conferred by this concept?  One of the goals proclaimed in the mission of ITMO University is training elite specialists ready to work in the modern conditions of a fast-changing world and ensure advanced development of science and technology. Obviously, such …

  01.08.2016

• Virtual Reality Classrooms: Education of the Future

  …ontent and special furniture. "We are going to equip the classrooms with “turnkey” systems, providing not only equipment and content, but also furniture suitable for immersion in virtual reality. A usual chair is not suitable. VR furniture needs to rotate around its axis, although “bar” chairs without a back and office chairs on wheels also aren’t suitable. Ther…

  01.08.2016

• Five Things We Loved Last Week

  …Le Corbusier. UNESCO. Beer tastes better with music.  Just in time for summer festivals, the Brussels Beer Project in collaboration with UK band The Editors came to a conclusion that music, have along with a range of multisensory information, can influence how much a person likes the taste of beer. Frontiers in Psychology. Photo credit: Business Insider.    …

  30.07.2016