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• How Can Russian Post Contribute to Smart City Development

  …constitution, lighting level, noise pollution, traffic situation, surface irregularities, and much more. If you add a camera, you can register different events, accidents, for instance. A sensor on a postbox can register the number of pedestrians and cyclists who pass by, and the postbox itself can be fixed with a Wi-Fi hotspot and other useful stuff. Russian Post…

  26.02.2018

• Academic Exchange in Brussels: Urban Science in the Heart of Europe

  …to their adherence to the principles of academic freedom, and both of the universities are fully independent and are not part of Belgium’s two (state and catholic) educational institution networks. One of the chief principles of the university’s work since its founding is the principle of freedom of inquiry. In the latest Times Higher Education ranking (WUR-2018) the…

  26.02.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …s and larger scale muscle movements during walking, running, sitting down and standing up. Diet can reduce risk of depression. People who eat vegetables, fruit and whole grains may have lower rates of depression over time. The DASH diet recommends fat-free or low-fat dairy products and limits foods that are high in saturated fats and sugar. Studies have shown heal…

  26.02.2018

• Russia by Rail: A First-Hand Experience

  …In Australia, people rarely catch long-distance trains, at least not for 24 hours. If you ask anyone, the only conceivable way to get from Perth to Sydney is by plane, or MAYBE by car - if you’re daring. In Russia, you can go basically anywhere by train: it’s one of the most reliable, easy, and mostly affordable means of travel, but let it be known that there are var…

  23.02.2018

• Sberbank President Herman Gref: ”R&D That People Ridiculed Yesterday is Taking Over Markets Today”

  …ing self-funding and self-developing system. Right now we see a community of people who unite to make money, but so far there’s no large investment in this field. No one is against blockchain, but if that’s what you want, you can’t prohibit cryptocurrencies – one can’t function without the other. Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is a slightly different story. It requires …

  22.02.2018

• App by ITMO Student will Help Vocational Schools Go Digital

  …sing similar domestic systems and apps for a long time already. Yet, in vocational schools, they were still doing many things manually as recently as several years ago. For instance, many vocational schools used the following attendance control procedure: the group president submitted a list of absent students to the dean’s office, where it was processed manually,…

  22.02.2018

• This Weekend in St.Petersburg: February 23-25

  …the large-scale “Takeda. Pain and Will” socio-cultural project,  the exhibition features all kinds of artistic works - from traditional paintings and calligraphy to videos and installations - by young artists from Russia and Japan. A most curious event will take place at the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden. Dedicated to a single plant - the lilac, the Lilac Febr…

  21.02.2018

• Digital Humanities: Education in 21st Century

  …d to code and the interfaces are very user-friendly – all you have to do is put in the right data, set the required parameters and get the answers to your queries,” – she explains. For instance, existing corpora (a corpus is a structured electronic collection of texts) of newspaper clippings, poetry or entire languages are used…

  21.02.2018

• Academic Mobility: ITMO Student on Studying in Poland

  …ion and the European Society for Engineering Education, Wrocław University of Science and Technology has established contacts with many of the world’s educational and research institutions (currently, it has collaboration agreements with 205 partners from 49 countries), and offers various joint degree programs. The university’s students participate in internat…

  20.02.2018

• ITMO Graduate’s Startup Uses Neural Networks to Make Online Ads Useful

  …e one and buy it – and you’ll be hounded by bicycle ads for months on end. Basically, most context-based advertising only uses demographic criteria – age, gender, etc.” – explains Vitaly Sotnikov. There’s another issue – no advertiser wants their ads in socially unacceptable videos. This is exactly what happened last November with a number of major companies who…

  20.02.2018