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• Citizen Science: How to Contribute to Research From the Comfort of Your Home

  …of California San Francisco and the citizen science platform Eureka, aims to track and study the spread of coronavirus in order to prevent similar future scenarios. Volunteers must fill out a short form and then report on their symptoms and movements every day. The project is developed by the same team as the Health eHeart Study, a long-term heart disease study. A…

  15.04.2020

• ITMO University and Yandex Launch New Master’s Program in Data Analytics

  …Working with data is one of today’s most in-demand specializations in the world of IT, and the processing of large amounts of data is a must for companies in practically all sectors of the modern economy. Generating new transport routes, creating new materials, developing modern software, online translators, and smart cameras performing facial recognition – all this …

  14.04.2020

• ITMO University Scientists Create App to Calculate COVID-19 Infection Risks Based on Human Behavior

  …untry may affect its infection rates, thus showing the user how their own actions may increase their risks of contracting the disease. “Current-day epidemiological models must be based not only, and not primarily, on medical data, but on social data,” says Sergey Ivanov, a head of laboratory at the National Center for Cognitive Technologies. “To demonstrate that…

  13.04.2020

• How Reading and Literature Changed in the Digital Age

  …tory, culture, natural sciences, and psychology. Reading was absolutely necessary.  Plus, most people were reading pretty much the same books.People aged 35-50 have similar must-read lists, and these choices seem absolutely natural to us. They form a cultural code shared by everyone. Today, it’s not the same at all: reading is not the main information source an…

  10.04.2020

• Life After MVP: How Startups Can Avoid the Post-Acceleration “Crash and Burn”

  …support of mentors and experts and that’s when things start to fall apart. For many, life after MVP is a nightmare come true. To assess your startup’s growth prospects, you must constantly analyze the market and keep track of the segments and value offers you’ll encounter. For startup founders, this is an opportunity to solve the issue of market positioning and in…

  10.04.2020

• Yuzhny Satellite City to Feature New Transport Hub

  …campus. “The development of the transport infrastructure in the southern planning area will be synchronized with the district’s development. It’s clear that ITMO Highpark must be provided with sufficient transport infrastructure. For the innovation center to be fully operational, we have to guarantee the mobility of the university’s students and staff, the citiz…

  09.04.2020

• Window to the World: ITMO Programmers’ New App Helps Combat Self-Isolation Loneliness

  …s we’ve become accustomed to are falling apart as people spend days inside their homes avoiding most contact with the outside world. Even those who are still commuting to work must abstain from dropping into their favorite bar or meeting with friends at a cafe. Trying to make use of newfound free time, some have taken up programming, some binge on TV shows, and other…

  08.04.2020

• Entrepreneur Vaagn Ogannisian: Businesses Must Make Friends With Universities

  … We do. We’re always glad to see them. It’s important for a business to maintain a good relationship with universities, as they are where talent comes from. As a business, you must sometimes help universities out, because raising specialists is our common goal. You began at one university and graduated from another. Was this a positive change? I believe the…

  03.04.2020

• How Statistics Can Skew Facts – and How We Can Learn to Trust It Again

  …ypothesis: they have ten patients who they’d like to study and, based on that small sample group, to put forth a scientific assertion about the general population. First, they must propose a null hypothesis – one that’s formulated as the lack of differences, lack of influence, lack of effect. Maybe these scientists have invented a new vaccine and wish to test …

  03.04.2020

• ITMO Students Can Now Exchange Esports Wins for P.E. Grades

  …ve, Dota 2, and Clash Royale. ITMO University’s Rector Vladimir Vasilyev was the first to appreciate the advantages of this approach. To receive one’s pass grade, a student must accumulate 100 points. To find out more about this initiative, visit KronBars’ esports discipline page.…

  01.04.2020