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  • Two-Time ICPC Champion Niyaz Nigmatullin: Life Outside the Code

    …lso changed my life in some way. And, without a doubt, anyone who has ever said that I made a mistake in something also left an impact on my life in some way or another. It must have been nerve-racking to participate in your first competitions. How did you manage that? Fear is something rational. Most of the time, you’re afraid of some consequences in the futu…

    18.06.2019

  • Made in Russia: Bad Brand or Unexplored Potential?

    …As a dictionary would tell us, a creative person is someone who intuitively feels what must be done to come up with a new idea or solution, which detail to add to change everything, and how to create new things or deconstruct and reassemble the usual into unusual. That seems to me like an apt description of us, Russians, in our everyday life. This day-to-day reali…

    17.06.2019

  • Roscosmos Opens Admissions for Astronauts

    …rk with space technologies and camerawork skills. A good command of computer software and at least one foreign language (English, Spanish, Italian, German or French) is also a must. In addition to that, applicants are expected to be fluent in Russian and have a thorough knowledge of world history and Russian astronautics. Results of last year’s admission On Aug…

    17.06.2019

  • Quantum Computing: Challenges, Prospects, and Current Developments

    …data doesn’t live forever. It is highly dependent on how we interact with our environment. Any interaction that creates noise in a quantum system kills the data, and therefore must be prevented. When we make changes, the wave function implodes and the calculation must be done from the start. In a sense, quantum computers work like a pro…

    10.06.2019

  • Gennady ‘Tourist’ Korotkevich: My First Defeat Only Made Me Want to Win More

    …gs. My dad keeps track of that. Not long ago, a boy from Gomel came to the computer science competition at ITMO University and really wanted to take a picture with me. That must mean I’m setting some kind of example. As for me, when I was just starting out in school, Petr Mitrichev was winning many competitions. You could say I was taking cues from him. He …

    06.06.2019

  • Good Business: How Business Simulations Help Create Social Initiatives

    … has picked its topic, the players begin to brainstorm ways of reducing the severity of the issue in question and business models conducive to these solutions. Participants must take into account the social effects of their business as well as its economic aspects, such as who will be its beneficiaries, which issue it will solve, the volume of contribution made by…

    06.06.2019

  • How Cerevrum Inc Uses VR to Boost Social Skills

    …ractive manual on how to act when selling a particular product. When they put on the headset, they find themselves in a simulated act of sale, in front of a customer that they must speak to. The system gives them hints on what to say and how to behave. You work with some of Russia’s largest companies like X5 Retail Group, Yota, Rostelecom, SurgutNefteGas, and Lero…

    04.06.2019

  • Song of the Month: May 2019

    …ester. Seriously, you can’t ever go wrong with a band that’s from Manchester. The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, Buzzcocks, Take That, The Verve, Oasis: there must be something in the city’s water that makes Mancunians so incredibly talented. But my absolute favorite band from Manchester are The Stone Roses, and that’s whom I’ve been listening to the…

    31.05.2019

  • St. Petersburg European University’s Nikolay Rudenko on Fixing the Divide Between Tech and Humanities

    …rialization of society: engineers, scientists, and airline officials. Techno-depression was born from techno-pessimism, which is an idea that technology brings evil and must be gotten rid of. Today’s techno-pessimists are mostly members of humanities or the conservative classes (such as the dwellers of small towns unable to adjust to new developments). On the …

    28.05.2019

  • Get to Know ITMO’s Soft Skills Lecturers

    …ement Why are soft skills so important for techies? Soft skills are all about time management, creativity and communication. Time management and career planning is a must for specialists in all fields, especially technologies, which put a premium on precision and efficiency. Creativity has to do with being flexible, thinking outside of the box, and having a…

    23.05.2019