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• We Are the Champions: ITMO’s English Courses at "Sirius" Center for Talented Children

  …pecialized lectures on all subjects, workshops, and watch movies in English". It's not easy to join the "Sirius" center, one has to pass the competitive selection, but its totally worth it. The main concept of the center is balanced and creative development of personality, so at Sirius, best lecturers work with the talented children, and leading universities, corp…

  21.11.2016

• Kazakhstan. Kyrgyzstan. Tajikistan. Not Countries That Are Right at the Top of Everyone’s Travel Bucket List

  …ins and enticing eastern architecture as its brother republics. But Tajikistan seems to have evaded Russian influence to a much greater degree than the other Stans. It offers totally unique adventure options such as a jaunt along the breathtaking Pamir Highway, a paradise for hikers, trekkers, cyclists or just curious car-bound daytrippers. It snakes through the ravi…

  17.11.2016

• Gutenberg’s Lounge — Machines and Intuition

  …ion This model can explain intuition, as well. We are likely to feel what we call intuition when we use this implicit knowledge. Note that when we "feel" intuition, we are totally sure that we know how to do something, while we can't explain why. Another example: almost everyone has experienced this feeling when something seems really familiar, and one feels like …

  17.11.2016

• GenerationS Teaches Students to Sell their Ideas

  … in 3D modeling and Virtual Reality fields. A team from St. Petersburg plans to launch an edutainment center for graphic designers and specialists in allied disciplines. The total amount of teams is 26. The participants will attend lectures and workshops of GenerationS till the middle of December.…

  17.11.2016

• Per Aspera Ad Astra — the Problems of Modern Cyberphysics

  …There are also action networks, where information itself partakes in decision making when controlling physical objects. Here, the requirements to security and reliability are totally different. Internet banking is my favorite example. Everyone uses it, sometimes failures occur, when a transaction goes the wrong way. It's regrettable, but it can be fixed. Still, if th…

  14.11.2016

• Higher Education Ranking: What Russian Universities Are the Best?

  … students, their parents and university lecturers evaluated the quality of university activities in terms of their experience; experts evaluated websites of universities. The total amount of respondents is over 108,000 from all over Russia. The survey was provided by the Social Guide project supported by the Government. Its main target is informing society about a…

  09.11.2016

• Unity Day Celebrations: Festival of Light and the "Night of Arts" in Saint Petersburg

  … 20:00, The Festival of Light will start at the Saint Isaac’s Square. This year, the festival is going to beat Saint Petersburg’s record for using multimedia projectors: the total power of them will exceed 1,200,000 lumen. The festival will incorporate the whole ensemble of the square; separate 3D mapping shows and "lighting symphonies" will be shown on the frontis…

  03.11.2016

• USA Investor on Startups and Challenges Females Face in Business

  …ds on the industry. If it has to do with manufacturing, I want the entrepreneur to already have the product and be able to present it. In biotech industry, for instance, it's totally different. This field has a lot to do with testing, so the startuper has to work out collaborations with partners who will help with research, introducing the innovative product to the m…

  03.11.2016

• ITMO University Won a Grant by Horizon 2020 for Smart City Development

  …g received a support from the federal state program gives us an opportunity to take part in the bloTope on equal terms with European colleagues," noted Mr. Bikkulov. The total amount of applications by Russian organizations was nine — three of them, including ITMO’s, were approved. Other candidates didn’t manage to meet the strict requirements of the contest. Ac…

  01.11.2016

• Cancer Detection: How To Stay Out of Harm’s Way

  … similar to a malignant tumor. Then, a physician has to take a sample. The results come more than a week — during which, under the condition of stress, the patient can become totally exhausted. So, it's not always rational to do the screening. If the patient does not have any symptoms or complaints, then lifetime prevalence can be a reason to conducting a screening.…

  31.10.2016