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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 31 – November 1, 2020

  …Zhang Huan: In the Ashes of History exhibition  September 9 – November 12, 2020  ​The State Hermitage Museum  500 rubles  Zhang Huan is a contemporary Chinese artist who uses a wide variety of techniques in his works, most notably applying incense ash collected from Buddhist temples. Another of his notable techniques is using photographs and wood carvi…

  28.10.2020

• Cognitive Science Tales for Halloween: 4 Mysterious Cases

  …a weird bond with the tamping iron, but otherwise was a well-functioning human, rather affectionate with his nephews and nieces. In my opinion, this makes for a good Halloween story for though it is tremendously scary, especially for those with a vivid imagination, it also demonstrates the wonders of our brain’s plasticity – which is its ability to adapt to changed c…

  27.10.2020

• IT Careers: Veeam Developer on How to Do a Test Task and Get a Job Offer

  …itten: structuring, disassembling, sorting into folders, and checking it. A few more life hacks: Don't forget error processing; Make a readMe, a TODO, and a History of commits; Avoid recursion in your code, go for loops; Avoid duplication. It will be crucial during assessment; You are often asked to briefly describe the architecture and algorit…

  26.10.2020

• Russian Horror Stories: What Do We Find Spooky?

  …ar structure. At first, there is a warning not to do something, then the protagonist doesn’t pay attention to it, and then they are punished for that. For example, one popular story is about a girl who was told to buy gloves of any color but red. However, when she saw red gloves in the store, she couldn’t resist buying them. As she returned home, it was on fire.  …

  26.10.2020

• 5 Animated Movies to Get You in the Halloween Spirit

  …Halloween list without a sprinkle of Tim Burton movies. And while The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Corpse Bride are all-time classics, let’s talk about Frankenweenie – a story that blends the macabre and the heartfelt in a perfect, if odd, union.  The story follows the black-and-white exploits of young Victor Frankenstein, a sh…

  23.10.2020

• Winter Schools to Join This Year

  …opment goals, as well as global challenges and ways to overcome them as an entrepreneur. You will also learn how to work with the Business Model Canvas, rapid prototyping, and storytelling. More info is available here. Tallinn Winter School (Tallinn University, Estonia) Gamification workshop When: January 11-15, 2021 Application deadline: December …

  22.10.2020

• ITMO Holds Open Online Presentations of Practice-Oriented R&D projects

  …rship, the online format was not a problem but a way to combat stage fright. The topic of her presentation was “Developing a mobile app to gamify the process of studying the history and culture of St. Petersburg”. “Everything went smoothly: at a good pace and with a minimal amount of technical difficulties. As a presenter, I’d say it’s easier to do it online – i…

  21.10.2020

• ITMO University’s Digital Humanities Center: A Place For Learning, Research, and Work

  …he project evolved. So, now, a team of five people and I are working on a mobile application that adds some game mechanics to the process of exploring the city’s culture and history. The project is funded by a grant from ITMO University and the app will be released next June. Yulia Bobrova, junior research associate at the DH Center, Pushkin Leningrad State Univer…

  20.10.2020

• Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg on the Universe’s Expansion and Key Challenges of Modern Physics

  …times the highest energy we can harness now,” said Prof. Steven Weinberg in one of his lectures. During his talk at the NAUKA 0+ festival, he shared his thoughts on the history of microcosm and macrocosm studies, their current state and prospects, as well as their similarities. Scientists are trying to come up with new generalizing theories. That is why it seems…

  19.10.2020

• ITMO Student Daniil Kazantsev on His Sign Language Translation Technology

  …nt covered in the news: social workers took the children away from their hearing-impaired mother because they thought that she wouldn't be able to take good care of them. This story really got to me, and I decided that I have to do something to ensure that such situations would not repeat in the future. People use various means of communication (verbal and nonverb…

  16.10.2020