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ITMO Scientist Vladislav Gromov: We Want to Make Robots Help People, Not Replace Them
…tarted collaborating with a British company TBA Robotics. And it is this project that you presented in Sochi? Yes, at the ‘Big Challenges for Society, State and Science’ summit that was held on October 14-18 in the Sirius educational center. For us scientists, it mostly involved presenting our reports, while the representatives from the Presidential Grants Foun…
24.10.2018
Winners of SPb School CTF-2018: How to Become a Successful Hacker When You're 11
…you have to come up with a strategy of how you’re going to develop this product, as well as form a team of specialists who will be involved in its implementation. I attended a summer school in technological entrepreneurship, where I was awarded a diploma, and this motivated me even further to pursue this field. My global aim is to create a company in the field of …
23.10.2018
Laeneco Founder Ilya Skorobogatov: How to Take the Japanese Market by Storm
…What were your expectations for the trip? I was the only Laeneco team member at the summit. Leaving for Fukuoka, I was looking forward to meeting representatives from the city government and the business community. I also counted on establishing contacts with the international accelerators participating in the event, but these were no specific plans. I couldn’t ev…
18.10.2018
All St. Petersburg's a Stage: Must-Visit Unusual Theaters
…a dramatic play without understanding a word), go watch recordings of the best dramatic performances out there at the Aurora cinema. The Tragedy of King Lear, Frankenstein, Midsummer Night's Dream and other landmark thespian creations featuring such great actors as Jonny Lee Miller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKellen, and many others, are shown here in their original…
16.10.2018
PhD Vitaly Aksenov: Coding For Someone Other Than Myself Is Boring
…h grade, my mother decided that programming is the future and I have to brush up on computer science. As I wasn’t really good at it then, I understood that I have to go to the Summer School of IT. In order to pass the entrance examinations, I had to study individually with my computer science teacher, and I only made it to the D group. Still, it was the year when the…
16.10.2018
Faculty of Physics and Engineering Staff to Republish Legendary Soviet Physicist’s Works
…aws of refraction and reflection. Adapted by the legendary author himself, the new reprint features sweeping changes of the chapters on reverse-traveling waves with a short summary on the history of their research, as well as some new additions in the form of media with spiral inclusions. ITMO University’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering staff took on the role …
15.10.2018
International Olympiad in Informatics 2018 Winners: Even If You’re Tired, Don’t Lose Sight of Your Goals
…ccomplishments stem from my studies at ITMO University’s Olympiad programming club, which I started attending when I was in seventh grade. Prior to that, I participated in the Summer School of IT, and that’s when my coding adventures started: I really enjoyed my time there and decided to keep on exploring that field. I used to focus my efforts on maths as well, bu…
15.10.2018
Short-Term Academic Mobility Programs: How to Get University’s Financial Support
…ation in other mobility programs. ITMO.NEWS interviewed several students who won the partial funding competition for participating in short-term events and programs in late summer/early fall of 2018. Alena Rotaru, 2nd year Master’s student, Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems, participant of the Experimental Interaction Design Summer Palace of Peter the Great which his entourage believed to be far too small and modest for a monarch, and a few other buildings and churches, the majority of the Petrine Baroque buildings…
09.10.2018
Change of Seasons: Autumn is Love
… family and friends over a nice steaming cup of tea, and long walks in the park. Rain or shine (the ‘shine’ part is mostly hypothetical, let’s be honest), I always take to the Summer Garden to wend my way through the delightfully crunchy (or disgustingly soggy, keepin’ it real) leaves listening to podcasts. I devour lots of podcasts on a daily basis (especially in…
02.10.2018