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• Movie Fridays: New Releases

  Well the weather outside is frightful – so why don’t you seek solace in a cozy cinema theater, or, blessed be the streaming services, your home instead? Here’s our specially curated selection of the latest, or up-and-coming, movie and TV releases to help you decide what to watch this holiday season. (PS: and here is our last year’s Christmassy films best-of should you feel you wanna get the festive movie party going!)

  06.12.2019

• Movie Chitter-Chatter: The Last Jedi

  May the Fourth be with you! As we gear up to see the final installment of the Skywalker saga (who else’s dead inside thinking about it?) in cinemas this December, some choose to rewatch all of its eight predecessors to tie them over. And what this means is yet again falling in love with the timeless magic of The Empire Strikes Back, cringing over Attack of the Clones, and puzzling over the controversial phenomenon that is The Last Jedi. Tell you what, let’s do the latter thing together, in a new chapter of our The Guardian’s pass notes wannabe series Movie Chitter-Chatter.

  03.05.2019

• University of Twente’s Stefano Stramigioli: Robotics Is About Giving Machines Life

  Stefano Stramigioli first got into robotics after watching Star Wars as a kid. Today, he is the chairman of the Robotics and Mechatronics Group at the University of Twente (the Netherlands). Last year, his research team developed the world’s smallest breast cancer diagnostics robot. The group’s researchers collaborate with major companies like KUKA and Siemens, and develop drones and other robotic systems. Prof. Stramigioli, who is co-heading the ITMO Bio-mechatronics and Energy-Efficient Robotics Lab and recently came to ITMO University to give a series of lectures for students and young researchers, sat down with us to talk about medical robotics, working with ITMO, and finding inspiration.

  17.12.2018

• Movie Fridays: Out With The New, In With The Old

  Ah, remakes. A popular Hollywood directors’ way of milking old classics, they are a rage trigger for many a movie fanatic. If you're torn between watching an original film or its reboot (or a follow-up that looks like a reboot), here’s our two (or four) cents on the matter. Just a little disclaimer, though: all views are author’s own.

  27.07.2018

• ITMO Programmers’ Death Star Project Wins Hackathon Prize

  The Galactic Empire is crippled by the loss of the Death Star and needs to restore its military strength as soon as possible! Could that be done in 32 hours? Easily; just gather enough programmers and mathematicians for a Star Wars-inspired hackathon at the “Boiling Point” co-working space. Students from various universities of St. Petersburg had 32 hours to solve algorithmic problems to ensure the operation of an Imperial factory despite a deficit of resources and funds. ITMO University’s team Traffox, made up of Master’s students from the Computer Technologies Department, proposed one of the best solutions to the problem and was included in the Empire’s list of top developers.

  26.12.2017