ITMO in Media
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The Hindu (Индия)
Can you keep a secret?
The perpetual desire to flaunt our lives on social media has ensured no place remains hidden or inaccessible from the prying cameras.
In recent news, the perpetual need to hunt for authentic experiences has led the scientists at ITMO University in St. Petersburg to develop a tool to allow users to experience the city of St. Petersburg a little closely.
According to the university’s website, “The scientists created a computer algorithm that allows users to find the most popular museums, cafes, streets and parks based on photographs taken by locals.” In effect, the researchers mined Instagram pictures based on geo-tagging to help tourists see cities from a local's perspective. On Instagram, they also “found a way to distinguish between Instagram users living in St. Petersburg and visiting tourists based on how they use social media.”
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ANALYTIK NEWS (Германия)
Miniaturisierte optische Sensoren als Fruhwarnsystem fur gefahrliche Gase
Wissenschaftler der Technischen Universitat Hamburg (TUHH), der ITMO Universitat Sankt Petersburg und des Helmholtz-Zentrums Geesthacht entwickelten in Kooperation mit der Universitat York ein neues Konzept, um die Wegstrecken optischer Signale, die auf einem Silizium-Chip gefuhrt werden, drastisch zu vergro?ern. Sogenannte 2D-integrierende Zellen ermoglichen es, Strecken von mehreren Zentimetern auf einer Flache von wenigen Quadratmillimetern zu realisieren.
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The Guardian
Want a more 'authentic' tourist experience? There's an app for that!
For many people the best kind of holiday is one based on local knowledge, but how do you know where the locals go – especially when they may prefer not to tell you? By mining their publicly available Instagram data.
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Hydro International
Teledyne Optech Contributing to The Ocean Cleanup
Teledyne Optech’s Chief Scientist Dr Viktor Feygels will be presenting at Oceans 17 MTS/IEEE in Anchorage, Alaska from 18-21 September 2017 the results from Optech CZMIL Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar’s survey of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a large concentration of plastic debris covering hundreds of thousands of square kilometres in the north Pacific. Dr. Feygel’s presentation, co-written with members of Teledyne Optech’s Marine group and in collaboration with Julia Reisser of The Ocean Cleanup Foundation and Yuri Kopilevich of ITMO University, is titled “Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar (CZMIL) Participation in The Ocean Cleanup's Aerial Expedition Project”.
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Laser Focus World
Femtosecond laser pulses produce terahertz radiation from water
While terahertz radiation has been generated from solids, gases, and plasmas (the "fourth state" of matter) before, no one had created terahertz light from a liquid -- until now. A group from the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester (U of R; Rochester, NY), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China), the Center for Terahertz Waves and School of Precision Instrument and Opto-electronics Engineering at Tianjin University (Tianjin, China), Capital Normal University (Beijing, China), and ITMO University (Saint Petersburg, Russia) has used the effects of femtosecond pulses on water to achieve this feat.
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Irish Tech News
Barcelona to host the most global coding boot camp, Sept 27 – Oct 5, 2017
Barcelona will host the most global coding boot camp later this month, with a total of 150 students from 50 teams from around the world locking themselves in front of computers for more than a week. The capital of Catalonia will welcome the most talented young programmers of the world, with the ACM-ICPC World Champions from ITMO University, as well as the top universities from United States, Canada, Singapore, China, Japan, Brazil, Mexico and Europe among the participants. There are no Irish teams participating though, geographically the closest team attending is from University College London.
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elEconomista.es
Hello, Barcelona!, el bootcamp mas global de Europa, volvera a reunir a Barcelona a los mejores programadores del mundo
En la pasada edicion, tambien se prepararon a 50 equipos para las finales mundiales que tuvieron lugar el pasado mayo. Una experiencia tan positiva que ha hecho posible realizar un segundo bootcamp todavia mas grande, el cual cuenta con la participacion de Sberbank, el mayor banco de Rusia y Europa del este, y tambien con Codeforces, la mayor comunidad online de programadores. Ademas, Harbour.Space colabora con las mas celebres universidades de la informatica: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, ITMO University y Saint-Petersburg State University.
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Motherboard
Glowing Nanoparticle Ink Could Lead to Easy DIY Holograms
We live in a golden age of printing in which it's possible to churn out tools, weapons, and even experimental artificial organs. Now, scientists at ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, Russia are engineering yet another specialized field of futuristic printing — luminescent holograms that can be produced by a normal inkjet model printer. Co-author of the study Alexander Vinogradov gives some insights on their invention.
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Russia Beyond the Headlines
A new algorithm helps tourists find those secret places that locals love
Today, traveling as a tourist means that your path rarely crosses with the local people. You might look for recommendations on TripAdviser, and tour guides can help, but the truth is that they don't give you even half the picture. Locals know the best and most affordable places to hang out, while you probably have to pay double in more expensive places that aren't even that good. Programmers from ITMO University in St. Petersburg, however, have taken pity on tourists and offer a solution. They created a computer algorithm that allows travelers to find museums, cafes, streets and other interesting spots based on Instagram posts by local inhabitants. Ksenia Mukhina, the main author of the paper, explains how it works.
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EurekAlert!
Algorithm identified Trump as 'not-married'
Scientists from Russia and Singapore created an algorithm that predicts user marital status with 86% precision using data from three social networks instead of one. While testing, the program identified Donald Trump, the 45th US President who is actually married, as single. According to the developers, this inconsistency came up because of Trump's abnormal activity in the media: the businessman and his assistants use Twitter like a bachelor. The study was reported at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in San Francisco.