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• TECHNOHISTORY Conference: Biohacking, Neuroart, and Women of Bauhaus

  …t copyright? For instance, there is a technology called neural style transfer which can copy the style of great artists, for example, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, etc. Is it a copyright violation? Or can we use it? Naturally, any scientific breakthrough entails changes in both the legal and ethical code. So, it goes without saying that with technolo…

  01.04.2021

• ITMO Researchers Teach Neural Network to Tell Jokes

  …outside the rules of logic – but such rules are key for an algorithm to function. On the other hand, jokes also have their laws and structure, which can be grasped by a neural network. In order to prove this hypothesis, ITMO experts created a website where GPT-3, the most advanced text-generating algorithm in the world, tells all sorts of jokes based on the classi…

  01.04.2021

• Social Media Knows Everything: Threats and Risks

  …? How do algorithms draw conclusions about us? Do social media really listen in on our conversations in order to target us with ads? How safe is GPS for us? Are public networks safe? Should I use it? What are other negative aspects? And what about positive aspects? Do IT platforms protect user data? Is it possible to leave zero digital footprints? …

  31.03.2021

• The Future of Hard Drives: Hot Bits and Laser Recordings

  …ds of thousands of search queries per second. The rapidly developing cloud storage technologies are making us consider leaving any physical storage devices in the past with magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs) gradually losing their share of the market. In recent years, they have been often substituted with solid state drives (SSDs). This, however, does not mean that HDD…

  31.03.2021

• How To Teach a Computer To Interpret Text

  …ted by copyright. Machines are almost perfect when it comes to logical tasks, mathematical analysis, data mining, and compilation of new content on its basis. “Big neural networks are taught on enormously large amounts of texts, images, or melodies, depending on the task so that connections inside this neural network would detect c…

  30.03.2021

• ITMO's 121st Anniversary: Quizzes, Tours, and Lots of Gifts

  … Zanin,  winner of the European Rowing Championships and a participant of the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games. Now he is a successful entrepreneur engaged in the development of magnetic levitation railways who also actively supports ITMO students. We also invited Victor Yanovsky, the vice president of the student rowing league and held an open dialogue on the prospects o…

  29.03.2021

• ITMO University Hosts the First IChem Prize Contest for School Students

  …lace Our goal is to study and define the functions of a specific protein, which plays an unknown role in our body yet has something to do with Williams syndrome. This genetic disorder is characterized by a deletion of genes that encode this protein as well. If we figured out its functions, we could compile treatment for people with this condition. At my sch…

  25.03.2021

• ITMO and Almazov National Medical Research Centre Researchers Study The Effect of Gaming On the Human Brain

  …ITMO and Almazov National Medical Research Centre collaborate on projects connected to the technological aspects of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) – and it is during this collaboration that the idea for the current project came to be.  “We have been working on send-receive MRI coils and methods to improve the field’s heterogeneity, and we already have pilot pr…

  25.03.2021

• ITMO Student Creates Platform for Finding Team Members for Various Projects

  …a. Here, special attention is paid to a detailed profile – some sort of a business card that can also be used on other outlets.  The creators see their platform as a social network rather than an exchange for projects and services. Launched only at the beginning of this year, it already has around a hundred registered users. At first, the platform used ITMO Accele…

  24.03.2021

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 27-28, 2021

  …2 - 9 pm Former Stepan Razin Brewery  free This is the place to buy one-of-a-kind pieces and accessories – while being a responsible consumer who takes care of the planet by dressing second-hand. Feel like a true local by discovering a space not usually known by many, experience a welcoming vintage atmosphere, and get inspired by the patchwork of outfits you…

  24.03.2021