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Recognizing Personality by Face and Controlling a Loader in VR: ITMO’s Pre-Accelerator + Highpark Participants at the Innovation Forum
…ts on your desktop as well. Each bookmark receives a number of tags that are typically interlinked. Thus, a cruise offer page might be tagged with “sea”, “vacation”, “discount”. If a user wants to find the page, they simply have to type in the tags into the search engine, which helps to navigate the numerous bookmarked pages. The team is planning to make the …
15.11.2019
The Kunstkamera: St. Petersburg’s “Chamber of Curiosities”
… House of science Besides being a museum, the Kunstkamera has also been known as one of the nation’s most important scientific centers. Its staff made several world-class discoveries. For instance, Yuri Knorozov made a breakthrough in linguistics when he deciphered the Maya script. His research on the history and language of the Maya peoples brought him not on…
14.11.2019
ITMO Student Wins in Special Nomination of Huawei Honor Cup
What Russian Startups Bring to Japan
…t them or leave them incomplete; there are always issues with implementation. What I like about Japan is the attention to detail and minutiae. Not once did I find that if you discover something fundamental, then the best implementation of it will be done in Japan,” he adds. According to Hisato Matsuo, the CEO of Team AIBOD, Japanese companies will also likel…
14.11.2019
Big and Small: Changes that Shape Life in St. Petersburg
…r in buildings and windows you didn't even know were possible. There's a food hall in one of the malls near Pionerskaya metro that didn't have very tasty food, and recently I discovered it's been completely redone and there are cuisines from around the world. It's a city that never sleeps and people are constantly investing in new things, forming new ideas, so yo…
12.11.2019
Chemistry Without Borders: 30 Russian and British Researchers Discuss Collaboration in Liverpool
…observe similar patterns in nature. Thus, the purpose of our work is to use a simple chemical system to explain how these complex processes occur in nature. Recently, we have discovered a very interesting effect during our experiments that we now have to explain mathematically to figure out the connections that underlie it. The workshop was very productive, as we hea…
06.11.2019
Living History: Interactive Digital Projects to Help You Learn About Russia
…zhito (“Lived Through”) project, an online web archive of digitized personal diaries with over 270,000 entries. You can search for dates, names, tags and keywords in order to discover unedited perspectives on life in Russia and the Soviet Union. “Diaries are not just important because of the facts they contain – their very language is a sphere of research,” say…
05.11.2019
ITMO Co-Organizes International Conference on Lighting Design
…e of a modern megapolis and the way of life natural to its inhabitants. Meanwhile, in many regions of Russia, the problem of street lighting is still a major source of discomfort, posit the experts. Not only do some regional cities not have a modern, intelligent lighting system – they can’t even boast to have full lighting coverage of their streets. “In 2…
05.11.2019
Three Video Games for a Ghostly Weekend
… of any sort. With monsters pacing the cargo ship that you find yourself on, you have to sneak around finding all the necessary items for one of the several escape routes you discover. Depending on your luck and hiding skills, game sessions may last from mere minutes to even a couple of hours, as you have to start anew after every disastrous meeting with the monster.…
01.11.2019
John Ioannidis’s ITMO Lecture: What’s Wrong With Medical Research and How We Can Make It Right
…ublish a new article using old data without conducting a new experiment,” says Ioannidis. All of this leads us to confusion of the general public. People read about new discoveries in papers and on the internet, but these reports constantly contradict each other. It happens because in our times of lacking transparency in science, researchers or other interested…
28.10.2019