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How To Teach a Computer To Interpret Text
…“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 certain patterns,” explains Ilya Surov, senior research associate at ITMO University’s National Center for Cognitive Research. “By using them, the machine can compile new texts, images, or, for ex…
30.03.2021
ITMO’s Robot Artist Learns To Earn Money Using NFT
…ctories for a controller that holds the brush. It takes an average of 15 minutes to create one drawing. “Since 2017, we have been working on a system that can perform certain activities while maintaining a low number of errors, and we succeeded in significantly improving the algorithm over the past year. Now, Gaka-Chu makes fewer …
30.03.2021
Architectural Utopia: 5 Never-Implemented Soviet Projects
…revolution” (as said by the Soviet critic Viktor Shklovsky), the tower would have reached 400 meters in height, dwarfing the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Its main framework would contain four tiers of glass-walled chambers rotating at different rates. Different parts of the Tower were to rotate around their own axis over the period of a month or a year and be home to t…
29.03.2021
ITMO University Hosts the First IChem Prize Contest for School Students
… rejects them as something foreign. To solve this problem, we’re working on a model system based on bone components: we study the properties of these systems and methods for obtaining them. We also introduce living cells into systems and observe how they begin to use external substances, destroying and taking their place. Thus, we can stimulate the differentiation an…
25.03.2021
ITMO and Almazov National Medical Research Centre Researchers Study The Effect of Gaming On the Human Brain
…ut that sometimes our colleagues run studies where they don’t require any particular technological innovations, but look for a deeper understanding of the principles behind certain MRI methods and technologies. Or, sometimes, they need help finding people with certain lifestyle preferences, as was the case with this study – and we offer…
25.03.2021
Student Spotlight: Todd Johnsen, USA
… outside, I found St. Petersburg to possess a low-trust environment culture; Russia was not that hospitable and welcoming of a country at the beginning, but is fairly well-maintained. On a personal level, I would prefer a more provincial Russian city, but university resources and infrastructure would be more limited there. How is life as an international stude…
25.03.2021
Scientists From ITMO and the US Assemble New Reference Genomes of Two Malaria Mosquito Species
…ls, while others bite humans only. It is important to pinpoint the genomic differences in such feeding behavior so that we can potentially affect the dietary preferences of certain species.” What is a reference genome? A team of researchers from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), George Washington University, and ITMO Uni…
24.03.2021
Get to Know ITMO Technopark’s XLab
…ly formed based on the wishes of students. As for the future, it will be expanded based on the results of a special competition where students will leave their requests for certain equipment. All purchases for the laboratory will be paid from the budget of the Twin Campus projects and other resources, including the university endowment fund. “We’re not fond …
23.03.2021
ITMO PhD Student Designs Sustainable Development Project for the Pskov Region
…m motivated by the desire to create comfortable living conditions for people. In the Pskov region, I saw the opportunity to make my ideas come true. I shared my thoughts on sustainable development of the region with my friends who work in the administration of the Pskov Oblast. They suggested I visit the station. I was surprised by the way its staff has been pres…
18.03.2021
Molecular Building Blocks: Scientists Demonstrate Controlled Melamine Cyanurate Nucleation
…cientists still debate over the formation of this material. They are still not fully aware of what exactly happens to the molecules of cyanuric acid and melamine when under certain conditions they are placed in one container where nucleation begins. The birth of crystals A group of scientists, which included specialists from ITMO…
18.03.2021