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How Particles of Silver Darken Under the Influence of Light
Smart Light: ITMO Researchers and Students Create Lighting System That Adapts to How Its Users Feel
…nteers in each group. That’s why the organizers invite everyone to take part in the experiment. Task-specific lighting The collected data will be processed by a neural network. As a result, a system will be created that will monitor the user’s state and adjust the color temperature and level of lighting in a multiuser space depending on people’s behavior and e…
04.03.2021
ITMO Highpark’s Project Receives Positive Assessment
…s will appear. In late December, it was announced that the St. Petersburg State Expertise Center gave a positive assessment to the digital model of ITMO Highpark’s utility network. “The implementation of the ITMO Highpark project is proceeding in full accordance with the approved schedule and the plans that we announced earlier. By the end of the first quarte…
02.03.2021
Mind-Blowing Research of the Month: Brain-Computer Interfaces
…From brains to computers Essentially, a brain-computer interface (BCI) is a communication pathway between the brain and an external device (thanks to Wikipedia for putting this so neatly). More precisely, it means that there is a device, either placed on one's head or implanted inside it, that records brain activity – be that blood oxygenation level (like with MRI…
02.03.2021
Giant Turnips and Runaway Buns: Essential Russian Folktales
…Even though there is one word for “fairytale” and “folktale” in Russian (“сказка” – skazka), the distinction between those two genres exist: these are народные (folk) and литературные (literary) сказки. The first term refers to oral tradition, which, until recent centuries, was primary. The very word сказка is a reminder of that, as it derives from the word “сказа…
01.03.2021
A Guide to the World of Science Fiction
…obably one of its main distinguishing features is that science fiction books are based on scientific facts from physics, chemistry, and other fields. This is a key difference between sci-fi and fantasy. By way of illustration, let’s imagine that you’re reading a book about a character whose palm suddenly flares up. If it is a science fiction book, the author will…
26.02.2021
ITMO Researchers Develop Biocompatible Support Device for Artificial Organs
…liver.” The device itself consists of two drops of the alloy and a piece of polyelectrolyte-infused hydrogel. “We’ve got two drops of liquid metal and then hydrogel between them. As an electrical current passes through, a layer of insoluble gallium compound forms on the border between the metal and the gel. We can produce diff…
26.02.2021
ITMO Professor Alexander Boukhanovsky on How AI Can Help Economy in Crisis
… Petersburg. Can you tell us more about the project? What is its main aim? In 2017, at the start of the project, we aimed at eliminating the technological divide between two financial modeling paradigms. On the one hand, there is traditional research in the field of financial mathematics with a solid formal toolset. Such works are closer to mathematics t…
25.02.2021
SingleStore Founder Nikita Shamgunov on How to Launch a Startup
…starting a business. And finally, the last reason, according to the lecturer, is simply love for the process of creation, be that creating a product, a team, or a customer network. Nikita Shamgunov also discussed bad motivations for building a business. The main one is the desire to become rich and famous. It takes a long time to create a startup, they don’t br…
24.02.2021
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 27-28, 2021
…rking Dostoevsky’s 200th anniversary of birth, you will see photographs made by Valery Degtyarev, one of St. Petersburg’s oldest living photographers. The pictures were taken between 1998 and 2008 and capture various corners of the city, reimagining their meaning for Dostoevsky’s characters. Enjoy the complex printing techniques and travel back in time through the le…
24.02.2021