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• Gamified Education and Blockchain for IPs: Winners of Potanin Foundation’s Grant Competition

  …Educational course “Use of Blockchain for IP Management in the Knowledge Economy” (winner in the “New Educational Course” category) One of this year’s grant winners is Ibrahim Alnafrah, an engineer and PhD student from the Faculty of Technology and Innovation Management. The course he has developed will help non-specialists and students learn about blockchain tech…

  02.04.2019

• ITMO Master’s Student on ECNP Workshop in Nice

  …e events are, first and foremost, brain and mental disorders. I would really like to participate in such a school as a PhD student; I see it as an opportunity to share my knowledge and experiences with others as well as broaden my horizons and bring new ideas to Russia. Every year, four topics are chosen for this workshop. This year’s topics included modern discov…

  01.04.2019

• Council for the Development of Digital Economy at ITMO University: Online Education and Russian Universities in Global Top-50

  …ases, online courses, and regular web conferences. It’s also important to maintain the relevance of federal educational standards, especially those that concern IT and cutting-edge tech education. An online education “storefront” for all and countering automation-related job loss During the session, the participants had pointed out the need to erase the lin…

  01.04.2019

• ScienceMedia Forum Participants on Their Work and Modern Journalism

  …hapters on the final website. At the hackathon, we were given a task to create a feature about Diakont, which is an enterprise specializing in ensuring security of knowledge-based production plants. One thing they do, for example, is developing robots that find their way into the pipes supplying gas or water to houses, and inspect them. These robots can get in…

  28.03.2019

• Robotic Trolleys, Smart Drones and Full Automation: How Things Work at Unilever Factory in St. Petersburg

  …nside.” The factory ITMO University students got to visit focuses on personal hygiene products and household cleaning goods. In their production process, they use cutting-edge equipment, including a smart drone able to carry heavy loads. According to the company’s staff, one of their main goals at the moment is to achieve maximum automation of working processes …

  27.03.2019

• Scientist Evgeny Belyaev on the Challenges of Video Encoding, Limits of Compression, and Future of Streaming

  … At some point, we will either have to invent something completely new to revolutionize the field or we will have to focus on specific applications, where some additional knowledge about a video source is available. For example, I'm working on a task of inspecting various infrastructures with aerial drones. A camera is mounted onto a drone and the drone creates a map…

  26.03.2019

• Professor Fabio Bonsignorio on the Need of Reproducibility of Robotic Research and the Future of the Economy

  …s research at all. I say it’s absolutely essential if robots are to be widely introduced or if we just want to know what is and what is not possible by current scientific knowledge and already developed technologies. Moreover, engineers will  have to communicate with investors, and in order to decide whether to invest money in particular algorithms or systems, the la…

  25.03.2019

• Russian Physicist Alexey Melnikov Awarded the Prestigious Cozzarelli Prize

  …ome experts are capable of doing that, their intuition is not fault-proof. That’s why it would be great to have an automated system, an algorithm, that would unite expert knowledge in one. And we did in fact manage to make such an algorithm, to harness machine learning in a way to understand whether there would be a quantum speedup or not.” The researcher ad…

  25.03.2019

• ITMO University and Siemens Launch Joint Research Lab

  … and the creation of artificial cognitive systems. “Traditionally, ITMO University has always focused on the application of IT in the generation of interdisciplinary knowledge and its translation into the different areas of industry, business, and the social sector. Together with Siemens, we plan to enter a new stage in the creation of industrial decision suppor…

  22.03.2019

• University of Pretoria Scientists on Applications of Metabolic Analysis

  …ore preferable from a scientific standpoint. Thanks to evolution, there are whole families of every plant. The differences between their components are often minimal, but knowledge of them can help create drugs with maximum efficiency. According to Jacobus Johannes Marion Meyer, metabolic analysis helps test the quality of drugs and facilitate the growth of th…

  22.03.2019