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• Why Smart Cities Need Standardization: Experts Discuss

  … future," comments Nina Yanikina. Professor Mark Fox from the University of Toronto spoke about the data standards with regard to city indicators. Many cities with rich history have their certain heritage in what has to do with such services as education, transport, water supply, drainage, healthcare and the like, having developed each service in a particular wa…

  17.10.2017

• Spaceports: Where They Are and How to Get There

  …currently launches two types of rockets: the privately-owned Falcon and NASA’s Space Launch System. It is also where the Vehicle Assembly Building – the world’s largest single-story building and one of the biggest by volume – is located. The Vandenberg Air Force Base is in California and serves as the launch site for military and commercial satellites, as well as the…

  12.10.2017

• ITMO Scientists Prove Skyrmion Laser Manipulation

  … application - all of these can lead to the creation of ultra-compact storage devices based on them. Why the skyrmion appeals to scientists We have to mention that the history of skyrmions started back in 1962. The starting point was the work of British researcher Tony Skyrme, who showed that a special class of nonlinear models in quantum field theory allows a …

  12.10.2017

• ITMO Graduate from India on Benefits of Double Degree

  …l of international companies have representatives here. Surprisingly enough, I enjoy the climate, too. When I tell people about St. Petersburg, I use the word “magical”. The history, the museums, the culture – this is what makes me come back to Russia again and again. Have you figured out what a graduate should do not to lose their grasp on what they’ve learned af…

  11.10.2017

• Digital Humanities: Digitizing History

  …members. European Association for Digital Humanities As we already noted, the community consists of different research teams. One of its key participants is the Moscow History and Computer Association of the Moscow State University. The group publishes the Historical Computer Science magazine that is included in the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Tit…

  04.10.2017

• Urban Evolution: Artists, Journalists and CEOs Discuss Future of St. Petersburg

  …The plenary discussion “The City of the Living: Culture as a History of the Future” marked the end of the business program of the III International Spatial Development Forum that took place in St. Petersburg from 27 to 29 September. Each year, the event brings together politicians, entrepreneurs and scientists involved in the various fields of planning, development a…

  02.10.2017

• Blogger Boris Tsatsulin on Science Writing, Kamchatka and Memes

  …criticism from vegans. The subject itself is quite new, and I can't say anyone has 100% reliable data that allows us to say something for sure. Yet, there's the evolutionary history of hominids' diet, the food culture of consuming products of animal origin. Domestication of animals and dairy product consumption had its effect on human genetics; in certain regions, th…

  02.10.2017

• "HOW should I trust?" - Thomas Leitch on Fake News

  … As of now, fake news has become an epidemy, and I'm afraid it will only get worse. Yet, we should remember that the problem itself is nothing new: fake news has a very long history that can be traced back to as early as 1802. There was an upsurge of this phenomena in 1939, just before World War II, and 30 years before that. So, if people have already faced this prob…

  29.09.2017

• ITMO won Silver "Dolphin" at the Cannes Corporate Media and TV awards

  … social action videos included in the contest. Separate categories were devoted to films that discussed problems related to environmental issues and concerns, medical films, history and civilization, science and technology and others. All the winners and their films can be seen here. "This win is particularly exciting and important for us, as in this competition…

  29.09.2017

• Google Celebrates 19th Birthday

  …ievements. Stats for 2017 show that the engine processes approximately 41.34 billion search requests every day and indexes more than 25 billion webpages each month (over its history, it has indexed a total of more than 60 trillion webpages and documents). A variety of the company’s online products – from Google Maps to Google Translate – are extremely popular, too, a…

  27.09.2017