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Breakthrough Technologies Will Soon Leave Laboratories: School Students Share Their Vision Of Future
…the near future. As for genetic engineering, I guess there are lots of challenges we are to face, primarily in what has to do with developing the corresponding legislation and solving many ethical issues. It is most important for the scientists to learn to read brain signals and connect bionic prostheses directly to the human body. I believe that is possible, and we…
01.09.2017
ITMO.GO: New Students Join the ITMO Family
…and they’d always told us: “It’s cool here, you should apply”. We got into programming in school; we go to an IT-focused lyceum and were always interested in writing software, solving tasks and creating our own things. We plan to apply to Master’s programs, too – we don’t yet know which ones, but we’ll find that out while we study here. Maria Talalenko, enrolled a…
31.08.2017
Algorithm Summer School: New ITMO-STC Initiative
…Nine students from different universities who successfully solved the test on neural networks participated in the first Algorithm summer school; they came to St. Petersburg from different cities to master the fundamentals of machine learning under the guidance of the field's experienced practitioners. "The test was about creating a system for road sign recogniti…
31.08.2017
Divide and Conquer: How S&R Built a Successful Chemical Startup in Russia
… the manufacturer, which takes a great deal of time and resources, especially when dealing with imported equipment. S&R Systems have launched the LabParts service that aims to solve this problem. Using LabParts, any scientist can order the required components by simply uploading a picture of the needed part and its technical data into the system. The finished part…
30.08.2017
FactoryFinder: ITMO Graduates Develop Service To Optimize Procurement
…, which eliminates the human element and thus prevents related mistakes. Alexei Solomatin and Anastasia Kozhikina Apart from saving the customers' time, the service also solves another problem. It often happens that those purchase coordinators who have been working for a long time and made many contacts prefer to enter deals with the same suppliers again and ag…
30.08.2017
Yandex Expert Shares Rules for Co-Existence of Humans and AI
…secure” fields of work are the ones related to emotional intelligence, where human participation is important (psychologists, nannies, etc.), as negative emotions take more to solve than a gentle pat. Rules for “survival”: Be ready to learn and re-learn for the entirety of your life: the lifespan of many occupations will become shorter than the human lifespa…
29.08.2017
ITMO’s Higher School of Lighting Design Enters PLDC's Top-5 Best Universities
…tersburg “Established schools focus more on the classical approaches to lighting design that is about the synergy of architecture and design, while the new schools aim to solve the more comprehensive questions that have to do with the progress of technologies, as well as interaction between information and people. They work in such relevant and promising fields …
28.08.2017
Bloomberg Experts: Semantic Tech to Improve Financial Operations
Aleksandra Kalashnikova: We Need to Reconsider PhD Students’ Status
… we use funds from grants - a considerable part of them goes to PhD students' wages. I believe that such a system should be formalized and become a common rule. How do they solve the problem with PhD students in the Netherlands? They do as follows: most of the PhD positions are bound to particular grants. Such positions are stated in advance by the project head…
23.08.2017
TransformCity: The Amsterdam Approach to Urban Planning
…and then a problem with office buildings emerged. In 2011, about 200 square meters of office space was left empty. The city administration had neither resources, nor ideas for solving these problems. "At that time, I lost my job as an architect, so I decided to contribute by solving this problem. I understood that it caused many ar…
22.08.2017