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Sometimes It’s Important Just to Talk: How Volunteers of #WeAreTogether Initiative Help the Elderly During Self-Isolation
…y on the Dobro ONF website. The headquarters provides us with all the queries from the website, and we pick out those that are applicable to our district and then divide them between the volunteers. By and large, I’ve only been coordinating others, but there have been a couple of times when I drove out to respond to requests with my husband. I particularly rememb…
03.06.2020
AR Technologies at Home: FASTEP Startup Team on Easy-to-Understand Manuals for Household Appliances
…The app FASTEP works in the following way. First, you point your phone at a device. Neural networks then recognize the latter’s class and model and check their database for relevant manuals. If these are present, you are offered several applicable manuals. You choose the one you’re interested in, and then point your phone’s camera once again to see the step-by-step g…
03.06.2020
ITMO Researchers Develop Smart Energy System To Help Ease Electrical Grid Load
…lant is fixed with a set of intelligent power conversion units with storage units, sensors, and smart controllers that make it possible to distribute the load on the electric network with regard to the time of the day. If you add a portable wind generator or a small solar battery unit to the system, you can considerably decrease the load, as this will allow you to de…
02.06.2020
Lumen in the Land of Nanite: What the Unreal Engine 5 Demo Tells Us About the Future of Video Game Graphics
…ing a rare exception) operate within the paradigm of vertices, edges and polygons which serve as the most primitive level of any geometrical model. Striking the right balance between visual fidelity of game assets and the number of polygons has always been a crucial and nontrivial task for any developer. And while bare polygons are not the only thing affecting render…
02.06.2020
For the Benefit of the Environment: ITMO Specialists Develop Biodegradable Food Packaging and Nutritious Plant-Based Food
…re and more products that need to be packaged are being made, which creates enormous quantities of trash. In Russia, the amount of solid household waste is growing each year. Between 1998 and 2013, this number has doubled in size – from 30 to 60 million per year – and only continues to increase. According to the data by the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural …
01.06.2020
ITMO Master’s Student Creates Software to Settle Controversial Moments in Hockey
…and one working space, a player for all of those signals. A specialty of the video goal system is that all signals need to play simultaneously so that the operator can switch between them. For instance, we need to figure out how to transmit signals in a cluster system without any lags or quality loss.” Dmitry also holds that the system could be adapted to ot…
01.06.2020
“Life in Science” Online Soft Skills Course Helps You Succeed in Science
…ion, Natalia Hohlova and Yulia Manaeva, experts from Eurosib and Knauf Industries, teach students how to present themselves at job interviews, during business correspondence, networking, and public speeches. Alexey Slobozhanyuk teaches how to find scholarships, grants, and contests. As of now, Alexey, being 29 years old, has won nine Russian and international gran…
01.06.2020
Science Communication, Digital Humanities, and Art & Science: Master’s Programs at ITMO’s Institute of International Development and Partnership.
…ming environment for students from all over the world. As Daria Kozlova, the university’s First Vice Rector, notes, the Institute establishes communication and integration between the different fields of study that exist at ITMO University and within its ecosystem. “The primary goal of the Institute of International Development and Partnership is to develop t…
29.05.2020
Sustainable Development Expert on Green Thinking and Eco-Friendly Construction
…ge, eco buildings can quickly and effectively adapt to new requirements. They are more flexible and innovative by nature. Secondly, gaining traction is global competition between cities. It stems from the fact that people have always strived to improve their living conditions, to move to places where they will feel safer and more comfortable. In our times, there …
29.05.2020
ITMO University Students on Mapping Wildfires for Greenpeace
…p offers, as well as information about other eco-events and opportunities. I decided to participate in this project when I found out that they are planning to create a neural network in order to predict wildfires and automatically measure their area with the help of satellite imagery. However, first things first it should be done by people. As it turned out, it’s …
28.05.2020