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• Zooniverse: Help Study Polar Animals While Staying at Home

  … manager at Zooniverse. “To this end, we enable thousands of volunteers to perform simple pattern recognition tasks on the data. A secondary aim is to break down the barriers between professional research and the general public.” #flippersfirst! For example, you can help a research team who study penguins. The process itself resembles playing a game or do…

  17.04.2020

• Top Five: Podcasts to Self-Isolate With

  …arah Keyworth, a couple of top-notch comedians, give other couples the third degree about their relationships – unearthing the adorable and the embarrassing and everything in-between (with no one getting hurt in the process – as of yet, that is). Apart from being a perfect amalgamation of lovely, funny, and thought-provoking, it also feels like a good chat b

  17.04.2020

• Russian and Dutch Researchers on What’s Holding Back a Revolution in Data Storage

• ITMO Roboticists Developing a Financially Independent Robot Artist

  … different ways to prove the viability of this concept; one such example was the robot artist. Alexei Ovcharov: First and foremost, we wanted the project to use neural networks in training so as to introduce an element of chance and thus “humanize” the process as much as possible. The initial idea was to collect a data pool – popular YouTube videos, tweets,…

  16.04.2020

• Citizen Science: How to Contribute to Research From the Comfort of Your Home

  …b research in just an hour. Yet another project dealing with neurons, EyeWire is part of a research initiative on the eye retina established as part of a collaboration between MIT and the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research. Its goal is to map the connections between retinal neurons and use that data to create a three-dimen…

  15.04.2020

• Science for Industry of the Future: Photonics Master’s Studies at ITMO University

  …of education in the fields of optics. Many employers – both in St. Petersburg and all over Russia – regularly hire university’s graduates. The School of Photonics has a large network of industrial partners, attracting their experts from among the employers to teach original courses, develop research topics, supervise thesis research and provide opportunities for stud…

  15.04.2020

• For the People, By the People: Art in Self-Isolation

  …ar people, too, are finding ways to express their creativity and take it in a new direction. Cue the #изоизоляция (artisolation) challenge on Instagram, a Russian version of #betweenartandquarantine, and a Facebook group under the same name with over 460,000 users. The idea is to recreate famous paintings with whatever’s on hand – from curtains to toilet paper to dri…

  14.04.2020

• ITMO University Scientists Create App to Calculate COVID-19 Infection Risks Based on Human Behavior

  …s to use the research in helping regular citizens, providing decision support for government authorities and industrial management, and improving the safety of public transit networks, retail stores, and other places where people gather en masse. “Our team works on modeling the everyday behavior of people in cities; we understand how people act on public tra…

  13.04.2020

• Researchers Demonstrate a Platform for Future Optical Transistors

  …dor Benimetskiy, another co-author of the paper. “Picture a set of two mirrors facing each other. Under certain conditions, the light of a specific wavelength will be trapped between them. In our case, the waveguide acts like these two mirrors. When light passes through the semiconductor, it creates polaritons, which are simultaneously light particles and excitons. T…

  13.04.2020

• ITMO Hosts MemoryHack: New IT Services for a Project About Veterans

  …, a PhD student at ITMO’s Faculty of Secure Information Technologies and the captain of the team, reckons that their automated filter for picture moderation based on a neural network was what helped the team win.   “Our service automatically downloads open source pictures of WWII veterans and moderates them. We talked to the experts and found out that right now …

  13.04.2020