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ITMO Student Devises Smart Backpack for On-the-Go Recharging
…team had five girls and two boys. I held lectures and workshops and continued working on the project. It was then that I understood that a backpack-based device would be much more functional than a wearable one. Why a backpack? We ran a survey at Sirius (among 500-600 participants) and it turned out that the majority of young people between 15 and 20 regularly ca…
23.08.2021
ITMO Student Develops a Messenger Aggregator
…iption that allows users to make a small payment monthly, the second one is about paying for extra features. We will test different models to detect which is more efficient. Basic functions will be free of charge but others, such as downloading all media from messengers, might require payment. But apps save all media in cache – videos, pictures… How do you fil…
20.08.2021
ITMO's New Master's Program: Quantum Technologies in the Industry
… communications and quantum sensors. The two latter specializations are what ITMO’s new Master’s program will focus on. Quantum communications is a technology for information protection that uses quantum particles for key exchange. It can be used for transferring information over great distances, as well as providing maximum protectio
20.08.2021
New Nature Exhibition Experience: Excavating the New, Burying the Old
… those doors led to. Standing in the line, we had enough time to learn that in the room was a special AI setup that would use our images from social media to make a personalized prediction of our futures. We were to choose only the way it would go, almost like Neo stepping into the Matrix. Though our choices were only limited to a highly positive or a downright negat…
20.08.2021
Founder of ID R&D Konstantin Simonchik on His Career Path and Prospects
…e started with project activities. Basically, there are two approaches to startups: Western European and Eastern European. While the first puts investments first, the second implies actions and only then investments. We opted for the latter. How long did it take to reach self-sufficiency and start making a profit? That’s a great question. During the first year…
19.08.2021
ITMO Researchers Find a Way to Control Localized Light
… a stone is thrown into smooth water. ITMO scientists proposed a unique two-dimensional structure to concentrate the energy of electromagnetic surface waves along the desired direction and thus achieve greater control of waves on surfaces. Scholars have studied surface waves for a long time. Considered a promising method of transferring localized light, this p…
19.08.2021
History Reconstruction and Vitamin D Receptors: ITMO Lecturers on Their Reports at MCCMB 2021
…cidental co-regulation within the gene expression of a particular biological experiment. Thanks to its core algorithms, the method can be used to simultaneously test huge public collections of expression matrices. Many people were fond of our methods and approach and expressed their desire to apply our ideas into practice. As we presented our method for the fir…
18.08.2021
ITMO Student Evgenia Ikonnikova on Internship in France
…ed best. I said that I was more interested in what implies more lab work and not just computations. This is how I got to work on the project “Study of membranes and inks for the production of electrodes for fuel cells”. – Was passing the selection process difficult? Did you have to pass anything more than just the interview? What was…
17.08.2021
Microrevolution: On Home-Made Fermentation in the Modern World
…zation of biotech knowledge, experience, and cultural exchange, as well as joint creation and collaboration. We immerse ourselves into the microworld in order to understand how it functions, learn how to value biodiversity at different levels, and discover the natural power of communities. It’s a micro-socialism of sorts. The Spanish language stayed with me af…
17.08.2021
ITMO Associate Professor Andrey Filchenkov on Why Robots Can’t Replace Doctors
…cine. Simply put, it would take a lot of effort to cover all the fields with algorithms. What else? The second problem is connected with cross- and interdisciplinary interaction. If we want to introduce AI in medicine, healthcare professionals and computer scientists must communicate with each other, and that’s always a problem. Computer specialists are no…
16.08.2021