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• ITMO Graduate on Three Failures and One Victory

  …ach offered him a meal plan, which included five necessary food intakes per day, his enthusiasm decreased. Daniel didn't have much time for cooking and washing up. He tried to solve this problem by looking for food delivery services for sportsmen. Unfortunately he couldn’t afford them. Then he decided to make his own service. He found a business partner in a gym. Th…

  22.12.2016

• ITMO Scientists Gets the Presidential Grant on Studying Quasiparticles

  …ons are really unstable. They quickly degrade at room temperatures due to the nature of materials they emerge in. Yet, there is a type of material that can help the scientists solve it — metal-organic crystals. In such materials, excitons can exist under normal conditions. But choosing the appropriate crystals is hard, as there are many types of them, and each may ha…

  20.12.2016

• "Death and Life of Catalysts": Evgeny Pidko on Getting the ERC Grant and his Research Plans

  …may as well be called the XXI century chemistry. The program's graduates will be sought-after in all fields of industry, and I believe that they'll be able to contribute to solving many of today’s problems, to introduce new approaches and outlook. The program will start in May, and I will be glad to answer any and all questions about it. Another of our achie…

  20.12.2016

• HackerRank Platform: ITMO has the World’s Best Programmers

  …project. There are different kinds of competitions; the last one was the University CodeSprint, where every student could compete for his university and earn ranking points by solving tasks. Besides for reputation, the winning university also got $ 5000." The recent contest gathered more than 5,500 students from 126 universities all over the world. According t…

  15.12.2016

• IT-Breakthrough in St. Petersburg: from Machine Vision to Smart Feeders

  …forest with an 85% probability. Alexander Atrashenko, a member of the jury and graduate of the Skolkovo Open University, advised him to refocus his project, as it can possibly solve the problem of machine vision that many companies work on. Andrei Myasnikov, managing partner of ITMO Future Technologies, also noted that the developers should better leave the idea of q…

  14.12.2016

• Aiming High: World’s Leading Experts on Modern Sports Programming

  …the Saint Petersburg State University team, notes that programming competitions are not only spectacular, but also really meaningful. According to him, modern champions easily solve tasks that seemed impossible some 10 years ago. The efficiency and speed the teams work with is getting better and better, and the code is becoming simpler, so now developing and testing …

  13.12.2016

• From Akinator Genii to Machine Learning: A Science Slam Participant on Detection Technologies

  …tabase I would've really liked to look at. So, the thing I've learned from Akinator is that machines can learn. That was really wonderful, as it was like the formula I used to solve math problems came alive and became a website known to millions of people. Akinator genii How do you plan to present your idea at Science Slam? The main point I want to shar…

  12.12.2016

• "Searching for Lost Kitties": ITMO student Develops an App for Finding Lost Pets

  …tures. As of now, we are yet to help anyone, so there's lots of place for improvement. We have to improve the usability, and also upgrade the search function. As soon as we solve this, we'll add other large cities to the app's geography. The most important part of our work would be interacting with users. Unfortunately, our app is not some magic: we can only find …

  06.12.2016

• Ivan Zasursky: Inaccessible Knowledge Divides Society

  …tion exchange flows prevent us from effective education. What to do to avoid going crazy? Vernadsky and Sakharov were right — knowledge has to be accessible. Firstly, it will solve issues related to the gap between social classes. Secondly, if communication is too fast, it would be better to focus on information that gives food for thought. It helps to fight with in…

  05.12.2016

• Popularizing Science: Director Dmitry Zagilevsky on Shooting Popular Science Films in Russia

  … you work on a film, you always meet new people, and each has his own story in science. I like to tell about their lives, about the complex philosophical problems they have to solve. For example, in the "Waiting for Waves and Particles", I show the work of physicists, who spent their lives on searching for gravitational waves, axions, magnetic monofields — the phenom…

  05.12.2016