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Bringing the Aquabus Back: St. Petersburg Water Taxi Can Be in Demand Aain
The International Olympiad in Informatics – Russian High Schoolers Score Big
…The contest’s main goal is to promote computer science among schoolers and gather children talented in the field so that they can share scientific and cultural experience. Each country is represented by teams of four, the only exception being the host country that can have an additional unofficial team. This year, 308 contestants from 80 countries participated in the…
19.08.2016
«Yagodnoe» International Camp: Results and Achievements
…eries made of potatoes and apples. This project was considered the best. The fourth team worked with separated waste collection bins. They also made informational banners for promoting an ecological approach to waste. The fifth team used waste to build flowerbeds and presented them to their colleagues. A cultural quest «Two or three times we've had evenings dedi…
17.08.2016
ITMO University Participates in the Erasmus+ Program
…ucation, training, youth and sports for the period of 2014-2020. The project finances not only academic exchange and student mobility, but also initiatives for development and promotion of new pedagogical techniques and materials, educational models for meeting the demands of the modern educational market. One such task is the development of an open online course in …
15.08.2016
Optics Used for Measuring Blood Velocity
…me in untimely. Our device will help the health care system to save this money. However, this diagnostic method is not as universal as the MRT, for instance, so it's harder to promote the necessity of its introduction. Currently the occlusive laser-optical plethysmograph is being used in the Federal Almazov North-West Research Center. …
10.08.2016
I, Chatterbot: Why Virtual Conversational Partners are on Trend Again
…hich has now developed one of the end-of-the-line bot platforms. Then, both Facebook and Vkontakte started using APIs, though they are still against bots who imitate humans to promote groups or pages. As of now, bots are starting to handle orders for online stores, work as tech support when it does not imply the help of an engineer ("turn it off, then on" and cases l…
05.08.2016
Bioinformatics Summer School: Where Tech and Biology Come Together
…mmune antibodies that cause the same diseases. These diseases, are now known to be associated with the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Analysis of antibodies in blood serum is a promising diagnosis of the disease. The developers of this project became winners of a contest held at the Summer school. Participants also engaged in research work related to other scientific …
03.08.2016
Virtual Reality Classrooms: Education of the Future
…in 2014, the Video360Production project started using these technologies and it has already been widely tested in the field of culture, art, tourism and has identified several promising areas, including education. The Video360Production project started exploring the idea of creating virtual classrooms early in 2016. A “virtual” classrooms requires VR-headsets (in …
01.08.2016
Forum for Strategic Initiatives: Experts Look Towards the Future
…gency for Strategic Innovations also organized a two-day foresight school within the forum. Its goal was to develop new educational programs focused on the NTI markets and new promising professions. According to Ms. Svetlana Kochkaeva, a manager for the Center for Science and Technology Foresight, the event was arranged mostly for representatives of universities; yet…
26.07.2016
Time to Register For Russia’s First Online Science Communication Course
…iting news articles and long-reads, working with media, experts, etc. The students will learn of the current state of science journalism, new approaches to using media for the promotion of science, and will be taught the basics of organizing science events. The video lectures for the course were created with the help of reputed science communicators such as Egor Z…
25.07.2016