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• Inkjet Printers Can Produce Cheap Micro-Waveguides for Optical Computers

  …ely used in communication. Many people know that it can transmit a signal over long distances with minimal losses, providing us, as an example, with stable and high-speed Internet. However, as devices become smaller and smaller, scientists and engineers have come up with an analog of fiber on a microscale. Such devices are called waveguides. They are integral in crea…

  21.11.2018

• Top Russian and European Firms Present Concept Designs for ITMO Highpark

  …s, reviewed four design concepts for ITMO University’s innovative new campus in the south of St. Petersburg. The solutions were developed by the following firms: MVRDV (The Netherlands) MVRDV has previously worked on a number of major construction projects in the Netherlands, France, China, India, and other countries. Among their …

  20.11.2018

• Scientists Developed Enzymes with Remote Control

  …ch as radio frequency field. To make radio-controlled enzymes, the scientists synthesized a special complex in which an enzyme is enclosed in a rigid porous framework of magnetite nanoparticles. Whenever the radio field is applied, the nanoparticles adsorb radio emission and heat up, passing additional energy to the enzyme and resulting in the enzymatic reaction r…

  20.11.2018

• ITMO Robotics Team Wins Gold at World Robot Olympiad 2018 in Thailand

  …atics Lyceum №239. ITMO team competed with a project Strawberry Fields. This is a smart fruit patch like no other, being handled by a robot which uses a camera and a neural network to locate the berries, identify how ripe they are, and uploads the map of the patch to the Internet. Connecting through a special app, fruit lovers then c…

  19.11.2018

• National Technology Revolution 20.35: Universities as Driving Force of Change

  …her education partners. Modern universities are very quick in adapting to new tasks, for example, those in the fields of artificial intelligence, digital medicine, Internet of Things, online education, and Fintech, which are also in our point of focus. The universities get involved in our projects and propose theirs, but there are a couple of aspects we would …

  16.11.2018

• BIOCAD VP Roman Ivanov: “Biotechnologies are the Cornerstone of Medicine of Tomorrow”

  …Medicine of the Future: Genetic Technologies In recent times, a massive leap has been made in regards to the introduction of modern genetic technologies in medicine and other healthcare fields. Because of this, modern-day medicine is undergoing a major change; medical science and applied medicine are very different from what we’re us…

  15.11.2018

• NTR 20.35 BarCamp Explored Prospects for Neural Interfaces

  …nd with a wide range of possible applications ranging from medicine to sports. But as noted by Vitaly Zubchenko, moderator of the discussion and Head of ITMO University’s NeuroNet project office, the majority of people in Russia still remain unaware of such breakthrough solutions, although these are widely used in other countries. “Many professional sportspeople…

  15.11.2018

• New York University Professor’s Take on Future of Digital Cities

  …vast amounts of data are generated. City traffic, energy consumption, taxi and public transport routes, phone calls, credit card transactions, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth data, social networks – we leave our digital traces everywhere. Nowadays, these data are actively used in smart cities research and planning in order to make modern cities as comfortable to live in as po…

  13.11.2018

• Neural Network-Generated Illustrations and Food Delivery App for the Visually Impaired: Teens in Tech School at ITMO

  …hey had only one evening to complete this task. Among the most interesting projects was the one called FBip. This is a software that creates book illustrations using neural networks. The project’s target audience is book publishing offices and freelance illustrators, who don’t have enough money or skill to illustrate their books on their own, without using extra t…

  12.11.2018

• Kunstkamera: Russia’s Bizarre First Museum

  …ost commonly used name: the Kunstkamera. This small chamber hosts the museum’s very first collection: items brought by Peter the First from his journeys to Europe. This Cabinet of Curiosities (which was the common name for such places) displays exhibits most startling and grotesque. Apart from different 18th-century surgical tools (Peter had a great many interests…

  09.11.2018