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• European University’s Nikita Lomagin: How IT is Changing Historical Science

  …s, a million had survived. And that’s despite the inhuman conditions in which they lived. Our goal is to learn who survived and how, and whether there is a simple correlation between the categories of food stamps that people were assigned and their chances of survival. So far we’ve not been able to come to a firm conclusion. These questions can only be answered if…

  28.02.2019

• Head of Greenhouse of Social Technologies on Making the Best of AI

  …cAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, the authors of Machine, Platform, Crowd, speak of an essential change: the transition from “standard partnership” to a new type of a relationship between humans and machines. The standard partnership is about machines, robots and algorithms carrying out tasks that humans don’t want to or can’t do for whatever reason. The new partnership i…

  27.02.2019

• Head of Greenhouse of Social Technologies on Making the Best of AI

  …cAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, the authors of Machine, Platform, Crowd, speak of an essential change: the transition from “standard partnership” to a new type of a relationship between humans and machines. The standard partnership is about machines, robots and algorithms carrying out tasks that humans don’t want to or can’t do for whatever reason. The new partnership i…

  27.02.2019

• QS WUR by Subject 2019: ITMO University in Top-150 in Computer Science and First in Russia in Art & Design

  …h the ranking. As the staff of ITMO’s Rankings Research Center points out, the academic and employer reputation values are formed based on respondent surveys conducted between 2014 and the spring of 2018. The citation and h-index indicators are calculated based on publications in the relevant subject areas made in 2012-2016 and the citations these papers have …

  27.02.2019

• How the RENOIR Project Untangles the Chaos of Social Media and Why It Matters

  … has brought together a dozen of different universities, laboratories, and organizations, are focused on reconstructing the dynamics of dissemination of information in social networks. This includes, for instance, the dissemination of information, including rumors, on Twitter and Facebook as well as dynamics of news and their topics across time. The project is bas…

  26.02.2019

• ITMO Technopark Resident Wins International Contest On Blockchain Applications For Self-Driving Cars

  …ervices can be already used in the field of autonomous transport today. There was no set format for their answers. All solutions were accepted: from sharing data and payments between vehicles and infrastructure and working in decentralized environments via asset registration to solving related environmental issues and others. DCZD.tech’s idea was to develop a …

  26.02.2019

• Physicists from ITMO University Complete Tests of New Class of Resonators

  …Fano resonances arise due to the interaction of two waves with a certain relation between the amplitudes and phases, for example, during electromagnetic radiation scattering. This process is actively investigated and widely used to create resonators: devices that amplify electromagnetic signals. The main parameters of Fano resonances, which determine the peak’s width…

  26.02.2019

• Science-Pop for All Ages: ITMO Scientists’ How-To

  …ria. The bacteria in our book are like real characters with their own individual traits and personality. The pictures are all very colorful, however, we had to find a balance between fantasy and reality to adapt our material to our audience’s needs, and to make kids understand why it is good for them to eat less sweets and more veggies, and why they can catch a cold …

  25.02.2019

• How Researchers Use Big Data to Fight HIV and Addiction

  …e nature of an inquiry than the desire to keep up with the times. Many methods that we use today have existed 10 or 20 years ago, and we’re just giving them new names. Neural networks and neural trees were invented back in the 1960s, but they were soon forgotten because we just didn’t have any computers capable of handling them. Yet the methods still evolved. It was …

  25.02.2019

• Helping Sleepwalkers, Fighting Excessive Snow and Ensuring Better Security on Campus: Best Projects by 2019 “It’s Your Call!” Participants

  …pwalking. The product proposed by students comes in the form of special software which isn’t bound to a specific device. They envisage an algorithm such as a taught neural network that would record brain activity, after which the recordings would be sent to a smartphone where a special app would respond by generating a signal leading the patient out of a deep slee…

  25.02.2019