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• Winter Forces: Volunteering and Retreat Trip All-in-One

  …oncerns you left in the city,” shares Oleg. In addition to the team leader and the regular members, the team includes a “kommissar” who is responsible for the team’s entertainment program. This year the responsibility went to Uma Agaeva. “I was responsible for the entertainment program and the team’s emotional state. I did…

  27.02.2019

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

  …lume of user-generated data amounted to 33ZB, and according to forecasts by the IDC, it will reach 175ZB by 2025. The driving factor of this process will be the data from entertainment platforms, IoT devices, performance-tuning devices, and metadata. All of that is very important from the standpoint of analytics and contextualization of information. The goal of th…

  26.02.2019

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

  …aking less often, ultimately decreasing the accumulation of vehicles around. The system we introduce gives a financial incentive to both piloted and autonomous vehicles to maintain such behavior by getting paid for the road space and yielding to the other cars. We hope that this system will evolve to become a part of our daily traffic infrastructure.” In ess…

  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

  …ls the world together with his friend Bacteroid to find out what bacteria live there and what we need them for. Was it difficult to make your book both informative and entertaining? Dmitriy: The main goal of the book is to help children familiarize themselves with the world of science and bacteria. The bacteria in our book are like real characters with their ow…

  25.02.2019

• How Researchers Use Big Data to Fight HIV and Addiction

  …n has closed down and left people unemployed. We’ve also seen that in places like this, medical specialists begin to issue more prescriptions for painkillers, which tend to contain opioids. A drug epidemic is likely to follow because people who develop a painkiller addiction are likely to switch to hard drugs. If they begin using heroin, which means intravenous injec…

  25.02.2019

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

  …n the case of visitors violating main rules regarding entry; this would be also accompanied by a security camera. All students and staff would be given a personal pass card containing an RFID tag and their fingerprint scan. Upon entering a university building, they would need to scan the finger; if their fingerprint corresponds to the database scan, they will be let …

  25.02.2019

• ITMO University and Government of Moscow’s Department for Education and Science to Launch IT Classes in City’s Schools

  …c School project. According to the initiators of the “IT classes” project, this training will help soon-to-be graduates make an informed choice of their future career and obtain high-quality preprofessional knowledge necessary for successful studies at leading universities specializing in this field. As noted by the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin, it is this kind…

  22.02.2019

• Unexplored Saint Petersburg: The Bolshoi State Circus

  …red velvet of the seats and the hush that falls around the arena as the drumroll rocks the house. It was pure magic. As the live orchestra took their first note and the curtain lifted, giddy kids slid to the edge of their seats to watch riders do death-defying tricks on galloping horses and equilibrists rise all to the way to the top of the dome. As the show prog…

  22.02.2019

• ITMO University and EUSP Launch Joint Master’s Program ‘Science and Technologies in Society’

  …, and these include such courses as “Classical Social Theory”, “Sociological Methods”, and “The Study of Science and Technology”. For its own part, ITMO University will maintain the IT aspects of the program. That includes courses on scientometric analysis and science mapping, as well as data analysis and processing. And thanks to ITMO’s already established SciCom…

  20.02.2019