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• NTR 20.35 BarCamp Explored Prospects for Neural Interfaces

  …ofessional sportspeople in the US have now started using brain electrostimulation to boost their performance. They say that at the Olympics, even a second’s worth of time gap between you and another contestant can make or break your final result. That’s why they’re eager to experiment with different tools in order to get closer to that coveted first place. That is wh…

  15.11.2018

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

  …ast 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 pos…

  13.11.2018

• ITMO’s KronBars Tops List of Russia’s Best Student Sports Clubs

  … the participating clubs were created after 2013. We can see the dynamics of their development with their logos starting to appear, their audience growing and the competition between the clubs increasing,” shares Vyacheslav Morozov. During the Forum, the participants had several tasks to solve. First, they had to come up with a strategy of ASSC development u…

  12.11.2018

• Do Smart Traffic Lights Dream of Self-Driving Cars? Traffic Expert Nil Podozerov Thinks So

  …onsider two aspects when creating a signal post-regime. The first is safety parameters, also known as minimal time frames of when the signal lamps are lit up, and the periods between the green light phases for conflicting movement flows. The second aspect is the duration of the main cycles. This factor is calculated based on flows which need to be attended to. Safety…

  12.11.2018

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

  …ment and Goal Setting’, and other activities. According to ITMO graduate and one of the school’s speakers Nikita Lopatin, a technological entrepreneur serves as a mediator between science and business. “Technological entrepreneurs don’t just earn money; they understand the way the system works. That’s what we try to teach our students: how the market function…

  12.11.2018

• Pick a Dream Apartment Like a Russian

  …risscrossed with clotheslines.  To this day, you can find communal apartments in St. Petersburg, once owned by nobility and then appropriated by the Bolsheviks and divided between multiple families. Tenants still have to use the shower according to a schedule. Many of these places, however, have been converted back to beautiful and expensive single-family apartmen…

  12.11.2018

• ITMO Scientists Win Scopus Award Russia 2018

  …reate a new generation of electronics. Of course, it won’t be easy, but I believe that our large international team can handle it. For example, as a result of a collaboration between Dmitry Gets, Eduard Danilovsky, Arthur Ishteev, my team and the staff of MISIS University, we have been able to create the world’s first dual functional devices. It turns out that solar …

  09.11.2018

• Go with the Flow, Ask Questions, and Shoot for the Stars: Lessons from a Gamedev Meetup

  … really are, and you can do nothing about it. Either you wait until the engine creators fix the problem, or you give up. Another option is attending meetups like this one and networking with some brainy people who will kindly suggest a solution. I used to think, ‘Just give me a sec and I’ll make a cool narrative game with a spot-on design that will 100% look like …

  09.11.2018

• Grant Applications No Longer a Headache: Potanin Scholarship Lifehacks from Successful Contestants

  …to spend the money on. Of course, you will still be able to make changes to your budget, but the organizers have to see what logic you’re using. Try to balance your spendings between business trips, equipment and salaries (to yourself and your employees). Don’t mention anything you think you won’t be able to make (for example, don’t write about a business trip you ar…

  08.11.2018

• Yandex Product Manager Anna Lopatukhina: on Scrum, Agile and Trying New Things

  …uantitative and qualitative data. Then you use this to figure out how this idea may be improved. And back to step one. The faster, the better. In best cases, it’s only a week between the idea appearing and it being tested. Months are less preferable, and years are definitely out of the question. The ways of checking a hypothesis differ depending on the project. Fo…

  08.11.2018