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Dimensions: New Analysis Platform Makes Science Trends Analysis Easier
…totypes and patents. Dimensions can also help gauge the social and scientific response to a particular study using a special set of measurements, like its popularity on social networks and mass media, or the number of its citations in other scientific articles. The website provides links to original sources of the publications and sorts them according to their scient…
17.01.2018
Digital Culture: New Educational Module At ITMO University
…has to do with data management. What’s the purpose of getting such knowledge? Information technologies have entered all aspects of our lives. The future belongs to the Internet of Things, blockchain and other distributed networks, automation and robot economy. The overall amount of data continues to grow, and processing it can contri…
16.01.2018
Eleven ITMO Scientists Receive Presidential Scholarships
…development of this fascinating field with an expert team from Trinity College and ITMO University, to whom I am very grateful. Among them are Yuri Gunko, Anna Orlova, Vera Kuznetsova and Finn Purcell-Milton. Despite a great deal of interest and a number of studies dedicated to the use of hybrid nanostructures in photodynamic therapy (PDT) of oncological disea…
15.01.2018
10 Top Tech Trends of 2018: Part Two
… involve linking and sharing data between various city grids and infrastructures, combined with information from smartphone users who will become "integral nodes of smart-city networks". A discussion was held during CES-2018 with technology heads from Miami, Las Vegas and Kansas City. They noted that “smart” technology is already quite applicable in practical life…
15.01.2018
Winter School “It’s Your Call!”: Leading Experts’ Lectures, Semi-Hackathon and Chess Pong.
…logies" (SCAMT), the Center for Robotics and others. Winter school “It’s your call!” is attracting a great panel of speakers: Andrey Sebrant - one of the first figures of RuNet, a Russian scientist, the director of marketing services of Yandex; Roman Elizarov - the head of the group of developers of libraries for the computer language Kotlin in JetBrains; Lidia Pe…
12.01.2018
10 Top Tech Trends of 2018: Part One
…ation discussed the technologies that they believe will transform our lives this year. 1. 5G As soon as the end of 2018, the American provider AT&T offers to deploy a 5G network in 12 USA cities. Initially, this was planned for 2020, yet in December, 2017 the 3GPP consortium already approved the new standard. According to CTA, the introduction of 5G will al…
12.01.2018
Social Media: Does It Change Us? Here’s What Science Thinks
…senger software in the modern sense of the word, launched in 1996. However, the website Six Degrees, launched a year later, is considered to have been the first actual “social network”, letting users set up personal pages, find friends and exchange files. This means that social media is now barely more than 20 years old. However, social net…
12.01.2018
ITMO and ER-Telecom Sign Research & Education Partnership Agreement
…ER-Telecom provides services related to cable and HD television, internet access and digital telephony. The holding company was established in 2001 and is active in 566 cities and localities of Russia. In recent years, the company made an active effort to integrate innovative solutions, such as multiscreen, catch-up and video-on-demand services, into its products. It…
11.01.2018
Scientists Propose New Type Of Terahertz Solid-State Laser
…Terahertz radiation is a type of electromagnetic radiation with a frequency spectrum between IR and microwave bands. One of the most interesting things about it is that it can penetrate most dielectrics. For one, wood, plastic, and ceramic are transparent to it. Also, as opposed to x-radiation, it is totally harmless to the human organi…
11.01.2018
ITMO Master's Student Receives Praise for Immuno-Oncology Research
… protein. It is important that the molecules are valid in terms of chemistry: they should not be toxic, and they need to be synthesized. The global idea is to train the neural network to recognize the active protein center and on the basis of the data on which the network is trained, to select possible chemical compounds to the protein.…
10.01.2018