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• ITMO Students Gear Up For Convoluted Machine Competition

  …er almost three minutes of action. The sequence involves all the traditional elements of a Goldberg machine: balls, pendulums, water, air bursts, swings and other sources of kinetic energy, as well as some so-called “visual effects”, i.e. elements that exist outside the chain and serve to make the process more spectacular. Goldberg Cup This year marks the first…

  19.10.2017

• Doctor Yang Bai: “Now, We Can Collect Energy From Light, Motion, AND Heat At The Same Time”

  … with ITMO's Higher School of Lighting Design in the field of creating smart accessories that will make use of the new technology to produce electricity from light, heat and kinetic energy. The second project has to do with sidewalks, yet specialists are still working on the issue of sidewalks being not transparent, which prevents them from absorbing sunlight. …

  19.10.2017

• ITMO Projects uHVAT and Drone Employee Celebrate Win at GoTech

  …h for projects in the field of entertainment (partner FunCubator); VC Pitch for projects in the field of machine learning, big data, virtual and augmented reality and the Internet of things; Robotics & AI for projects involving robots and artificial intelligence. In addition, winners were selected by GoTech and partners including Beeline, Google "Kaspersky Lab", Dell…

  17.10.2017

• Why Smart Cities Need Standardization: Experts Discuss

  …its population with regard to such problems. Cities produce the greater part of the GDP, consume most energy and resources, and are the source of most of the garbage on the planet - so, we're trying to make them "smart". A "smart city" is a system of systems: it has neither a beginning nor end and is constantly changing.  This is why developing relevant standards is …

  17.10.2017

• Lighting Design Conference: A Bright Future For St. Petersburg

  …tle about. But these new analytical tools can help us study the issue in-depth and avoid risks,” – he said. Narboni has used analysis of Big Data acquired from social networks for some of his projects in Paris. His project team received a massive amount of information about people’s movements at night, their activity and points of attraction. Using this data…

  16.10.2017

• Gazprom Media Technologies CEO: Never Say "I Have No Experience"

  … and abilities. But never say that you have no experience. It's not true. If you ever did something for someone - it could be organizing an event at university or even an internet broadcast - it is a valuable experience. What’s most interesting, is that frequent experience, which is valued more than you even realize, is one of the needs of your employer. For examp…

  16.10.2017

• How to Change the World Through Cooking

  …zes the food infrastructure in schools and hospitals. At the same time, the organization examines each single venue’s local infrastructure and develops their individual supply network to ensure that the ingredients are fresh and affordable. International integration This research is virtually unknown to the public. Even those who work in the field can only …

  13.10.2017

• Spaceports: Where They Are and How to Get There

• ITMO Scientists Prove Skyrmion Laser Manipulation

  …Exactly ten years ago, in 2007, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to scientists Peter Grünberg and Albert Fert. In 1988, they discovered the giant magnetoresistive effect (GMR effect), or giant magnetoresistance (GMR). This effect initiated spintronics. Spintronics is a technology of data storage and processing in which information…

  12.10.2017

• Girls4Tech Graduates Present Final Projects

  … involves the feature that lets users create sets of stickers for online messengers based on users’ faces; the next stage includes the option to model faces in 3D using neural networks. In the end, the project’s authors intend to let users overlay their own face over the face of actors in videos. For that purpose, the developers aim to film videos with actors wearing…

  11.10.2017