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ITMO Graduate’s Startup Uses Neural Networks to Make Online Ads Useful
…lationships to each other, the atmosphere, the mood. Our neural network analyzes the mood or tone of the videos. Some advertisers don’t want to see their ads in videos of a certain tone. We, in turn, can recommend to them the right videos that fit their profile and those that don’t,” – says Vitaly Sotnikov. What is tone? Vitaly brings up an actual case. Imagine …
20.02.2018
SCAMT Lab's Anna Fakhardo Talks Nanobots and Cancer Research
…team. Tell us about this project It’s a pre-clinical trial of a magnetically controlled drug for treatment of thrombosis. It’s made up of a porous magnetite framework containing a thrombolytic agent (read more about this project here). We only conduct tests on animals, without human subjects. We modeled thrombi in animals, used the drug and observed how they di…
16.02.2018
Manage! Cup Semifinals: Participants Share
…, Ksenia Chalysheva from ITMO’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations, adds that it is the combined effort of participants with different experience that helps attain better results. “I suppose that the most interesting thing about these contests is that teams are formed from students with different backgrounds. We come from different program t…
16.02.2018
Chinese New Year in St. Petersburg
…ry 24 - Mr. Six/Lao pao er, 2015 February 25 - The Third Way of Love/Di san zhong ai qing, 2015 February 26 - A Tale of Three Cities/San cheng ji, 2015 February 27 - Mountains May Depart/Shan he gu ren, 2015 All films are shown in Chinese with Russian subtitles. Additionally, on February 24 the Angleterre Cinema (Malaya Morskaya st. 24) will screen the …
15.02.2018
ITMO’s Personal Development Center Launches New Courses
…gence of online courses and educational platforms had a great effect on the modern educational paradigm; since mid-zeros, the concept of 21st Century Skills that can help us attain our important goals, build a career and effectively face new challenges has been actively discussed on different levels. These skills can be divided into several modules that include analy…
14.02.2018
New Materials, Genes, And Crowd Management: Science Slam in St. Petersburg
…ate in terms of mammals: just three billion pairs of nucleotides and twenty thousand genes. A fruit fly’s genome is 30 times bigger, though it only has 15 thousand genes; a certain fish has a genome of 3,5 billion pairs of nucleotides, and 4 times more genes than us. Still, it is the amoeba that beats them all: it has 670 billions of pairs, and we are yet to decipher…
13.02.2018
The Dangers of Light Pollution
…ed only on a local level. What are the dangers of light pollution? If we’re talking animal health issues, this is a question of balance. A human eye is sensitive to a certain spectral band, while animals have a different range of sensitivity. Therefore, artificial lighting has a drastic effect on animals. What is more, we can well say that it harms them greatly…
13.02.2018
Academic Mobility: Studying Biotechnology at Sup Biotech Paris
…h focuses on different fields of biotechnology and training of mid-tier specialists for the bio-industry. According to the school’s representatives, its curriculum aims to maintain the interdisciplinary balance between scientific and engineering courses (lectures, laboratory work and projects), as well as gives students managerial skills and provides for communicatio…
12.02.2018
Chemist Ekaterina Skorb On International Work Experience And Prospects Of Infochemistry
…on. Our task is not to create a new cell, but something else that can effectively accumulate, store and process information in a similar way. We think that it is possible to attain that by combining chemical reaction networks and systems; we are already working on several ideas, including the creation of an artificial chemical cell. Still, we can’t succeed in doin…
12.02.2018
Researchers From ITMO Create First-Ever Light-Emitting Nanoantennas
…face to another substrate by means of pulsed laser ablation technique. Compared to alternatives, our method is relatively simple and cost-effective." While studying the obtained perovskite nanoparticles, the scientists discovered that their emission can be enhanced if its spectrum matches with the Mie-resonant mode. "Such resonances were named after the ren…
12.02.2018