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• The Future of Hard Drives: Hot Bits and Laser Recordings

  …ate drives (SSDs). This, however, does not mean that HDDs are becoming obsolete.   “Cloud services are actually based on the principles of magnetic storage, which remains to be the most cost- and energy efficient of its kind,” notes Alexandra Kalashnikova. “That’s why it requires further research. According to the latest forecasts, there will be HDDs with ov…

  31.03.2021

• ITMO University Professor Sergey Makarov Receives Elsevier’s Research Excellence Award Russia 2021

  …h the support of the Russian Union of Rectors, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Science Foundation, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Research Institute of Economics, Politics and Law in Science and Technology (RIEPL), and the international news agency Rossiya Segodnya.…

  30.03.2021

• Live Your Best Spring in St. Petersburg

  …sking in the sunlight finally flooding the streets? Whatever slush is still on the ground is definitely not enough to stop us! Try skipping your usual bus commute to walk home instead – even if it takes hours. If you choose the day correctly, you are almost guaranteed to discover new corners of the city, guided by dappled sunlight reflecting from every surface.  H…

  30.03.2021

• How To Teach a Computer To Interpret Text

  …pilation of new content on its basis. “Big neural networks are taught on enormously large amounts of texts, images, or melodies, depending on the task so that connections inside this neural network would detect certain patterns,” explains Ilya Surov, senior research associate at ITMO University’s National Center for Cognitive Resea…

  30.03.2021

• Picture of the Week: E. Coli-Based Bacterial Biofilm

  …npathogenic microorganisms can be used in the development of dynamic biological materials. A series of experiments on growing E. coli in a special transparent incubator installed on the object table of a stereoscopic microscope was conducted with the goal of performing macroscopic spatiotemporal characterization of the geometry of microorganism colonies. Image…

  29.03.2021

• Architectural Utopia: 5 Never-Implemented Soviet Projects

  …Moscow.  Topped with a 100-meter tall statue of Lenin, the 315-meter palace would become home to an administrative center and a congress hall, and even have a swimming pool inside – not to mention such tech advances as high-speed elevators, air purification systems, and massive media screens.  It was to be built on the site of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviou…

  29.03.2021

• ITMO's 121st Anniversary: Quizzes, Tours, and Lots of Gifts

  …tore and museum.  “We developed the route and texts for these tours on our own and while doing it, we spotted a range of interesting parallels and common grounds. For instance, the building on Birzhevaya Liniya once belonged to the Eliseevs, one of the wealthiest families in St. Petersburg who were incredibly successful merchants. Now it is home to ITMO Acce…

  29.03.2021

• Song of the Month: March 2021

  …as come when one March day I was struck by Duke Ellington’s The Single Petal of a Rose. I don’t know how to describe it properly as any word wouldn’t fit. When a solo piano begins to play this tender lullaby, it feels like every note of it is something personal the author shares only with you. Although this melody can be considered melancholic, I’d say it’s fulfillin…

  26.03.2021

• ITMO Staff Develop Tabletop VR Platform For Better User Experience

  …might not even notice it, but your brain and vestibular system do. The table comes to the rescue: it returns a sense of reality and solves the problem of disorientation,” explains Denis Stolyarov. The first prototype of the device appeared several years ago as part of a joint project between ITMO and MIT that focused on the commercialization of innovation. L…

  26.03.2021

• ITMO University Hosts the First IChem Prize Contest for School Students

  …e program and show our laboratories. And that's exactly what we did during the practical training in the fall and educational sessions at Zerkalniy Camp,” Ekaterina Skorb explains. “In fact, many universities do the same, namely, collaborate with school students. The IChem Prize contest encourages participants to turn to a wide range of fields. We strived for interdi…

  25.03.2021