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Geek Picnic-2017: Richard Dawkins, Cyborgs, VR and Psychological Experiments
…ent's participants continued to torture the "students", and only 12.5% of them stopped right after the students said they experience pain. Later, the experiment was deemed unethical, as it traumatized the ones tested, twisted their values and brought mental harm. It was then that the ethical code of psychologists was created. Roman Tikhonov also reminded the festi…
25.06.2017
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International Team Proposes New 3D Topological Insulator Design
…external disturbances or any defects of the surface's material. Previously, scientists from ITMO University have already developed a similar material, which protects electromagnetic waves instead of electrons. In that case, an electromagnetic wave falls on an array of special resonant particles arranged in a particular way. In such a st…
23.06.2017
ITMO University Launches The New Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics Laboratory
…les' surface. Another promising field is Energy harvesting. It has to do with using photovoltaics for charging mobile devices, sensors, everything that has to do with the Internet of Things and the like. We are also interested in Building-integrated photovoltaics, as well," comments Viktoria Zheltova. At the ICOE-2017 conference in the beginning of June wher…
22.06.2017
“Digital Talents”: How a New Generation of Specialists Changes the Way Companies Work
…nly focusing on the basics (infrastructure, online expenses and embeddedness), but also boosting investments from the private and government sector into innovative areas (Internet of Things, Big Data, development of IT products and services with a high export potential), its digital share of economy could reach a value of 5.6% (as compared to the expected European av…
22.06.2017
New Femto-Camera with Quadrillion Fractions of a Second Resolution
…cological, neurodegenerative diseases, as well as monitoring cells during surgical interventions like, for example, cancer therapy. “Our device will help biologists and genetic engineers track what is happening inside a living cell with a resolution of about 50 femtoseconds – this is enough to resolve many biochemical reactions. Theoretically, the camera can eve…
22.06.2017
ITMO Students in Singapore: How to Please Customers by Analyzing Their Social Media
… of work involves figuring out someone’s personality and behavior patterns. Credit: g1.dcdn.lt Profiling algorithm The algorithm works with sets of data that social network users voluntarily post on the internet, such as geotags, public posts, personal bios, photos and captions. All this information is translated into paramet…
21.06.2017
Art&Science: Optical Devices In Fine Arts And Design's Role In Evolution
…ablecloth is not in focus while its frontal part is. That is also evidence of an artist using optics, believes the expert. Lorenzo Lotto's Husband and Wife Credit: liveinternet.ru Having conducted the necessary research, professor Falcone came to a conclusion that the artist used an optical device, as one can not attain such focusing depth with the unaided eye.…
21.06.2017
ITMO's PhD Students Will Simplify Online Learning On OpenEdX
… open online courses. "The main problem was that initially, the system worked by itself, and was not bound to any platform. It is now extremely widespread, many Internet users work with it, so we've decided to develop it further," explains Dmitriy Volchek, PhD student at ITMO's Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics. The researchers focused …
20.06.2017
Lawns vs. Paths: Why Urban Planners Can’t Please Everybody
… an understanding of what factors can lead to harmful scenarios like, say, stampedes. Tell us about some of the most unusual discoveries you’ve made when studying urban networks? Most of my work concerns modeling large-scale complex systems, such as urban processes and human behavior. Together with other researchers we’ve discovered a few interesting things…
20.06.2017