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• Researchers use Instagram to Help Tourists See Cities from a Local's Perspective

  …om the European Union (32%) and their holidays rarely exceed 2 weeks.  Thus, a user was identified as a tourist if their posts in St. Petersburg during a calendar year were contained within two 15-day or less-long windows with a gap of at least 30 days between each time period. Furthermore, the programmers excluded the top 15 tourist locations. “The main idea behi…

  06.09.2017

• E-Governance: International Conference Just Ended at ITMO U

  …s an opportunity to get public services online. E-governance makes it possible not only to enroll children in school and apply for tax deduction from home, but also helps to obtain relevant information that allows you to more efficiently spend the state’s resources in various industries. For example, if the public transport timetable is publically available, it can s…

  06.09.2017

• ITMO Student Wins Sberbank Scholarship to Develop Neural Network for Investment Planning

  …r and over again. Simply put, the initial data, having been analyzed multiple times, becomes a set of traits, such as the direction of lines, specifics of forms and colors, certain elements (paws or ears) and others. In the end, the program makes a decision what kind of animal the picture depicts. If the answer is wrong, then the parameters are corrected to account f…

  04.09.2017

• Life in World of Resonances

  …broad. The department's lecturers have great experience and connections in what has to do with collaboration and exchange programs with scientific centers in Germany, Great Britain, Holland, USA, Mexico, Israel, Australia, and Finland. The students will also have the opportunity to apply their knowledge to practical tasks that have to do with developing new types of …

  01.09.2017

• ITMO.GO: New Students Join the ITMO Family

  … For the duration of the event, a large interactive zone was set up in Alexandrovsky park, where guests could experience driving “behind the wheel” of a Formula 1 car and entertain themselves by tugging a giant USB cord. Info-zones were also available for the university’s Master’s and postgraduate programs, as well as creative laboratories by FabLab and OLIMP. At the…

  31.08.2017

• Algorithm Summer School: New ITMO-STC Initiative

  …ummer school's program, they were to create a speech recognition system based on sound, video, and the combination of both. For experiments, they were to use STC's database containing videos with people spelling Russian numbers. They were also provided with baseline-system for acquainting themselves with speech recognition technologies. The main task was to improve t…

  31.08.2017

• Back Into Swing: Life-hacks For Adapting Your Lifestyle

  … Tedious work, be it in an office or on research projects, is the number one cause of stress, often followed by neurological conditions and heart diseases. For instance, a certain research shows that those who work more than eight hours a day have a 40% higher risk of suffering a heart attack. Also, workaholics perform worse in cognitive ability tests, for example, …

  31.08.2017

• Eduroam - Next Step Towards International Education System

  …or during international summer schools. Authorization requests come from users registered in different countries throughout the world: Norway, Sweden, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, China, Brazil, Australia, Japan, Estonia and many others. All in all, about 500 people have used this network since March. The system’s main advantage is that the users don’t have…

  31.08.2017

• Yandex Expert Shares Rules for Co-Existence of Humans and AI

  …y sources, agriculture (biotechnology, robotics, machine learning), transportation, urban planning – these are just some of the industries that are already being changed by certain projects. The German robot AILA. Credit: businessinsider.com “Do not interpret my words as if these are the most actively developing fields and the rest are slow and stagnant ind…

  29.08.2017

• ITMO University Gets Right To Award Academic Degrees

  …rotocols, define the award subjects they’ll be working with and issue the related documents. On one hand, this will increase the universities' authority, on the other - add certain requirements on the quality of theses, as well as the very thesis defense process,” comments Vladimir Nikiforov. Surely, we will consider the possibility of defending theses in Russian and…

  28.08.2017