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• ITMO Student Joins Research at XFEL

  … electrons in the surface layers of a solid body and release it. An electron escapes, and special sensors are used to measure its energy. Then scientists study the difference between the energy of the X-ray photon and the released electron; this difference is the energy binding the electron to the compound. We can use all this to study how electronic structures of co…

  12.09.2017

• How to Make the Perfect User Interface

  … creator of a popular typographic layout and the developer of the Aegea blogging engine. The four-day intensive course is dedicated to the principles of effective interaction between users and graphic interfaces: the intricacies of information perception in humans, the formation of user habits, use of text in interface elements and the informational value of text and…

  11.09.2017

• RACIRI-2017 Summer School in Sweden

  …time that the summer school is being held as part of a collaborative framework of the Röntgen-Angström-Cluster (RAC) and the Ioffe-Röntgen-Institute (IRI), a joint initiative between Russia, Sweden and Germany. The three countries are trying to pave the way  in using the best X-rays and neutron sources in material science.   Participants of the 5th International…

  11.09.2017

• Machine Intelligence - Key to New Age of Creativity

  …te articles about weather, traffic, currency rates and the like. Classical journalism ended up in a competition with robot journalism on the one side and with emerging social networks on the other. The latter birthed the phenomenon of “citizen journalism”  - the product of the environment where nearly everyone has access to a camera and social media. Sergey Para…

  08.09.2017

• ITMO Scientists Help Link Alzheimer’s to Lack of Energy in Immune Cells

  …ot happen, beta amyloids begin to form lesions around neurons. This results in a disruption of the neurons’ regular activity – including the formation of synaptic connections between nerve cells, while the neurons themselves die off. All of this, combined with other factors, leads to Alzheimer’s disease. Why does this happen? What makes microglia cease their most …

  08.09.2017

• Robot Economics: How Industry 4.0 Will Change Our Life

  …nce and Control Systems, who, too, was present as a speaker at Robonomics-2017. How it will work The basic feature of robot economics is the making of “smart” contracts between robots and people, as well as robots and robots. To understand how that might work, imagine a vending machine that no longer needs human maintenance. When the machine runs out of snacks …

  07.09.2017

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

  …People tend to photograph significant moments or places. Therefore, social networks such as Instagram are constantly becoming more and more popular. At this time, there are more than 700 million monthly active users around the world with 14.4 million of them in Russia. In most cases, people post photos either because it’s the first time they visited a place or, on th…

  06.09.2017

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

  …i, talked about how open data ecosystems are stimulated. Scientists from Stockholm University, Karin Hansson and Love Ekenberg, gave a lecture on the value and role of social networks in crisis situations. Specialists from the Institute of Technology in Nagoya (Japan), Masaru Watanabe, Shun Shiramatsu and Yasuaki Goto shared the results of their research in the field…

  06.09.2017

• Students at the Crossroads: Making Life Priorities at the Personal Development Center Workshops

  …3 September from 10am to 5pm. Registration for the training is available at this link (in Russian). Large organizations have carried out studies revealing the relationship between effective work and the happiness of staff. It turns out that happy people work better, they’re ready to work more and intensively. From the point of view of the persons themselves, they …

  06.09.2017

• ICM-2017: ITMO Team Shows Great Results

  …anced Mathematics and Javlon Isomurodov from Computer Technologies Department - this year’s participation in IMC-2017 was a debut. Participants of ICM-2017. Credit: social networks "The problems in this competition are more conceptual; you have to spend more time on inventing original solutions rather than using some rote techniques. All of them are quite com…

  05.09.2017