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• Spin Unit Co-Founder on Social Networks’ Effect on Urban Life

  …year, we tried to understand the citizens' lifestyle, what's important to them, and how they spend their free time. The interesting thing is that in St. Petersburg, people maintain some "classical" relationship with the city, meaning there are traditional places that attract the citizens - the local sights; also, there are many subcultures here. The citizens organize…

  31.07.2017

• International Research Team Makes Progress in HRS Virus Study

  …at Mount Sinai, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the Emory University School of Medicine. Respiratory syncytial virus. Credit: wikipedia.org HRSV contains a specific unstructured protein NS1 which suppresses the body’s immune system. This protein inhibits the interferon response, prevents the maturation of dendritic cells and stimulates the…

  31.07.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …a $100 million program to launch robotic interstellar missions, has sent into orbit the smallest-ever satellites. The six prototypes, dubbed Sprites, weigh only 4 grams and contain solar panels, computers, sensors, and radios on a surface equal to that of a U.S. postage stamp. The Breakthrough Starshot mission aims to show that Sprites could one day become light-prop…

  30.07.2017

• Starcon 2017: From Space Travel to 3D Printing

  …rsed into the role. After “waking up” aboard a space station, players traverse the ship and complete various assignments. ITMO University’s FabLab has set up a space captain competition. To compete, one has to sign up as a captain and then run the gauntlet against other participants. The tests included a shooting practice and end…

  28.07.2017

• ITMO University Wins Grant on Developing New Decision Support System

  … opportunity to rate different financial products based on individual criteria. For instance, there already are services that allow to keep a history of mobile calls from a certain cellphone where algorithms help choose the best service plan for its owner. The new service will help users choose loans in a similar way, and also protect them from deceptive advertising …

  28.07.2017

• New Genetic Algorithm by ITMO's Scientists Wins Prize at GECCO-2017

  …ince 1999; at this event, scientists and engineers from all over the world discuss the most relevant topics in such fields as genetic algorithms, complex systems, digital entertainment industry and arts, machine learning and many others. At GECCO-2017, Maksim Buzdalov and Benjamin Doerr presented the results of their research where they succeeded in defining the c…

  27.07.2017

• ITMO and VNIIM Develop Joint Master's Program in Metrology

  …perts, we need to pick students who already have a wide range of experience, since when they will start learning metrology, they will mostly be taught specific knowledge of certain measurement problems. The program mixes math, physics, computer science and other sciences. The students need to already have a scientific basis to easily begin designing and building thei…

  25.07.2017

• Programming the Future: ITMO University’s 2016 Annual Report

  …n Scopus and 4.82 in Web of Science. In comparison with last year, these indicators doubled, as well as citation rates of articles by the university's staff and students. Attaining such results became possible thanks to the university investing maximum resources in the most relevant and in-demand research. For that purpose, the university's structure was changed s…

  25.07.2017

• Neural Interfaces as Art: How Does Neurotheater Work?

  …lors that expressed their emotions were used because they describe these women, their taste and their inner world. During our rehearsals, we asked the actresses to recall a certain emotion, either by remembering something positive and right after something negative and and we wrote down what we observed. This correlation between negative and positive emotions was ver…

  21.07.2017

• How a Russian Teenager Cracked Nation's Largest Social Network in His Spare Time

  …g, because Ilya managed to earn good grades in school, play and do something on the computer. He was always independent and we had to rein him in. He was into swimming and mountain skiing. Every year we go to Finland to ski. Ilya doesn’t like to ski on normal routes; he loves to ski in the forest. Ilya with his family members Ilya, when and how did computer s…

  21.07.2017