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Digitally Immortalized: How the Solovetsky Monastery is Finding a New Life in Virtual Reality
…s and inner courtyards. “This multimedia resource will be of use not only to professional historians, but also to anyone who is interested in the Solovetsky monastery and wants to know of its historical background. Thanks to the cooperation of the Museum-Reserve’s qualified staff, who are overseeing the reconstruction, the project is guaranteed to be very inform…
30.05.2017
Science Fest: Growth of VR, Functional Food and Why Humanity Will Always Return to Earth
…r walking on a street. Where is the filming crew supposed to be? After all, the viewer can look anywhere: up, down, behind. Or another example: let’s imagine that the director wants a close-up of a character’s eyes. In a regular film, the camera would simply zoom in on the eyes, but in 360 it’ll just seem like the viewer has been pushed toward the character. The feel…
29.05.2017
Campus Festival: How to Learn About Science at a Bar
…he scientists and the laymen together. Events like these are important because they target an audience that might not know a lot about a certain field of knowledge – those who want to know, but can’t do it yet. In this regard, there are two chief priorities for development: firstly, scientists need to learn how to better present information, make it interesting, simp…
29.05.2017
Big Data and the Russian Dream
…round mid-November. “When I told my father I’m going to Russia, he told me “It’s your life but one thing you should know, my son, as a cautious guy, who’s getting older and wanting to earn your own money, you won’t be able to find a part time job in Russia.”” “My father told me he saw a video of the President filling up the gas at the station himself!” explained A…
29.05.2017
“White Night of Technology”: How to Ensure Cybersecurity and Teach Neural Networks to See
… lean towards 2035, he says. Still, scientists need not only to find a way of connecting to the human brain, but also solve the issue of quickly processing the information. WannaCry: how network attacks happen and the basics of “cyber-hygiene” Neural networks and neural interfaces have been a subject of the media for some years now. However, the
Why Google Loves Kotlin and Who Needs 2000 Programming Languages
…main goal was to create a “pragmatic” product, meaning that they focused not just on eliminating flaws and perfecting their language, which is what any developer would do, but wanted to make a truly beneficial tool. “Development tools, programming languages included, are constantly in motion. Languages differ from other tools in that it’s hard for them to evolve…
25.05.2017
Art&Science: How Big Data Becomes Art
…"digital lake": the visualized data is broadcasted on a large display above one’s head, in real time mode, 24/7. Among the first visitors to the tower were local fishermen who wanted to see where the fish are. Despite the fact that only 16 of the fish were tagged, people were under impression that they can receive data on everything that happens in the lake. "Fr…
24.05.2017
Faculty of Secondary Education Holds School Olympics on Occasion of Confederations Cup
…d the time for coming here. An event like this demonstrates that we don’t focus only on education, but we also greatly value physical development and health of our students. I want to point out that sport is what helps our students handle academic work easier. It helps them to unwind emotionally and psychologically”. Not only professors were invited to judge the…
23.05.2017
The Recent Nanophotonics and Metamaterials International Doctoral Summer School - Participants' Impressions
…ions, so my research can really help optimize the process. As of now, many teams do research in this field, which is believed to be most promising. Here at the Summer School I wanted to meet people who do corresponding experimental research and learn what results have. Also, it was most interesting to listen to reports of professional scientists - thanks to them, we …
23.05.2017