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• Forming Bonds: Visiting Scientists on Chemistry Research and Working Abroad

  …k here adds value and additional results to their research, which they can take back to Leipzig to inform their next steps. The synthetic MOFs that they are working on have certain properties due to their network of nanoscale pores. Rafaella is trying to improve the properties of these synthetic materials for targeted drug delivery. “When you encase a drug in a …

  12.07.2017

• ITMO Enters Medialogia's Universities Media-Ranking

  …e for Russian mass media; few people understand what collegiate programming is. So we decided to draw a comparison between the Contest and the Olympic Games, and we ended up obtaining interesting figures. For example, the International Collegiate Programming Contest has actually gathered four times more participants than the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.  Facts like t…

  12.07.2017

• First Russian Li-Fi Network Launched at ITMO University

  …Wi-Fi “dead zones”. Professor Haas also pointed out the evident drawback of the technology: once in the dark, Internet will not be available. Another problem is in somehow maintaining the signal while moving from one room to another. Harald Haas is one of the co-founders of “pureLIFI” - a company that already owns a device able to provide such a connection. The fi…

  12.07.2017

• ITMO Researchers Seek to Improve MOOC Effectiveness

  …on – the authors propose a special technique that aims to increase the students’ cognitive abilities. “It is no secret that user interface in online education services contain a great deal of information that is constantly being updated; there are all sorts of graphs and information fields. Someone who hasn’t had any experience with online education would have a…

  11.07.2017

• MIT Experts on Russian Entrepreneurship

  …hruti Banda: On top of that I was impressed by the Business Incubator itself. In the previous school where I worked there wasn’t much space for group work. In MIT there are certain areas made for this purpose. Also, here I have noticed that the students have places for group projects on several floors, which seems to be enough. That is really great because students c…

  10.07.2017

• Cafe Society: A New Wave of Urban Coffee Culture Hits the Streets of St. Petersburg

  …is is a population kept awake – and alive – by one particular dark sweet medicine. Yes, we’re talking about: coffee. The main dilemma facing most Peterburgers is where to obtain their daily dose. When I first came to this city twenty years ago, there were pitifully few decent cafes in the city: the Literaturnoe Café on Nevsky which was – and still is - awash with …

  06.07.2017

• ITMO Scientists Receive Alferov Foundation Award

  …m pattern of a scattered modulated laser impulse. They've also proposed concepts of switches of comparable size that allow rotating the light beam at immense speed. "To attain bit-timing frequencies of tens and hundreds gigahertz or even terahertz, we need faster processes and dowsers. Nanoantennas can be used for that purpose; we've picked a specific non-linear…

  06.07.2017

• Technopark Resident VISmart: Helping Machines Think Like Humans

  …ds, so when you type in a search request like “Who is Ivan married to?” the system will recognize the word “married”, but will not find any results, since its database only contains records with the word “spouse”. Combining semantic technologies with Natural Language Processing tools helps a system recognize that, at their core, the words “married” and “spouse” have …

  06.07.2017

• PhD Students Win Research Scholarships in Germany

  …ognize speech in both audio and video formats simultaneously:  it will read lips and recognize speech recorded with a microphone. We will unite these two modalities so as to attain most precise results," shares the researcher. The system will make use of machine learning and neural networks.  As of now, the developer already has a prototype - a basic version tha…

  05.07.2017

• ITMO and Partners Launch Women’s Acceleration Program Girls4Tech

  …ustry than those whose careers span decades. According to Mr. Korotin, the distinguishing quality of the program’s participants is their fresh look at the problems faced by certain industries (young developers see the world differently from the experts who have spend years in the industry). Because of this, those who have just arrived on the market possess an opportu…

  04.07.2017