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• ITMO Celebrates Graduation Day In Style

  …stained themselves with nitrogen ice-cream and drinks provided by the School of Biotechnology and Cryogenic Systems. Throughout the day, one could buy souvenirs and clothing adorned with the university’s logos from the ITMO.STORE. The celebration ended with a concert by iconic St. Petersburg performers Billy’s Band. The band’s frontman Billy Novik joked about the wea…

  02.07.2017

• Lawns vs. Paths: Why Urban Planners Can’t Please Everybody

  …e is usually a certain city plan and people all react to it differently. It’s been known for a long time that, when crossing a square field, people will tend to cross it from corner to corner. So if people are allowed to decide where those paths should be, urban designers can adapt to crowd behavior and modernize the infrastructure on t…

  20.06.2017

• Days of Intellectual Property: How to Patent One’s Invention in the 21st Century

  …n, this will let Russian copyright holders register their industrial designs abroad. According to Stanislav Alexandrov, Vice-President of St. Petersburg Board for Patent Attorneys, constant development of modern technologies increases the importance of legal protection of software. “There are so-called software patents as well as IP regulations of software pr…

  24.04.2017

• King of the Ring: ITMO Sportsmen win the Student MMA League

  …ading shows by student teams of several universities of St. Petersburg and a performance by D.masta rap singer. It was decided that ITMO sportsmen would compete in the red corner – Shakhruramzan Galipov was the first participant of ITMO team who competed that day. He competed in the featherweight class (65.8 kg). Having defeated Igor Ilyin, a representative of St.…

  11.04.2017

• ITMO Opens a Judo Training Base

  …comments the Vice Rector. We are interested in further collaboration, and I believe that the recently signed agreement between ITMO University and JFLR will become one of the cornerstones on which we will develop important Olympic sports not only at our University, but in St. Petersburg in general. Surely, we are glad to become the leader in developing judo, jujitsu …

  27.03.2017

• Engineers Teach Self-Driving Cars Think

  …veral labs in the world. One of them is MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Its engineers created Duckietown, a robotics class with "a fleet of 50 duckie-adorned self-driving taxis that can navigate the roads." Ilya Vasin, one of the authors of the article and tutor at the Department of Secure Information Technologies, explains how the new syst…

  17.02.2017

• The Master Provocateur

  …stands before a football cup-tie. The invading Farbre works brutally and viciously rip attention away from the rightful inhabitants of this room: Jacob Jordaens, Brueghel, Cornelis De Vos. But at the same time, they paradoxically focus attention on the Old Masters. I have passed through these rooms many times but have never before looked with such intensity at Jor…

  03.02.2017

• A Taste for Science: Why the State Is Eager To Finance Universities' Fundamental Research?

  …ntal theory. For instance, to analyze signals from space, scientists need hi-end measuring equipment. This leads to developing technologies that can be used to control ground-borne robots. Then, this becomes a collaborative project with some company, where ground-borne robots are controlled by autonomous signals from the orbit. ITMO …

  25.01.2017

• Robotex-2016: Robots Race, Swim and Do Sumo!

  …strategy", explained Nikita Koptev. This was one of the most complex tasks. Few of the robots finished the route, so the jury assessed the results by counting the amount of corners and turns the robot passed. ITMO's team got 4th place, which is a really good result, as the university participated in this hackathon for the first time. …

  26.12.2016

• From Akinator Genii to Machine Learning: A Science Slam Participant on Detection Technologies

  …Snapchat uses them for its filters. As for security, forest fires are now detected using special probes with cameras that are a lot better at detecting fire outbreaks that airborne inspectors. When I was working on my Bachelor's thesis, I had the task of teaching a camera to discern a person against a static background so that they don't merge, as well as to try t…

  12.12.2016