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The Radio-Astronomical Triangle of Russia’s Institute of Applied Astronomy’s Quasar-KVO Complex
…l radio-sources and spacecraft. The receiver complex is handled remotely, from the radio telescope’s central computer. Its signals are processed and analyzed with all the meteorological data taken into consideration. Radio interferometric-mode observations are the most difficult for the radio telescope to manage, as these last for days and consist of continuously …
28.02.2019
ITMO Master’s Student on Using Robots in Medicine
…? We continued looking for talented workers. We found one, then another, and it turned out that they both were from ITMO. That’s when I decided that it would be easier to enroll at ITMO and look for people from the inside. This is how I ended up studying bioengineering and biotechnical systems at ITMO. Of course, finding good employees was not the only motivati…
28.02.2019
On-Site Round of “I Am a Professional” Competition: Participants Share
…eparation. It was also unusual that the competition presented us with some extra-specialized tasks, for example, there were some regarding the systems for storing hydrometeorological data in the format of NetCDF and GRIB. This, in my opinion, was too narrow of a problem. ITMO University students had an advantage here, because they encounter these topics in their s…
27.02.2019
Head of Greenhouse of Social Technologies on Making the Best of AI
…tions A developer can easily tell how mistakes are made. But that mistakes and their complexity and occurrence rate grow with such speed that human beings can no longer control them. A good example of that is when a program that forms a queue for emergency patients puts asthmatic patients with pneumonia behind those who only have pneumonia. According to statistics…
27.02.2019
Head of Greenhouse of Social Technologies on Making the Best of AI
…tions A developer can easily tell how mistakes are made. But that mistakes and their complexity and occurrence rate grow with such speed that human beings can no longer control them. A good example of that is when a program that forms a queue for emergency patients puts asthmatic patients with pneumonia behind those who only have pneumonia. According to statistics…
27.02.2019
Fighting Hibernation: Is It Springtime Yet?
…s time for hibernation to get to you. If you can spend a little more time walking instead of using public transport, do so: you’ll feel all the more alive when you take this stroll, while half-sleeping in a bus will just revert you to the state of drowsiness you fought so hard to wake up from. And even if there’s no choice but to take the subway, stand instead of sit…
26.02.2019
How Researchers Use Big Data to Fight HIV and Addiction
…be used to solve issues. There is also the National Institute of Health (NIH), who are interested in the scientific aspects and providing expertise. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also supports our research related to reducing overdose rates and developing painkiller prescription guidelines. A few years ago, we worked with the topic of balance…
25.02.2019
Helping Sleepwalkers, Fighting Excessive Snow and Ensuring Better Security on Campus: Best Projects by 2019 “It’s Your Call!” Participants
…artphone where a special app would respond by generating a signal leading the patient out of a deep sleep cycle. The winning team’s participants were granted the right to enroll in Master’s and PhD programs at ITMO University without additional entrance tests. Second place: biometric identification system Members of this team worked on a biometric identi…
25.02.2019
Yandex Director of Marketing Andrey Sebrant: We’re Living in the Age of Implementation
Forbes Science and Technology Editor on Communicating Research
… and so on. Nevertheless, many people, Yandex's co-founder Arkady Volozh included, stressed that they have always known Calvey as an honest man who never attempted to take control of and drain the companies he’s been working with. If Calvey didn't have such a reputation with investors, if journalists didn't know that for 25 years he's been investing in compani…
22.02.2019