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• EVA Saint-Petersburg: New Applications Of VR/AR Technologies

  …ltural heritage, tourism and traveling, digital theaters, museum management and the like. VR in a museum environment Adding multimedia technologies to the communication between a visitor and the exhibit is becoming all the more widespread. According to specialists, it is convenient and totally safe for the exhibits. A good example of that is the use of holograp…

  29.06.2017

• Alexander Voiskynsky: Psychologist On Informatization

  …xisting ones? How to compare research results, then? Surely, it's possible - but that's still not entirely correct. There's also a lot of research on communication, social networks, for instance. It's really interesting to students, and the field gradually develops. A lot has been written about the peculiarities and principles of communication via social n

  28.06.2017

• Second Day of Geek Picnic: Evolution, Rats and Superstition

  …“apophenia” (greek for “make appear, display”), a term coined by German psychiatrist Klaus Conrad to describe a condition in which a patient perceives connections and meaning between unrelated objects. Swiss psychologist Peter Brugger introduced the term to the English language in 2001. He explains apophenia as a result of imperfection in human consciences, a “tenden…

  26.06.2017

• Geek Picnic-2017: Richard Dawkins, Cyborgs, VR and Psychological Experiments

  …me animals had thicker fur during certain periods of time, but such changes are slow, as climate change is different from the threat presented by a predator. The relationship between lions and antelopes is different from the interrelations between animals and weather. The lion wins if the antelope dies. At the same time, if the antelope…

  25.06.2017

• What is EMI? Tips and Tools

  …hey could do the same in their own language. It also needs to be noted that course preparation takes much longer for both parties but it is overall beneficial. Differences between EMI and teaching in L1 When the program is being taught in the students’ and the teacher’s native tongue, the latter is more confident while the former can easily take notes and r…

  23.06.2017

• International Team Proposes New 3D Topological Insulator Design

  …k.  The use of 3D topological insulators will also simplify the creation of sending and receiving systems that make use of antennas. Usually, one can't have any antennas between the sender and the receiver of electromagnetic signals, as they would disturb the signal. In 3D systems, on the other hand, the antennas can be placed anywhere, and there will be no dist…

  23.06.2017

• ITMO University Launches The New Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics Laboratory

  …in the beginning of June where the laboratory was first presented,  Boris Galkin, Head of Russia's TEN FLECS Center for Organic Electronics, made a report on bridging the gap between R&D projects and mass production in the field of thin-film electronics prototyping and low-batch production. "We believe that the laboratory at ITMO University is the first good exa…

  22.06.2017

• New Femto-Camera with Quadrillion Fractions of a Second Resolution

  …ed with increasing resolution capability of a system at the stage of recording holograms. “Technically, we can scale the images dozens of times, setting the magnifying system between the object and the camera. Not only does this enhance resolution, the measurement accuracy grows, too, since the number of interference bands does not change while they visually thin in …

  22.06.2017

• ITMO Students in Singapore: How to Please Customers by Analyzing Their Social Media

  …of work involves figuring out someone’s personality and behavior patterns. Credit: g1.dcdn.lt Profiling algorithm The algorithm works with sets of data that social network users voluntarily post on the internet, such as geotags, public posts, personal bios, photos and captions. All this information is translated into parameter sets that are then processed …

  21.06.2017

• Art&Science: Optical Devices In Fine Arts And Design's Role In Evolution

  …esentation. What’s more, such lenses already existed at that time. Charles Falco "My laboratory is on the 10th floor, and there's a building nearby. If we draw a line between these two buildings, we'll get the convergence point.  It is obvious that Jan van Eyck used such methods as well," shares Charles Falco. What's more, Jan van Eyck also used projecti…

  21.06.2017