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Genome Editing Will Help Cure HIV
ITMO University Staff Win Government Award for Translational IT
…es at the University we are engaged in, for example modeling the movement of traffic flows and people during peak hours. This allows us to calculate the optimal loading for certain transport hubs of the city and to make an effective route map. ICT Excellence is aimed at training specialists for such tasks as described, but also offers a number of methods for recruit…
18.01.2017
Artificial Intelligence: How to Regulate Human-Machine Interaction?
…V series was produced by Netflix company, which used its databases with information about preferences of audience. Using data about favorite actors and directors as well as certain time when people watch movies of a particular genre, the specialists predicted how a perfect movie has to look like and then shot House of Cards. As of now, the series has the highest rati…
17.01.2017
ITMO’s Researchers for Nature: How Does New Ultra-Compact Laser Work?
…it stays in the hole. In the same way, an elementary particle can "fall" into a potential hole, which is an area of space. To escape from the area a particle has to reach a certain level of kinetic energy. If it is not enough the particle will fluctuate in this hole or stay in a bound state. In 1929 John von Neumann and Paul Wigner described necessary conditions f…
17.01.2017
Studying From the Comfort of Your Own Couch
…nd so shocking. Within just a few years, online education has conquered the market and become both a source of professional development and at the same time, intellectual entertainment. They say that online education, in the form that we have become used to, was created at Stanford University. Then, professors started to post recordings of their most popular lectu…
13.01.2017
A Guide for Energy Saving: How to Make It Safer and Cheaper
…e top — this served as a cathode. Another side was covered with a conductive polymer, which became an anode. Then they folded it and added several drops of dirty water that contained bacteria — the liquid served as an electrolyte. The cellular respiration provoked energy production. Now several million batteries are required to switch on a 40 watt light bulb. Howe…
13.01.2017
ITMO University Joins the Horizon 2020 to Develop MRI
…ures with the results of modeling. If these results correlate, the next step will be an experiment in the scanner. First of all the researchers will use "phantoms," i.e. containers with a special liquid. The peculiarities of this objects are similar to ones of living tissues. "Before applying this technology in medicine, one has to think about the potential harm…
12.01.2017
Spend Your Leisure Time with Kickcity
…just information platforms on which one can read about events and make a decision. They don’t take into account two things. First of all, people want to find something in a certain location and do that very fast, as they are looking on the same day they want to go somewhere. Secondly, humans are social animals. Before visiting an event they want to know who else plan…
12.01.2017
The Art&Science Cluster Opens Its Doors
…our lives. Nowadays the Institute develops several top-priority areas: The "New Technologies for Children" project aims to create new "environments" that help children obtain new information and turn it into knowledge. The "Navigation" project assists to develop and implement guide systems for complicated social and physical environments taking into account …
09.01.2017
Winter Sports in Saint Petersburg
…ugh an opening in ice on a frozen body of water, and is about patience and … love of fishing. As strange as it may seem, there are many fans of this activity, who find it entertaining, even addictive — so who knows, maybe you’ll become one of them. Still, you should bear in mind that ice fishing can be considerably dangerous (you may fall through the ice into freezin…
06.01.2017