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• Future Culture Lab: Artists and Scientists Present Their Vision of Tomorrow

  …Future Culture Lab is a part of the Art&Science movement. Works in this new field of art use modern technology to create new aesthetic images and create a manifesto of the issues of today and tomorrow. Societal concerns have always been reflected in the works of artists, writers, and musicians. And sometimes, their predictions come true, like the prototypical “laser”…

  30.05.2018

• English at ITMO: From ABC to ESP

  …nd online tools to work with students and a had lot of positive feelings in practical and theoretical classes,” shared Alena Dzhumagulova, lecturer of the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities. Every year, the Foreign Language Training Center is becoming more and more adept at providing solutions for the English language needs of the university. …

  29.05.2018

• Dissolving Borders: teamLab’s Founder on Digital Art

  …uld intercross and form patterns. Such interactions don’t necessarily imply using light. In our installation Floating Flowers Garden for the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, we had real orchids hanging down from the ceiling. People entered the room, and wherever they walked, the orchids would rise above them , thus forming a kind of…

  29.05.2018

• Speech Information Technology Programs at ITMO University

  …size human voice. This includes imitating speech, analyzing context, text-to-speech conversion, and all kinds of tasks associated with voice biometrics. This field of computer science is considered amongst the most difficult ones, as it stands at the intersection of several complex disciplines: linguistics, mathematics, and programming. Nevertheless, speech systems a…

  29.05.2018

• Michio Kaku on Digital Future: Should We Fear Robots?

  …his technology has already been used to cure a few patients. Cancer is like that: perhaps you only have a few cells of it, and they will grow into a tumor in ten years. Today, scientists are developing technology to help us find a single cancer cell among a billion of healthy ones. In the future, you may go to the bathroom and special sensors will use your biological…

  28.05.2018

• Researchers Use Silicon Nanoparticles For Bioimaging and Drug Delivery

  …dely used in biological and medical research due to their high sensitivity and low toxicity. Nanoparticles used for drug delivery are often coated with such dyes. This enables scientists to track their path in the intracellular space. The intensity of the luminescent signal depends on the particle material and the distance between the dye and the particle’s surface. …

  28.05.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …Amazon’s Alexa becomes personal assistant to software engineers. UBC computer scientists have turned Amazon Alexa into a tool for software engineers, tasking the virtual assistant to take care of mundane programming tasks, helping increase productivity and speed up workflow. A novel way to grow elastic diamonds. UNIST has unveiled that brittle diamonds can be bent…

  28.05.2018

• ITMO University Strengthens Partnerships with Swiss Universities

  …erest in establishing further partnerships between ITMO and Swiss universities. “ITMO University would like to collaborate with each partner university in a wide range of scientific fields. Today, our partnership with ETH Zürich revolves around science and research; we also conduct joint training courses in programming, but there i…

  25.05.2018

• New Blockchain-Based System Will Control Quality of Medical and Chemical Products

  …stored in proper conditions. However, in real life, consumers have none of these guarantees, says Alexandr Vinogradov, head of ITMO University’s Biochemistry Cluster. “As scientists who, in addition to fundamental research, also work on applied pharmaceutical research and chemical engineering, we often encounter a particular issue. Chemists create new medical pr…

  25.05.2018

• St. Petersburg International Economic Forum: Hi-Tech in IT, Medicine and Economics

  …ment and disease prevention. These two trends are likely to change the very understanding of medicine; today’s medicine is reactive, i.e. an issue emerges and then doctors and scientists react to it. However, a shift towards preventative medicine is expected. “If we don’t change anything about preventative medicine, by 2050 there’ll be nearly a billion diabetics…

  24.05.2018