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Grad Platforma: User-Driven City Events Aggregator
…d. The service’s concept takes after that of Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap: the changes made by one user immediately become visible to the others, with the system saving all revisions of an event to roll back from a potentially unfavorable one if needed. The moderation of content and the development of the system are also up to the user community to pursue. The users …
06.08.2019
Dine with a View in St. Petersburg
… rooftops of St. Petersburg, along with a good view of St. Isaac’s Cathedral can be seen from the spacious terrace of the recently opened Sky Wine Bar, just above the Palma Mansion of the Society of German Craftsmen. If you’re looking for a beautiful view on a hot day, this is a great spot. Make sure to pop by the photobooth for a memento of your visit! Bear in mind …
06.08.2019
Quizzing and Mythbusting: Medical Lab Initiative Comes to ITMO University
Taste Summer Like a Russian
…Kvas & Mors You’ll find these soft drinks just about on every menu as a local alternative to carbonated soft drinks. In its authentic version, Kvas is a lightly fermented rye drink that will leave you with a foamy mustache and a soft buzz. The grocery store brands are a completely non-alcoholic, slightly sweet drink that you can count as your daily serving of carb…
05.08.2019
Digital Identity: Current Trends and Future Prospects
…n of business processes, the propagation of data at speeds exceeding the speed at which humans can comprehend it, and more. Along with digital transformation comes a new profession: a specialist who can fish the right data from that stream. But is it possible to go even further and digitize that specialist? It’s likely. The digital near-human Truth be told, …
05.08.2019
ITMO University Scientists Present Record Amount of Works at the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference in Prague
…eral rule, multi-criteria evolutionary algorithms tend to be harder than those where only one value needs to be optimized. Today, most of these algorithms operate in multidimensional spaces where each criterion has its own coordinate axis. Thus, the fitness value of each solution corresponds to a number of points in a multidimensional s…
05.08.2019
Mendeleev 150: IUPAC’s Birthday and Invention of Periodic Law
…o Mendeleev, the first concept was much more important than the second. Eventually, Mendeleev finishes his work, sends it abroad and becomes famous. And then he makes a decision that becomes his life’s greatest tragedy. After discovering a law of nature, any other researcher would have continued doing two things: debating and learning about the patterns in a syste…
02.08.2019
Recognize Me If You Can: Can Facial Recognition Systems Really Tell How We Feel?
…ng the possibility of cheating to a minimum. Associated challenges According to a recent report by the USA's National Institute of Standards and Technology, the precision of facial recognition technologies in 2013-2018 has greatly increased in comparison with what it was in 2010-2013. In other words, most algorithms developed in 2018 are better than their m…
02.08.2019
Crystals and Peculiar Stars: Final Day of Mendeleev 150 at ITMO
…to. Seaborg’s actinide concept (a “family” of 14 radioactive chemical elements situated in the seventh period of the periodic table behind actinium) was the first major revision to the periodic table since its invention by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. The actinide concept made possible the discovery of new elements and was Glenn Seaborg’s proudest achievement. The…
01.08.2019
ITMO Students on Recent Start-Up Internship Program in China
…its participants work in groups in order to develop a prototype of an innovative product and found a virtual company for implementing their solutions. They are helped by professional entrepreneurs, who tell them about such things as conducting market research, and developing business models as well as the specifics of negotiating with investors. The program is co…
01.08.2019