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• ITMO Graduate on Three Failures and One Victory

  … studies. He was working at the Radario company for two years but then he realized that he needs to do something more than coding. Back then he saw an announcement in social networks titled with something like "Tired of working for someone? Want to start your own business?" It was an ad of ITMO’s SumIT startup school. The startuper came to the SumIT with an "aggreg…

  22.12.2016

• From White Nights to Black Days: Surviving the Deep, Dark Winter in St. Petersburg

  … the most spectacular and dazzling to illuminate the city’s dark, crepuscular season will be the Light Show on Palace Square, due to take place every evening from 7pm to 11pm between December the 25th and the 30th. Gigantic projectors are set to transform the stunning facades of the Winter Palace and General Staff Building into a neo-classical canvas for digitally en…

  21.12.2016

• ITMO Develops a New Modular Platform for Robot Construction

  …on a 3D printer at ITMO University. All of the software was developed at ITMO University, as well. For stabilizing the UAV, ITMO's developers used an artificial neural network-based regulator in addition to the commonly used PID-control, which is a technology rarely used by manufacturers. The applications for controlling the device were both iOS and Android-co…

  21.12.2016

• "Death and Life of Catalysts": Evgeny Pidko on Getting the ERC Grant and his Research Plans

  …dbreaking. These grants may well be the hardest to get. According to official statistics, the success rate of grant applications is only 14%. What's more, this is the rate between those who were already chosen among the many scientists there are. There are three types of grants ERC gives: ERC Starting Grants, ERC Consolidator Grants, And ERC Advanced Grant…

  20.12.2016

• Science Slam ITMO 2.0 Final

  …he signs of distress of the latter example, and Anton’s program has been designed to do just that. Such a technology could improve security as it can recognize the difference between a woman being attacked by a menacing stranger and a woman being embraced by her husband, in a dark alley. Read more about how he uses the Akinator genii app and Machine learning for this…

  20.12.2016

• "Art&Science: Art, Science, Museum": the New ITMO-Hermitage Collaboration Project

  … "Art&Science: Art, Science, Museum" is a collaborative project of the State Hermitage Museum and ITMO University in the field of Art&Science, which is about the interaction between art and science in the modern world and new inventions in artistic and museum practices. The project's participants — scientists, restoration artists and museum curators — speak of the m…

  19.12.2016

• Janush Holyst: "Emotions Are the Main Engines for Discussions in a Cyber Community."

• Science Slam Participant on Improving Nuclear Plant Operation

  …t the tube's surface and the surface of the thermocouple unit, you'll see that they are both rough-surfaced. So when you press them against each other, there's still air left between. Air has low thermal conductivity which is bad for the measurements, as it directly affects precision. Thus, we need thermal grease to remove the air bubbles", explains the scientist. …

  15.12.2016

• The Western High-Speed Diameter: More Roads Means More Traffic

  … or not. The expert concluded that such motorways encourage people to use private transport, as in the Downs-Thomson paradox. [the equilibrium speed of car traffic on a road network is determined by the average door-to-door speed of equivalent journeys taken by public transport — Ed.]. The influence of Western High-Speed Diameter on St. Petersburg’s transport n

  15.12.2016

• The First Results of the Massive Open Online Course on Science Communication

  …h its participants. Our students were wonderful — they interacted with the organizers and with each other. The project has become not only an educational platform, but also a networking area. I really appreciate this!" Furthermore, ITMO University has been developing open education projects for the last several years. Its courses are presented at such online platfo…

  14.12.2016