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• Innovation Ecosystems Forum: Universities are to Turn into Corporations

  …ss players and market generators. Russian universities will have to make a lot of effort to integrate into this new reality". Innovations Ecosystems Forum Credit: social networks ArtemShadrin, Head of the Innovative Development Department of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia pinpointed the main priorities for innovative development in universitie…

  13.12.2016

• Scientists Produce Water Based Tunable Metasurfaces

  …properties by its rotation. "The incident wave is partially transmitted, partially reflected, partially absorbed. Redistributing water inside the cells, we change the balance between transmission, reflection and absorption. This determines where the metasurface can be applied: for polarizers, filters, or selective absorbers," notes Andrei Andryieuski, research fellow…

  13.12.2016

• Surviving Yemen, Surviving ITMO

  … were arranged that flew in. Dheya was on one of these from Malaysia, and landed in the South and drove the dangerous route to the North of the country. At a time of upheaval between the north and the south, this isn’t something people usually do. His memories of the time, sleeping and not knowing if you will wake up, the house shaking, windows breaking, sleeping in …

  12.12.2016

• From Akinator Genii to Machine Learning: A Science Slam Participant on Detection Technologies

  … technology would be great. And what of the foreign counterparts? There are many foreign counterparts for detecting and recognizing objects — those that use neural networks, anchor points and such. Intel, for instance, has released a 3D camera with sensors for recognizing hands and faces. Still, the camera is to be used for videogames, chats and the like, …

  12.12.2016

• ITMO has the Best Business Incubator in Russia

  …hools for IT projects continue to be run. Besides this, employees of the business incubator work with school kids, using the experience in the regions under the interregional network program. In 2016 alone, 63 ITMO students and 21 others went through the acceleration programs of the business incubator. ITMO’s incubator also helps its residents enter international mar…

  08.12.2016

• Video360Production Becomes Samsung Russia’s Official Partner

  …he quality of its videos is still not professional-level. Still, its users need access to services and hostings to upload their videos, and then share this content via social networks. So, with the launching of their hosting, Samsung started to search for video 360 content all over the world. As Video360Production has one of the biggest portfolios in Russia, the comp…

  07.12.2016

• How to Improve the Quality of Higher Education?

  …d on what is really important for those who study at a modern university. Among their main values are freedom of choosing disciplines, practice-oriented programs and contacts between professors and graduates. Maria Stepanova, head of ITMO’s Department for Quality Management of Education, talked about how ITMO contributes to its educational system. According to the s…

  06.12.2016

• "Searching for Lost Kitties": ITMO student Develops an App for Finding Lost Pets

  … now, we work with groups dedicated to lost pets, in order to create a database of posts. Maxim Averin How does the prototype work? Everyone knows that a neural network is some algorithm that can be "taught". You put in a condition, that the image features a cat or a dog. With time, the network learns to make decisions ind…

  06.12.2016

• Ivan Zasursky: Inaccessible Knowledge Divides Society

  …om effective education. What to do to avoid going crazy? Vernadsky and Sakharov were right — knowledge has to be accessible. Firstly, it will solve issues related to the gap between social classes. Secondly, if communication is too fast, it would be better to focus on information that gives food for thought. It helps to fight with inequality. Just think of Lev Tolst…

  05.12.2016

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …the largest movable land-based structure ever built and is supposed to secure the unit for at least 100 years. A single atom meets a single photon… Mapping the interaction between those two may inform design of quantum devices. "The photon knocks the atom into an excited state. To build reliable devices, scientists will need to control the interaction," said the t…

  04.12.2016