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• Unity Day, or Who Stole the “Soviet Christmas”?

  …sidered the main holiday in the Soviet world. For comparison, the New Year was officially introduced as a holiday only in 1935. In a sense, it could be called the Soviet Christmas, as people commemorated the event they believed to be the birth of a new world they aspired to create. Though the modern attitude towards the events that took place is ambiguous at the very…

  31.10.2017

• ITMO Students Develop Smart Footwear for People with DIsabilities

  …lar shoes. At the hackathon, we had the chance to get advice from representatives of the industry, and they told us it’s quite possible. At industrial scale, when products are mass-produced, the technologies used will pay off. We’ve also consulted an industrial designer on the materials that are most cheap and functional. We want our footwear to be OK for wearing fro…

  31.10.2017

• RoboFinist Festival: Teaching Robotics to Kids

  … next-gen 3D pens, use a 3D scanner or meet a robotic Sorting Hat from the “Harry Potter” series. In the VR/AR area, visitors took part in a space-themed quest developed by Master’s students from the Department of Engineering and Computer Graphics. ITMO’s Museum of Optics demonstrated the work of leap-motion technology that allows players to use their hands and fi…

  30.10.2017

• Technophobes And Fear of New Technology

  …societies are less exposed to technophobia: people in such societies are ready to experiment more, even if that contradicts with common sense. In addition to that, in more “masculine” societies, people have higher expectations of new technologies because masculinity promotes an orientation towards achievements and ensures victory in …

  30.10.2017

• ITMO Codes Its Way to Top of Academic Excellence Project 5-100

  …ity’s keynote speaker; head of ITMO’s School of Photonics Vladislav Bougrov; Evgeny Pidko, professor at the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology; and Daria Yakovleva, Master’s degree student at the Computer Technologies Department and winner of Google Code Jam for Women. ITMO University's delegation  The time that has passed since the previous sessio…

  28.10.2017

• Seldon the Robot's Rise to Fame

• Up in the Air: Are Flying Taxis the Future of Mass Transit?

  …ol Systems, has commented on several of these issues. Issue 1: Vertical take-off and landing This one shouldn’t really be a challenge. What matters is that the center of mass is located below the prop’s plane to reduce the chance of tipping over. Issue 2: Prop noise Special air lanes should be outlined for such vehicles; there is no noise if they’re up hi…

  26.10.2017

• ITMO University Creates First Virtual Museum of Russian Architecture

  …le including some modern construction solutions. In his work at the Feodorovsky Settlement, he used modern (at the time) technology and materials. For example, the traditional masonry vaulting was replaced with concrete. In the Refectory Hall, frescos on the walls and ceiling also represent the traditional Russian style. New Testament images are combined with element…

  25.10.2017

• Science Film for the Modern Viewer

  …nexplored regions of our country is interesting, too. I would watch everything about the things that haven’t been explored – be it ecology or physics. Can such films appeal to mass audiences? I don’t know. I don’t think this generation is particularly interested in scientific content. Sergey Sushinskiy, Master’s student, “Science Com…

  23.10.2017

• 5 Science News Now

  …echniques, they developed a method of extracting a rare Higgs boson signal from copious noise data. Higgs is the particle that was predicted to imbue elementary particles with mass and was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. The new quantum machine learning method is found to perform well even with small datasets, unlike the standard counterparts. Fle…

  23.10.2017