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• Dmitry Volkov vs. Tatyana Chernigovskaya: Superintelligence and Living Machines

  …at in fact we are these machines. Tatyana Chernigovskaya is a Professor of St. Petersburg State University, Head of the Department of the Problems of Convergence in Natural Sciences and Humanities, Head of the Laboratory of Cognitive Studies with a PhD in Biology, the most famous Russian scientist involved in the popularization of

  26.03.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  … offer a more cost-efficient and sustainable solution to the global data storage problem while enabling the critical pivot from Big Data to Long Data, opening up new realms of scientific discovery. Fabric lights a lamp. Researchers have developed a fabric that converts kinetic energy into electric power. The greater the load applied to the textile and the wetter i…

  26.03.2018

• ITMO Hosts AI Academy Open Lessons

  …nk’s Technology and Data Academy. For instance, Ekaterina Bykova and Olga Petrova, high school students from Kirishi, started programming in Python back at their Computer Science classes in school. As of now, the girls already do web design, and consider several professions in the field of information technologies for their future careers. “We learned a…

  23.03.2018

• Russian and Finnish Students Learn About Business Together with FIRST+

  …ity – the Department of Financial Management and Audit and the Department of Industrial Ecology and Safety – won a FIRST+ grant together with the Tampere University of Applied Science (TAMK). As Irina Sergeeva, head of the Department of Financial Management and Audit, noted, this was the result of a successful partnership that began four years ago. “Finland’s ed…

  22.03.2018

• IT-evening for High Schoolers: Sports Programming, Evolutionary Algorithms and Genome Sequencing

  …nal research that aimed to define the sequence of nucleotides that constitute human genome, and to identify the 20-25 thousand human genes (the project was closed in 2003 when scientists officially announced that they’ve reached their goal). The Moore's law states that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years; in other wor…

  21.03.2018

• ITMO PhD Student on Doing Medical Modeling at University of Sheffield

  …it can be used to design a more effective stent construction that will reduce the amount of complications. The same research is being carried out by specialists of the eScience Research Institute at ITMO University, who in collaboration with their colleagues from Amsterdam University in the Netherlands and University of Sheffield in the UK have been working ov…

  20.03.2018

• Stephen Hawking: Life in Books

  …es Hawking discusses black hole thermodynamics, special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics. General Theory of Relativity is a collective monograph by famous scientists from the USSR, the USA and the UK, while Geometric Ideas in Physics provides new approaches to quantum field theory. These essays didn’t become popular, but he didn’t intend them to …

  19.03.2018

• Physicists Create Crystal Lattice from Polaritons

  …ey show no energy-velocity relation at all. From a formal standpoint, particles in flat bands have infinite effective mass. Flat bands are of great interest for fundamental science. They are used to study superconductors, ferromagnets and other quantum phases in electrons. However, quantum phases can also be observed in light elementary particles – photons. This r…

  19.03.2018

• ITMO University Professor Awarded for Mentoring

  …a by Scartel) software, the programming language Kotlin (the second official programming language for Android applications) and cryptocurrency Cardan’s software. Thanks to the scientific school, ITMO University ranked 56th in the Times Higher Education ranking in the field of "Computer Science" in 2016 and 76th in 2017. Professor…

  16.03.2018

• Scientists Invent Method of Catching Bacteria with ‘Photonic Hook’

  … existence of a curved electromagnetic ray was experimentally confirmed. Dubbed the “Airy beam” and, up until now, was considered a singular example of a curved ray. Recently, scientists from ITMO University, along with their colleagues from Tomsk State University, the University of Central Florida, the University of Ben-Gurion and the University of Bangor, have disc…

  16.03.2018