Search results for «CTIo» 5410 results

• Digital Identity: Current Trends and Future Prospects

  …t based on just that data. That’s the near-human I’m talking about. Even if we know everything about ourselves, that’s still only passive data. You need three elements to create a functioning individual: first, there’s data as an analog of our memory. We use memory to extract information, adapt it to the current situation, and use it. From a mathematical point of vie…

  05.08.2019

• ITMO University Scientists Present Record Amount of Works at the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference in Prague

  …l evolution: as in nature, in evolutionary algorithms populations made up of a multitude of species develop over the course of several generations, subject to the laws of natural selection based on the principle of the survival of the fittest as formulated by Charles Darwin.  Their applications  Evolutionary algorithms are used to solve a wide spectrum of probl…

  05.08.2019

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Sevkabel Port

  …ed electrical cables are well evident in the industrial architecture – some inspiring in its authenticity and some clearly in need of restoration. After all, most of it is still a functioning plant that churned out some 49,000 km of high-voltage cable last year. Sprawling murals, a wooden promenade, and splashes of color in design elements and art installations add m…

  02.08.2019

• Recognize Me If You Can: Can Facial Recognition Systems Really Tell How We Feel?

  …sit to the store and if not, contact them in order to solve any arising issues. The company’s representatives note that a client’s biometrical data can be checked against their transactions, which allows the company to detect a change in a customer’s buying patterns that results from their discontent. Other fields. In March 2019, the Shenzhen Metro launched a paym…

  02.08.2019

• Crystals and Peculiar Stars: Final Day of Mendeleev 150 at ITMO

  …ganov, a Russian crystallographer, mineralogist, chemist, and professor of the Russian Academy of Science, known for his research on computational discovery of new materials and prediction of crystal structures. Until the mid-00s, the scientific community believed that crystal structures were fundamentally unpredictable. The opinion has changed since, and the USPE…

  01.08.2019

• ITMO University Presents Its 2018 Annual Report

  … annual report to serve as your guide into the world of a university that is truly a part of St. Petersburg,” say the report’s authors. This year’s Annual Report is split into sections focused on the key areas of interest for the University: Strategic development: our development strategy up to 2027 and our placement in academic rankings; Research: the U…

  31.07.2019

• Baikal: Fighting for the Future of World’s Deepest Lake

  …he coasts of the Black and Azov seas, discovering 13,000 plastic fragments with a total weight of nearly half a ton. In 2019, the attention of the public was brought to the construction of a bottling plant near the village of Kultuk in Irkutsk Oblast. The construction began in January 2019 and, according to Irkutsk Oblast’s deputy mi…

  31.07.2019

• Getting to Know Russian Literature: Soviet Sci-Fi, Part 1

  …e who were part of it is a worthwhile experience. In this article, we'll examine the earliest examples of Soviet sci-fi literature. In the beginning of the 20th century, science fiction was still a novel genre in Russia, and the authors who gave it a go were few and very different. For this reason, their works deal with a wide range of topics, stand apart from eac…

  30.07.2019

• Summer Edition of Webometrics 2019: ITMO University in Top-5 Russian Universities

  …h its position increasing by 102 points. It has to be noted that the indicator’s assessment of Russian universities wasn’t subject to any noticeable change as the period for the collection of data had only increased to one year (2013-2017). The lowering of ITMO’s Visibility indicator, which measures the volume of external links leading to the university’s websites…

  30.07.2019

• MIT Professor Marin Soljacic: AI Will Play a Large Role in the Future of Research

  …ve that it is truly important to be familiar not only with your own field but with one or two others as well. I’ve found that there are always opportunities to be found at the intersection of any two sciences. It never hurts to know about things outside of your area of expertise. There are reasons to believe that, with time, artificial intelligence will begin to p…

  30.07.2019