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• VR/AR Association & ITMO University Spring Kickoff: Trends and Philosophy of Virtual Reality

  …the tip of the iceberg; they are exciting, beautiful, fascinating, which is why they’re mainstream; but there is a foundation that is based on philosophy, art, sociology, culturology, etc. Had it not existed, the technologies wouldn’t either. The concept of “virtual” was a topic of discussion in Ancient Greece, among the likes of Plato and Aristotle. Without that fou…

  05.04.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 7-8

  …ntirely using the director’s iPhone 7. As for theatre, this Sunday you can see a National Theatre Live screening of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role.…

  04.04.2018

• ITMO University Revamps its Master’s Program in Optoelectronics

  …Systems’ development department and its measuring laboratory will also participate in the program and will be responsible for the development of disciplines in the field of metrology.  How the program will be structured The main area of participation for business partners is the development of the professional program module: company representatives fully p…

  04.04.2018

• Russian Easter: a Feast of Cheer

  …ligatory for everyone this day (even for the members of the royal family, who used to kiss all their court and servants on this day). Some festive youngsters were practicing strolling streets on the Easter day and greeting every pretty girl with “Christ has risen!” exclamation and owing her to kiss them three times.  Of course,these days no one will force you to k…

  03.04.2018

• Video Games vs. MBAs: How Gaming Makes You a Better Employee

  …to win. If you want to lead a team, you have to explain your point of view to a group of strangers. So you can acquire great leadership skills”, explained Miroslava Valkevich. Role-playing games such as World of Warcraft are especially efficient, added Ms. Valkevich. This is confirmed by other research. A new study by researchers at Missouri S&T found that World…

  03.04.2018

• Startup Pallium Promises Smarter AI

  …rtificial intelligence. How exactly? If you develop algorithms (in this case, agents), you create the agent yourself and write a smart contract for it. A smart contract controls how the agent interacts with its environment, as well as how it changes its internal decision-making system. This way if the incoming data structure is specified in the contract, the agent…

  30.03.2018

• Dean of Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics Anton Pyrkin Named “Professor of the Year”

  …hat IT is guaranteed to always have a market, that there would be room to grow, assert yourself and make a career. I applied to the Faculty of Computer Technologies and Control; I didn’t really know what the word “control” meant, but I liked the sound of it. Only later did I realize how many layers there were to it. Still, I chose it…

  30.03.2018

• Russian, German and French Scientists to Collaborate on Nanowhisker Research at European XFEL

  …es are built on a territory of 15 hectares. XFEL's grand opening ceremony marked the launch of the first two experiments in which X-ray free-electron lasers will play a key role. With the first experiment scientists have shown how it is possible to study fast reactions, particularly the interaction of certain molecules with an aqueous medium. The second experiment…

  28.03.2018

• ITMO Scientists Develop Topological Defect Detection Method

  …ariants lie at the core of many important observable properties of matter. They are incorporated in the creation of new, unusual materials, which are used, for example, to control light propagation in optical systems. To detect topologically non-trivial structures, scientists usually scan the propagation of an object’s near-field. In other words, they monitor an o…

  28.03.2018

• Telegram Messenger: a Short Guide to the Hit Russian App

  …k and as demand for the currency increases. The idea is to create a new virtual world with a wide range of digital and physical goods being bought and sold, but with no controlling institution in the middle selling your data and tracking your every move across the web. "Telegram users are really at the epicenter of the whole crypto boom," Ryan Gilbert, a partne…

  27.03.2018