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• Seldon the Robot's Rise to Fame

  …ng eyes. It was designed and programmed by a team of school students at ITMO University, under the guidance of Igor Lositsky and Evgeny Zavarin from the Department of Computer Science and Control Systems. In total, the project involved six school students: Levon Pogosov, Andrew Lakomkin, Mikhail Volkov, Daniil Nechaev, Boris Frolikov, Gleb Zagarskiy, all students fro…

  27.10.2017

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

  …ral technical issues that hinder the development and adoption of VTOL technology into everyday life. Alexander Kapitonov, assistant researcher at ITMO’s Department of Computer Science and Control 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 …

  26.10.2017

• ITMO University Creates First Virtual Museum of Russian Architecture

  …y Hall to create a virtual reconstruction of the building’s vaulted ceiling that accurately recreate its complex geometry. In 2016, students from the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, led by Professor Alexander Krylov, created sketches of the ceiling paintings in various color combinations based on the black-and-white photo. The students’ 2D drawings were applie…

  25.10.2017

• Biocompatible Magnetic Photonic Crystals can be used both for Optics and Medicine

  …, there are some problems concerning the synthesis of MPC. This procedure requires sophisticated equipment, high temperature and pressure as well as highly toxic chemicals. Scientists from ITMO University along with their colleagues from Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University and N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center suggested an inexpensive and simple…

  25.10.2017

• Russia Platform Opens Way For Cooperation with Belgian Universities

  …aculty of Bioengineering, and the business community. For instance, the specialist for development of the Port of Ostend, Wim Stubbe, is interested in cooperation with the eScience Research Institute and Biochemistry cluster at ITMO University. In addition, the Belgian partners have expressed interest for joint initiatives in the field of entrepreneurship and inno…

  24.10.2017

• Scientists Form New Road Map for Photonics and Quantum Communications Development

  …ith computer technologies and biotechnology. There is more data every day, and traditional communication channels are nearing the limits of their capacity. The market needs scientists to develop solutions based on photonic technologies. One issue has to do with the integration of optical systems into various environments for the transmission, processing and storag…

  24.10.2017

• ITMO University Proposes New Approach To Storing Big Data

  … it: SQL and no-SQL databases (PostgreSQL and Cassandra, for instance), general-purpose data storages (HDFS) and data storages for specialized data (like SciDB that focuses on scientific data). Yet, so as to provide for sufficient flexibility and coverage, all of these solutions make use of similar interfaces and methods of storing information, with no regard to its …

  24.10.2017

• Optics-2017 Conference: Experts Discuss Relevant Technologies of Industrial Photonics

  … from the Optical Society of America (OSA), Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).Students and scientists discussed the relevant topics of such fields as physical optics and spectroscopy, laser physics and technology, photonics systems and devices, IT in photonics, biotechnical systems, …

  23.10.2017

• Science Film for the Modern Viewer

  …The International Science Film Festival “World of Knowledge” was first organized by the studio Lennauchfilm and the National Committee “Russia’s Intellectual Resources” in February of 2006. The festival includes an international competition, a non-competition program and a special program. Even in its first years, the festival had already attracted guests from more t…

  23.10.2017

• 5 Science News Now

  …Why still no contact with alien civilizations? Icy oceans on other plants might be to blame, according to Science. “Most extraterrestrial creatures are likely deep inside their home planets, in subsurface oceans crusted over in frozen water ice. The hypothesis could explain the lack of signals from other technologically advanced civilizations, especially if they thin…

  23.10.2017