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• Pop Goes the Bubble: A Quick Guide to Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and ICOs

  …ividual. How many keys can I use? As many as you’d like. One piece of advice for those dealing with Bitcoin is to generate new public and private keys for each single transaction. You could potentially have thousands of keys. In addition, no third party can find out whether a key belongs to you. How do people transfer Bitcoins? When you do a regular b…

  10.04.2019

• Exploring North Rhine-Westphalia: St. Pete Startuppers Pitch to German Companies

  …ex Materials”. It’s staff member Olga Timokhina presented a waste management system with IoT support for smart cities. In essence, it is a platform for automating separate waste collection. The project implies the deployment of intelligent refuse bins  that are fixed with special sensors throughout the city. These sensors collect data on how full the containers are, …

  10.04.2019

• Travel Tips: Pskov

  …ev and became one of the most influential women in Russian history. I think it’s fun when a woman can put a city on the map. During summer months you might even catch a battle in action. Ever felt like swinging a sword? Izborsk Situated about 30 kilometers southwest of Pskov, this town is even more ancient, dating back to the 7th century. You won’t find …

  09.04.2019

• Water-Spraying Parasols and Smart Traveling Apparel: Projects by Teens in Tech

  …ella in question looks just like a regular parasol, bar one special feature: a built-in water reservoir and a pump that delivers water to valves in charge of performing the spraying action. With one spritz taking up to 12 mL of water, the 300 mL reservoir has the capacity to provide a relatively long-lasting heat relief. The workings of the smart umbrella system are …

  09.04.2019

• University of Mexico’s Carlos Gershenson: Computers Are Telescopes With Which We Study Complex Systems

  …croscopic properties are the product of a process called immersion. The characteristics of immersion seem enigmatic to many, and that is because the information produced by the interaction of elements cannot be found in these elements. Imagine you have a childhood friend named Pasha. You know everything about him: his favorite food, favorite music, his habits. All…

  08.04.2019

• Programming Music with Sonic Pi: A How-To

  …onic Pi employs the same interdisciplinary approach to teaching programming, music and acoustics. Users don’t just only write the code, but also listen to the direct result of their actions and take on the role of a real software developer. The future of the software Sonic Pi’s author Sam Aaron left his workplace at the University of Cambridge to dedicate all h…

  08.04.2019

• Movie Fridays: Netflix’s New Stalker Drama You

  …ights on a customer, an aspiring young writer Beck (Elizabeth Lail). Just as anyone in our modern digital world would, Joe uses social media to learn more about the object of his affection, because, in his words, “a guy needs to protect himself”. Let’s face it, that’s what we all do, googling people to make sure they are safe; but it’s a whole different story with Jo…

  05.04.2019

• Professor Alessandra Bonoli on Ecodesign, Circular Economy and Life Cycle Thinking

  …in the development of ecodesign and product life cycle thinking. I am really happy that she could come to ITMO and deliver a course as part of the Industrial Ecology and Cleaner Production international educational program. I believe that it is only the beginning of a meaningful collaboration and friendship between ITMO and the University of Bologna. Olga Serg…

  05.04.2019

• ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering Launches a Projects Contest

  …g the applications will be a panel of judges made of researchers, methodologists and lecturers from ITMO University. They will be tasked with independent evaluation and objective selection of projects for their further implementation as part of the Faculty of Physics and Engineering’s educational programs and physics-based project initiatives at the Sirius educationa…

  04.04.2019

• CodeX Founder Petr Savchenko on the Team’s Next-Gen Software Editor.js: Block Editors Are the Future

  …along the lines of “move a picture by 1mm in Word @ cause a global cataclysm”. Just google “microsoft word meme”. Working with carriage returns, text wrapping, or fragment selection is not a trivial task, and we’ve had to tinker with it for quite a while. It was a valuable experience. Launching an open source project of this scale (it already has 24 repos a…

  04.04.2019