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• The First Results of the Massive Open Online Course on Science Communication

• IT-Breakthrough in St. Petersburg: from Machine Vision to Smart Feeders

  …y and appetite, as well as the amount of food the pet consumes. What's more, the project's authors want to develop electronic games for pets so they won't feel sad while their masters are away. The jury's members noted that the invention can be a success, but needs at least a prototype to work with. Also, they warned the startuppers of a possible problem they will ha…

  14.12.2016

• Surviving Yemen, Surviving ITMO

  …s. Dheya still has a few more years to go to complete his degree, and there’s no doubt his Russian will improve and his experience will get easier. He wants to pursue a Masters or PhD in nanotechnology somewhere in Europe or Canada. When all is said and done, he wants to go back to Yemen and says "I am going to serve my people who have given him an opportunity…

  12.12.2016

• From Akinator Genii to Machine Learning: A Science Slam Participant on Detection Technologies

• Hermitage’s Head Clocksmith on his Work, Laboratory and the Importance of Restoring Technological Marvels

  …irst of all, a clocksmith has to have good eyesight, spatial perception, and be patient. Also, he has to be clever with hands. Generally, one learns the profession from senior masters; as for universities, I can only name West Dean College that I graduated from in 2000. What about the number of clocksmiths, there are as many as necessary. Good clocksmiths work at …

  07.12.2016

• How to Improve the Quality of Higher Education?

  …to understand goals and plans of each other. ITMO’s students also made their presentations at the meetings. Sergei Belov and Elena Eremeeva who follow Bachelor’s programs and Master’s student Elizaveta Lutsenko, focused on what is really important for those who study at a modern university. Among their main values are freedom of choosing disciplines, practice-orient…

  06.12.2016

• ITMO.START — the Academic Festival for School Students at ITMO University

  …rols". ITMO.START Academic Festival There is also the "Youth Co-Working Center", where school kids can choose their future career by joining courses and participating in master classes in several subjects: the fundamentals of robotics, programming, photography and such. What's more, the children visit museums and learn about other research activities at ITMO Un…

  05.12.2016

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …e tag, more than 600 would-be astronauts have already signed up, including Hollywood actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Ashton Kutcher. Huge safety shield erected at Chernobyl. A massive radiation shield, dubbed New Safe Confinement, has been installed over the number four nuclear reactor in Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the catastrophic 1986 nuclear accident. The ste…

  04.12.2016

• Russian Scientists Develop New Metasurfaces for Deep UV-Imaging

  …demic University have developed a new method for nanostructures fabricatin, which is able to convert infrared light to deep ultraviolet. The structure is a film with a regular massive of nanolumps — metasurface. It is generated by radiating silicon film, whose thickness is 100 nanometers, with ultrashort or femtosecond laser pulses that form its relief. On the film s…

  02.12.2016

• The Ultimate Guide to the Russian Banya (Part 2)

  …ninskie Bani, reputedly the oldest in the city and the last to use traditional wood-burning stoves. For this leg, I was joined by friend and Banya Connoisseur, the artist Oleg Maslov, who is a Mytninskie regular and rates it among the city’s best. The entrance, again from the street of the same name, turned out to be rather unprepossessing — two-tone pastel bleakn…

  02.12.2016