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• ITMO Student Joins Research at XFEL

  …What will you do at XFEL? I will be working at the DESY science center, where XFEL's tunnel begins. Sergei Molodtsov, my science advisor from Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, works both at DESY and ITMO University; when I arrive in Germany, I'll be working in his team. The time of working with XFEL is very in-demand, yet…

  12.09.2017

• How to Make the Perfect User Interface

  …tional programs there include not only subjects related to programming and graphic design, but also a basic set of psychology-related subjects. Such a combination of technical sciences and humanities helps form well-rounded specialists. “I believe that an interface designer should be able to think in terms of tasks: whatever you’re developing, first and foremost…

  11.09.2017

• RACIRI-2017 Summer School in Sweden

  …nstitute (IRI), a joint initiative between Russia, Sweden and Germany. The three countries are trying to pave the way  in using the best X-rays and neutron sources in material science.   Participants of the 5th International Summer School RACIRI-2017. Source: raciri.org The school is designed for students in their final years of university, postgraduates, and…

  11.09.2017

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• ITMO Fellowship Stories: Look for a Team

  …or at the Institute of Information Business of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and at ITMO has joined the team at the “International Laboratory of Information Science and Semantic Technologies”. Austria His main field of research while at ITMO University is “knowledge extraction from natural language”. He explains that most human knowledge ex…

  08.09.2017

• ITMO Scientists Help Link Alzheimer’s to Lack of Energy in Immune Cells

  …d cells, beta amyloids, damaged myelin and other substances. Still, it was not fully understood how exactly that effect is produced. Through experimentation with lab mice, the scientists discovered that the lack of or mutation of TREM2 proteins causes autophagy in microglia cells, meaning that the cells begin to “consume” themselves due to a lack of nutrition. This c…

  08.09.2017

• Robot Economics: How Industry 4.0 Will Change Our Life

  …mans and each other, new social and economic issues will arise. ITMO.NEWS has discussed this with Alexander Kapitonov, an assistant researcher at ITMO’s Department of Computer Science and Control Systems, who, too, was present as a speaker at Robonomics-2017. How it will work The basic feature of robot economics is the making of “smart” contracts between robots…

  07.09.2017

• Developers Present Projects at Girls4Tech Hackathon

  …rse of the two-day long hackathon. The bare minimum for the project was the creation of a useful tool for young people who want to hone their skills in the field of natural sciences and mathematics, likely as a preparation for their application to a technical university. “We decided that the important thing was that we spoke the same language as the user, tha…

  07.09.2017

• Researchers use Instagram to Help Tourists See Cities from a Local's Perspective

  …sia. In most cases, people post photos either because it’s the first time they visited a place or, on the contrary, because they go there often. Staff at ITMO University’s eScience Research Institute found a way to distinguish between Instagram users living in St. Petersburg and visiting tourists based on how they use social media. As such, the programmers discove…

  06.09.2017

• E-Governance: International Conference Just Ended at ITMO U

  …ss these issues and problems. There were a number of international guests at the conference who presented their work in the field of e-governance and e-participation. A scientist from Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Slim Turki, talked about how open data ecosystems are stimulated. Scie

  06.09.2017