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• When VR met AR: ITMO University Students Created a SMARRt Robot with Lots of Potential

  …SMARR (smart manufacturer augmented reality robot) is a mobile robotic platform for facilitating remote presence of humans. The robot’s defining feature is that it functions on a combination of VR and AR technologies. Users can control the system with virtual reality glasses Oculus Rift. The video stream that comes from the fitted-in camera is enhanced with augmented…

  13.11.2018

• Do Smart Traffic Lights Dream of Self-Driving Cars? Traffic Expert Nil Podozerov Thinks So

  …tempted to find an optimal definition of what makes a traffic light smart, and I’ll explain it on the example of our peripheral traffic light controller ‘SPEKTR-2’. Active directional control in place of phases What we are most accustomed to in Russia is a phase-based traffic light control model, which implies that there is a sequential flow of states (traf…

  12.11.2018

• Neural Network-Generated Illustrations and Food Delivery App for the Visually Impaired: Teens in Tech School at ITMO

  …n science and business. “Technological entrepreneurs don’t just earn money; they understand the way the system works. That’s what we try to teach our students: how the market functions, how to present your project, how to make a business model. It’s not only technical skills and theoretical knowledge what matters; we want our participants to understand that they…

  12.11.2018

• Pick a Dream Apartment Like a Russian

  … have to use the shower according to a schedule. Many of these places, however, have been converted back to beautiful and expensive single-family apartments with giant windows and functional fireplaces. Some have been divided into smaller, well-upgraded downtown gems. But as the city spreads, you’re more likely to find yourself in a 15-story beehive of a house tha…

  12.11.2018

• Kunstkamera: Russia’s Bizarre First Museum

  …y after is a single room at the museum’s far end, the one which gives the place its most commonly used name: the Kunstkamera. This small chamber hosts the museum’s very first collection: items brought by Peter the First from his journeys to Europe. This Cabinet of Curiosities (which was the common name for such places) displays exhibits most startling and grotesqu…

  09.11.2018

• ITMO Scientists Win Scopus Award Russia 2018

  …s a result of a collaboration between Dmitry Gets, Eduard Danilovsky, Arthur Ishteev, my team and the staff of MISIS University, we have been able to create the world’s first dual functional devices. It turns out that solar panels have the capacity to transform such devices into light diodes. Perovskites can enable such functions, and t…

  09.11.2018

• Go with the Flow, Ask Questions, and Shoot for the Stars: Lessons from a Gamedev Meetup

  … to help young teams master the technology and connect with like-minded people from other studios. In the future, we will continue with our initiative and add in new formats of interaction like round-tables and project presentations. Andrey Karsakov, Head of the education program ‘Game Development Technologies’ The exchange of experience and expertise that happ…

  09.11.2018

• Grant Applications No Longer a Headache: Potanin Scholarship Lifehacks from Successful Contestants

  …erienced grantees say that you’re most successful when submitting a project that already has some tangible developments like a sketch, a detailed plan, or a prototype to give the selection committee a guarantee that the project will be a 100 % brought to fruition. Apart from new ideas, be sure to keep record of the projects you completed to then mention them in your …

  08.11.2018

• Yandex Product Manager Anna Lopatukhina: on Scrum, Agile and Trying New Things

  …nagement styles differed in details, but they all had some principles in common, which they dubbed Agile. These principles were expressed in their manifesto: individuals and interactions over processes and tools; working software over comprehensive documentation; customer collaboration over contract negotiation; responding to change over following a plan. W…

  08.11.2018

• New Magnetically Controlled Thrombolytic Successfully Passed Preclinical Testing

  …erged as a treatment method about 40 years ago, so far it has failed to become widespread because of the side effects that occur during its systemic use. To avoid these effects, the action of a trombolytic should be localized, meaning that the drug must be delivered right to the clot. To do this, scientists use magnetic nanoparticles. Researchers at ITMO Universit…

  08.11.2018