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• Digitally Immortalized: How the Solovetsky Monastery is Finding a New Life in Virtual Reality

  … so closely ties the academic and the technological. For this reason the team working on the Solovetsky monastery project today is made up of experts in arts and non-technical sciences (history, archaeology, culturology, etc.), as well as engineers whose goal is to represent historical data in a digital form. The advantage of this alliance is that their activities ar…

  30.05.2017

• Science Fest: Growth of VR, Functional Food and Why Humanity Will Always Return to Earth

  …Science Fest The festival’s motto is “It’s fashionable to be smart!”. The event drew programmers, roboteers, gamers, geeks and fans of popular science. Throughout the two days more than 20 speakers held lectures, the first hackathon in visual art took place, and more than 100 participants showcased their projects and ideas in five ca…

  29.05.2017

• Campus Festival: How to Learn About Science at a Bar

  …sities – ITMO University, European University and St. Petersburg Polytechnic University – and organized by “Paper Media” since 2015. Its main intention is to educate people on science in an easily accessible format outside of university walls. As part of the festival, any place can become a platform where anyone can acquire new knowledge and meet interesting people. …

  29.05.2017

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• Foresight Fleet 2017: St. Petersburg Is To Become A Global Construction Bureau

  …'s future image in the era of digital transformation, facilitated the dialog between more than 200 executives, entrepreneurs, private and governmental companies, universities, scientists and officials, brought together 22 projects and up to 50 new initiatives," comments Vyacheslav Traktorenko, Foresight Fleet's coordinator in St. Petersburg. When presenting …

  27.05.2017

• “White Night of Technology”: How to Ensure Cybersecurity and Teach Neural Networks to See

  …Neural networks: how to teach a computer to see Scientists have been pondering this question since mid-20th century. In 1943, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts proposed a model of a neuron (a single cell of a neural network) to be used for machine learning. 15 years later Frank Rosenblatt showcased a simple neural network that could distinguish between objects in …

  26.05.2017

• Volunteering Unlimited: Students from Russia's 35 Regions Presented Their Projects in Yagodnoe

• New Metamaterial-Enhanced MRI Technology Successfully Tested on Human Subjects

  …nty minutes, it may only take ten in the future. If today’s hospitals serve ten patients a day, they will be able to serve twenty using our development." According to the scientists, the metasurface can also increase the definition of the resulting scans. "The size of voxels, or 3D-pixels, is also limited by the signal-to-noise ratio. Instead of acceleratin…

  25.05.2017

• Art&Science: How Big Data Becomes Art

  …n the Internet, we just don't believe it exists. Data traffic grows with each year, so now, artists and programmers aspire to create a new language for it by combining art and science. Big Data has long become a field not only professionals are engaged in - as of now, common people also take part in analyzing it. In 2010, London city authorities opened access to g…

  24.05.2017

• ITMO University Opens Educational Courses on BIM Technologies in Building and Infrastructure Design

  …on and analysis of changes in structural geometry and can predict the possible effects of these changes” – explains Philip Perepelitca, Head of ITMO University’s International Science and Educational Center "Autodesk". Philip Perepelitsa Why the country needs BIM According to a report by McGraw Hill Construction, in North America companies that use BIM h…

  24.05.2017