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"Come Out and Solve!" - The First All-Russian Test in Technical Sciences
Do Male and Female Scientists Collaborate Differently?
…s interesting collaboration patterns and suggests that the playing fields in some disciplines are not as level as they appear. Collaboration plays an increasingly important role in promoting research productivity and impact. What remains unclear is whether female and male researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) disciplines differ i…
11.02.2017
Female Scientists on Their Work, Inspiration and the Magic of Science
…that could work independently. When I was a kid, I built a special structure from constructor parts filled with balls of different colors. When I threw another one inside, one rolled out, and I tried to understand why and at what condition a particular ball rolled out. In essence, that was a complex probability system, something similar…
11.02.2017
Minister Olga Vasilyeva Awards ITMO’s Staff with Russian Federation Government Prize in Education
…at the Computer Technology Department, Maria Skvortsova, Dean of Faculty of Higher Qualification Expert Training, and researcher of the School of Computer Technologies and Controls professor Peter Maria Arnoldus Sloot, who’s become one of the very few foreign nationals to ever receive this award. According to the professor, this award is a result of a consolidated IT…
09.02.2017
ITMO Launches a New Set of Massive Open Online Courses
…tion strategies and plans, and will be able to plan work and production processes. The student will train these new skills by solving practice-oriented cases, as well as using role playing instruction methods. Legal Fundamentals of Intellectual Property Today, issues related to intellectual property rights are an essential part of any new invention or star…
09.02.2017
Ready Steady Go: A New Technology for High-Speed Video Shooting
…y will be 64 GB, which gives an opportunity to make 100 second high-speed videos. Thanks to global shutter mode, one can make videos without distortions. The camera can be controlled remotely by Android devices. The developers plan to improve the device so as to make it possible to change lenses. According to the startupers, over 20% of the high-speed camera market …
09.02.2017
Meadowsweet Decoction Showed its Activity in Cancer Preventing
… create perfect conditions for experiment, the scientists randomly chose 87 rat pups whose mothers had not been injected with the carcinogen, and defined them as the third control group. During the next two years, the researchers daily examined the animals, weighing them and identifying new tumors. 38% of rats from the control group …
08.02.2017
Neural Interfaces to Control Reality: a New Project at the Future Technologies Accelerator
…Neural interfaces can be used for many actions and operations for which we now use speech or control devices. For example, when one wants to turn on a computer, one presses a button, or when one wants to make an order at a cafe — asks the waiter. Neural interfaces are designed to do these things using mental commands. As of now, most researchers develop neural interf…
08.02.2017
Solitons for Optical Computing: ITMO’s Physicist Receives a Presidential Grant
…ignificant advantages, such as magnetic and electric resonance responses and spectral position that can be shifted by changing size or shape of nanoparticles. It allows to control properties of structures consisting of such particles by choosing appropriate size parameters. Furthermore, under certain conditions non-linear effects in these structures can be enhanced.…
07.02.2017
The Master Provocateur
…he subject. What is known for certain is that Fabre was born in 1958 in a poor, down-at-heel district of Antwerp into a rather unremarkable family. Inspired by Rubens, he enrolled at the Antwerp Academy of Beaux Art and was soon already developing some of the techniques that would establish his artistic career. These included his so-called Bic-Art, works created e…
03.02.2017