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• The Evolution and Future of Public Lighting

  …t mission of working in lighting design and doing it together, using modern methods. After all, all that is happening right now in science and on the market should develop simultaneously, yet, unfortunately, too often these areas do not correspond to each other. Scientists talk of nanotechnologies, while the city’s utility services still have to solve routine issues …

  22.09.2017

• Students at the Crossroads: Making Life Priorities at the Personal Development Center Workshops

  … and in both situations you need to know how to manage. At the training “Businessman or manager”, which will be held on 30 September from 10am to 5pm, practice and career consultants will talk about 2 different paths which require different competencies. The training will help participants distinguish between these two different paths, and, through a series of exerci…

  06.09.2017

• Scientists Achieve Breakthrough in Polariton Laser Technology

  …Pauli Exclusion Principle, which states that two or more identical fermions (particles with half-integer spin) cannot occupy the same quantum state within a quantum system simultaneously. A polariton laser setup. Credit: bibo.kz In polariton lasers, this limitation is overcome in the following manner: electrons in such systems, by interacting with each other …

  06.09.2017

• ITMO Student Wins Sberbank Scholarship to Develop Neural Network for Investment Planning

  …al networks are powerful tools that will let us provide customers with highly customized solutions. Such a system might even reveal the clients’ hidden preferences that a consultant at the bank might not be able to discover,” – explains the scholarship winner. Development In the end, 12 winners were chosen to receive monthly scholarships for the next two year…

  04.09.2017

• Great Prospects, Great Expectations: European XFEL Inaugurated

  …t is on studying the photocatalytic activity of a colloid solution of silver bi-silicate nanoparticles. Photocatalysis is about accelerating a chemical reaction due to the simultaneous effect of a particular chemical compound (the catalyst), and light. ITMO University scientists found out that iron oxidation takes place in a solution of silver bi-silicate nanoparticl…

  04.09.2017

• "In English, Please": De-Jargonizer Helps Make Science Accessible

  …erms. Thirdly, we ask scientists to write a separate article for American Scientist while working on their scientific article, so as so have the materials published nearly simultaneously. We motivate them with the fact that their work will be on Twitter and Facebook and will result in more citations and responses. Our benefit is that the work on material doesn’t get …

  21.08.2017

• RoboCup-2017: ITMO School Team Gets Novice Award

  …ate in any surroundings given it has the map of the territory. The robot's main task is to move across an area with obstacles and move different objects. It uses the SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) algorithm system to define obstacles, and recognizes the object it has to move with machine vision. To solve the tournament's tasks, the team used the YouB…

  10.08.2017

• How Neural Networks Help Scientists

  …gs, each lasting 30 seconds, to study the specifics of different form of arrhythmia. Another 300 recordings were used to hone the algorithm’s precision, this time analyzed simultaneously by the system and a team of medical experts. Other groups also use machine learning to diagnose arrhythmia; for instance, a research team headed by Eric Horvitz, managing director…

  08.08.2017

• Gaming Your Way In Programming

  …Skillotron This recently released platform is a new product created by the DataArt global technological consultancy. The platform is quite unique as one can use it to train their skills in several fields of programming at the same time. The user can check his knowledge by answering questions and earning points. The questions are split into 16 categories and dozens…

  03.08.2017

• Spin Unit Co-Founder on Social Networks’ Effect on Urban Life

  …they are no longer important for survival. Thanks to the IT-revolution, we can virtually be at several places at the same time, communicate with different groups of people simultaneously. This is why our goal is to bring back empathy into people's lives, give them the opportunity to work and communicate in public areas. Such places are to become not just some walk-th…

  31.07.2017