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MIT Global Startup Labs: Coming Soon to Your Smartphone
…es restaurant owners a way to keep track of customer feedback and provide timely responses, as well as updating the establishment’s information on several online platforms simultaneously. “Each restaurant has a profile page with various tabs. For example, the owner may click on “Feedback” and receive a readout of all the recent reviews left on various websites a…
20.07.2017
ITMO Student Wins Phil.Tech Accelerator’s Marathon of Ideas
…The Marathon is the accelerator’s introductory event that was held simultaneously in three cities: St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kazan. ITMO University served as a partner for the St. Petersburg part of the Marathon. Its participants were tasked with creating scalable solutions for social services organizations.. “Our task today is to find solutions that would be h…
11.07.2017
Unexpected Russia: Interview with Chris Hastings
…e traditional Russian culture of overnight train trips, complete with flip-flops, pajamas, and potluck “picnics.” He was also struck by the fact that Russian cities can be simultaneously similar and different. “Town squares with Lenin statues and similar street names all make different cities feel familiar while also feeling new. It's like how Russia seems both …
07.07.2017
PhD Students Win Research Scholarships in Germany
…ystems, will go to the University of Ulm to work on speech recognition systems. "We are developing a system that will recognize speech in both audio and video formats simultaneously: it will read lips and recognize speech recorded with a microphone. We will unite these two modalities so as to attain most precise results," shares the researcher. The system …
05.07.2017
New Summer School on Concurrent Computing
…owadays practically synonymous. Be it a multi-core machine, a computation cluster or a geo-distributed service, a computation system is a multitude of processes performing simultaneous computations and sharing data to synchronize their results. Today, an understanding of the basics of concurrent computing is becoming a prerequisite for those who plan a career in any …
04.07.2017
Created Chip Churns out High-Dimensional Entangled Photons
…d in pairs that share a complex quantum state. The photons are constructed in a state featuring several superimposed frequency components: The photons have several colours simultaneously, and the colours of each photon in a pair are linked (entangled), regardless of their separation distance. With each frequency — or colour — representing a dimension, the photons …
29.06.2017
NAFSA 2017: "In Our Profession We Build Bridges, Not Walls!"
…obal Initiatives Office, Suzanne Panferov, expressed eagerness to pursue the earlier-started efforts in creating a Double Degree program in Art and Science. This news came simultaneously with the historic agreement between the State Hermitage Museum and ITMO University, allowing ITMO researchers access to Hermitage labs and archives for studies. Looking forward to…
02.06.2017
Student Construction Bureau: Programming Robots For Industry 4.0
… in any surroundings provided 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 objects it has to move by means of machine vision. What is more, the robot can put objects in differe…
01.06.2017
ITMO University Opens Educational Courses on BIM Technologies in Building and Infrastructure Design
…What is BIM BIM stands for Building Information Modeling. The BIM process is complex and consists of several simultaneous and subsequent processes aimed at creating a 3D-model of the future construction and drawing up its graphical representation. An important feature is that the system also accounts for the properties and measurements of all of the building’s com…
24.05.2017
Chemists Brought Folded Proteins to Life
…ubstances are lost during synthesis. Influenced by unfavorable factors like strong acids, alkalis or heating, proteins denature, that is they lose their original shape and simultaneously any chemical activity. Thus, the industry is looking for a universal method for recovering protein structure, which could make the production cheaper and more effective. To manufactu…
16.05.2017