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• Grad Platforma: User-Driven City Events Aggregator

  …In the course of several weeks, working on the basis of the Sirius education center under the guidance of specialists from ITMO’s Institute of Design and Urban Studies, school students conducted independent development and implementation of one of the components of a smart city interface: a platform for aggregating the events of a diverse profile happening in the cit…

  06.08.2019

• Dine with a View in St. Petersburg

  …n mind it’s about a 15-20 minute walk from both Admiralteyskaya and Sadovaya metro stations. Don’t forget to book a table in advance! Situated on the ninth floor of the Kempinski Hotel Moika 22, the scenic Bellevue restaurant offers a stunning view of Palace Square and the Hermitage, as well as St. Isaac’s Cathedral and the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood. C…

  06.08.2019

• Quizzing and Mythbusting: Medical Lab Initiative Comes to ITMO University

  …ey are true or not,” says Vladimir Gubailovsky, science editor at Laba. Medical Lab at ITMO University Events will be held not only at medical centers and research institutes, but also at other, more common venues for pop-sci events: libraries, parks, museums, and lecture halls. Each venue will have its own curator – a well-known medical expert or science…

  06.08.2019

• Taste Summer Like a Russian

  …ruit drink that comes in many flavors - think two tablespoons of jam mixed up with water. It’s often thicker than most juices. It’s a drink of choice at the local fast-food chains and is a popular alternative to juices.  Cold soups If you like Italian gazpacho, you might enjoy okroshka and cold borscht. Okroshka is a summer soup where kvas or kefir is poured ov…

  05.08.2019

• Digital Identity: Current Trends and Future Prospects

  …pe or not. It’s a synthetic person with “suitable” characteristics, taught using other digital profiles, including real people. The second type is the associated DI, which retains and develops the traits of an original prototype based on its digital profile. A digital identity’s structural elements are artificial intelligence (what we control), a digital model (ho…

  05.08.2019

• ITMO University Scientists Present Record Amount of Works at the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference in Prague

  … German, Evolutionsstrategie). Another interesting fact about Ingo Rechenberg is the acrobat spider Cebrennus rechenbergi, which lives in the Namib Desert, is named after him. Inspired by the spider’s movement pattern which is comprised by a series of continuous flips, Prof. Rechenberg created a robot in its likeness. The scientist plans to use this development for t…

  05.08.2019

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Sevkabel Port

  …he fact that it’s not all pretty. Its roots as a 19th-century Siemens & Halske plant that manufactured electrical cables are well evident in the industrial architecture – some inspiring in its authenticity and some clearly in need of restoration. After all, most of it is still a functioning plant that churned out some 49,000 km of high-voltage cable last year. Sprawl…

  02.08.2019

• Mendeleev 150: IUPAC’s Birthday and Invention of Periodic Law

  …d spoke to the audience on the second day of the conference, including Professor Pekka Pyykkö from the University of Helsinki, who spoke about the inner mechanisms and the origins of the periodic table. According to the Finnish scientist, Mendeleev’s fundamental achievement was preceded by other attempts to categorize chemical elements based on their physical propert…

  02.08.2019

• Recognize Me If You Can: Can Facial Recognition Systems Really Tell How We Feel?

  …h their visit to the store and if not, contact them in order to solve any arising issues. The company’s representatives note that a client’s biometrical data can be checked against their transactions, which allows the company to detect a change in a customer’s buying patterns that results from their discontent. Other fields. In March 2019, the Shenzhen Metro launc…

  02.08.2019

• Crystals and Peculiar Stars: Final Day of Mendeleev 150 at ITMO

  …-known. Glenn Seaborg was born in Michigan, USA in 1912. At the age of ten, he and his family moved to California, where his chemistry and physics teacher Dwight Logan Reid inspired him to pursue chemistry. After getting his degree in chemistry from UCLA, Seaborg received his PhD in chemistry from UC Berkeley, where he took part in the discovery of iodine-131. …

  01.08.2019