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• Safe Smart Houses: Soon You Will Live in One Too

  …ng on their idea towards the end of 2015. Since then, the developers created a working prototype, a miniature two-storey house with lighting, ventilation and heated floors controlled by a smart phone, which they presented in Prague. They've also developed a spin-off project, "smart-climbing" during ITMO University’s Future Technologies Accelerator and also spoke at G…

  15.07.2016

• Pokémon GO Diving Into Virtual Reality Technology

  …nary game but as an important instrument for promoting these technologies.” Vladimir Konovalov, CEO of the aeMind IDEntity company, developers of a virtual body control system IVoRy, explains that “the basic requirements for such a game are a device with a camera, display, the ability to import information from the camera, and a graphics processor that is …

  14.07.2016

• New Wave of Students Rolling In

  …pected towards the end of the admission period since these applicants plan to visit St. Petersburg with their parents” said Anatoly Ovodenko, the head of Council for Student Enrolment in St. Petersburg. According to the results on July 5 there are three state universities leading in the number of applications submitted. The North-West Institute of Management of …

  13.07.2016

• Crowd Math: Researchers from St. Petersburg, Amsterdam and Bangalore Made the World's Largest Social Experiment

  …ratory crowd behavior modeling. The main difficulty connected with quick data processing was caused by scattered data – using all acceptable data sources specialists could control only separate areas instead of the whole system. “In December we analyzed the city map and building plans but the only thing we got was a primitive model of crowd behavior. Currently w…

  12.07.2016

• The New Way of Teaching Metamaterials

  …inning. The main issue was that there were no existing examples or experiences to use. As such, the Chair’s staff had to develop the curriculum from scratch. “The first enrolment of students was extremely good and we were able to complete the pilot version of the plan successfully. We are focused on the quality of preparation of our students, as such, not all th…

  08.07.2016

• Building a Bridge to Asia

  …ersity of Technology were also signed. Presently students from Shanghai University are studying at ITMO U at the summer school with the School of Computer Technologies and Controls. Some activities in the field of pharmaceuticals are planned to be made in cooperation with Lanzhou University. In the middle of July a delegation from Changchun Institute of Optics and Fi…

  08.07.2016

• Good News for Coders: Google and Facebook are Hiring

  … me that I succeeded in these tasks and offered me to choose a project. Usually applicants start to work only after completing it but, as the recruitment officer said, I was enrolled before that because of my good results. I decided to work at GooglePlay. Together with colleagues I will upgrade its’ searching system by making it “smarter.” For instance, if a user is …

  05.07.2016

• Rankings, Strategies and Love, Academic Excellence Initiatives Conference Comes to an End

  …rom Germany, France, Japan, Spain and Canada shared how academic excellence initiatives are having an effect on the development of education and research. Thoughts such as the role of scientists and the academic community in decision making processes in Germany, and the increase in the autonomy of French universities were also shared. Mikhail Strikhanov from the Nati…

  01.07.2016

• Robot Cleaner to Save the Arctic

  …s, Gleb Zagarskikh, Danil Pavlov and Danil Martynov, representing three different schools, under the guidance of trainer Igor Lositsky from ITMO University’s Department of Control Systems and Informatics competed in the event. Their "Clean the Arctic" idea is to have robots requiring no human intervention making their way through the icy coasts collecting barr…

  30.06.2016

• Natural Metabolite Can Suppress Inflammation

  …rom M0 inactive state to M1 pro-inflammatory state. If the concentration of this substance increases to defined limit, macrophage activation falls. “Itaconate sets the bar controlling M1 macrophage formation,” says Alexey Sergushichev, one of the authors of the paper and PhD student at ITMO University. “Without this substance, the inflammation would increase more tha…

  30.06.2016