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• Changes at the "Speed of Lightning": International Council Meeting in Brussels Recaps on ITMO’s Two Years of Striving for Excellence

  …rsthand, as well as give students a chance to share the standpoints discussed at the IC meetings with the student society. Sergey Belov, first year master student, majoring in Science Communication, Vladimir Bakhtin, first year master student of Faculty of Information Security and Computer Technologies, Elena Eremeyeva, first year master student at SCAMT laboratory a…

  14.11.2016

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …A free Al-based scholarly search engine to outdo Google? Semantic Scholar is expanding its corpus of papers to cover some 10 million research articles in computer science and neuroscience. Unlike Google Scholar tat searches by keywords, it aims to "sort and rank academic papers using a more sophisticated understanding of their content a…

  14.11.2016

• Processing Dostoevsky — Scientists Use Optics for Studying Manuscripts

  …position. Dostoevsky also used this ink to write letters, which he dated. So, by comparing the ink, we can tell when Dostoevsky wrote a particular note. To solve this task, scientists from ITMO University used methods of photospectrometry. They've developed a new device: a high-resolution camera is fixed atop a table with the manuscripts. The camera photographs ea…

  11.11.2016

• Modeling Reality: the Fifth "Young Scientists" Conference in Krakov

  …The "Young Scientists" conference is traditionally conducted on the base of European technological universities. Last year, the event was held at the National Technical University of Athens, this year — at the AGH USTin Krakov; its main organizers were ITMO University and the University of Amsterdam. As Marina Balahontseva, engineer for the eS…

  11.11.2016

• World’s Science Day: What Are the Cherished Dreams of Researchers?

  …mmunity by chance. Writing a thesis was not my main goal, I just wanted to create innovations, introduce them into the market and do business. Once, it occurred me that modern science is a kind of business with its specific rules, which is less cruel and which gives vast opportunities. That is how I became a scientist. I am so excited …

  10.11.2016

• "Slower is Faster" - a Mexican Scientist on Systems' Efficiency

  …hysicists published a study on sheep behavior in the Physical Review E journal. Publishing such an article in a journal for statistical physics may seem strange; actually, the scientists studied a system with an infinite amount of degrees of freedom, i.e. analyzed how sheep pass gates and form jams while at it. In a way, this study is a projection on how crowds behav…

  10.11.2016

• "World of Knowledge" - The Best Science-Popular Films of the XI International Film Festival

• STI, Markets and Ethics — How to Become a Leader of the High-Technology Markets?

  …ture, and we should not forget about human life space, both inner and outer. We have to bring up engineers, developers, designers, as well as develop art and introduce it into science — as art is sometimes better at predicting the future than any analysts. Sergei Movchan, Vice-Governor of Saint Petersburg Someone has to build our high-technology future. So,…

  08.11.2016

• Solitons: Waves that Act Like Particles

• The Communication Laboratory: How to Make Science Popular?

  …The Communication Laboratory aims to assist scientific, educational and media communities in making contacts so as to collaborate effectively. ITMO University organizes events and workshops for the project guided by the Russian Venture Company. According to the cooperation agreement, ITMO has three main areas of activity. First of all, ITMO University experts plan …

  07.11.2016