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• Joining Big Science: How PCs Help Large-Scale Projects

  …cludes the following projects: looking for treatment of tuberculosis, HIV, and cancer (WorldCommunityGrid), protein structure determination (Rosetta@home), development of meteorological forecasts for the nearest future (ClimatePrediction) and others.   All these projects have the same rules: researchers set a task, divide it into simple parts and send volunteers. …

  09.08.2016

• Drones at Work: Delivering Pizza, Searching for the Lost... and Dismembering Snowmen

  …uch service) and other operations that have to do with monitoring something from above. Obviously, copters will be of great use to the Ministry of Emergency Situations for controlling forest fires and other natural or industrial emergency situations. Technical problems "For autonomous flight, a drone has to be fixed with lots of sensors. Apart from the usual …

  08.08.2016

• Life-hacks for Studying Abroad: Students Share their Advices

  …erious problems yet, but one still has to study everything carefully and ask questions if need arises. It's also good to plan twice the time for everything. And be sure to control everything by yourself! Good luck!   …

  08.08.2016

• Exploring Innopolis: Russia's Silicon Valley

  …How to enroll at Innopolis I decided to apply for Innopolis on my friend's advice -  he's already been studying there for some time and told me that was a great experience. So, I sent in my application.  Then, I had to take two tests - one for Computer Science and one in English. I was also supposed to write a motivation letter, as well as send in some letters of …

  05.08.2016

• Self-Driving Cars: Safe and Modern Solution or a Step towards "Rise of the Machines?"

  … idea of cars that don’t need humans to drive them is an old dream of science-fiction writers. Such technological solutions first appeared many years ago. In 1950-s cruise control systems that control the speed automatically were developed. Currently engineers aims to make completely self-driving cars that can turn, change lines, park, …

  04.08.2016

• Jaime Lerner: “Don't Trust Pessimists”

  … I want also to focus on the idea that everything has its’ own design. Curitiba is my native city where 1,800,000 people live in. Every city apart from its’ problems has the role which is to act humanely toward people. It includes such issues as mobility and sustainability. Now 83 cities all over the world use so-called Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) of Curitiba, the…

  04.08.2016

• Brain Fitness Games: Can Intelligence Really be Boosted?

  … to ever study the effectiveness of games in developing human intelligence from a scientific point of view was Torkel Klingberg, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. In 1999, he conducted an experiment during which children played computer games focused on training one’s memory. As a result, the participants demonstrated no…

  02.08.2016

• Researchers Are on the Way to Obtain First Chemically Synthesized Metamaterial

  …d Metamaterials at ITMO University notes: “All together, the magnetic properties, the high optical activity and the enormous porosity achieved in the obtained MOF can help control polar molecules at nanoscale (for instance, by orienting them in the required direction), to strengthen nonlinear optical properties of theMOF or to form new ones, such as resonance energy …

  02.08.2016

• Game Theory: “Game Core” to Make People Play and Give Back

  …s will attend both theoretical lectures and practical trainings. Game industry is changing very fast. Electronic dance floors, virtual guitars, Wii, Kinect, Leap Motion Controller and other devices help computers analyze physical motions. Thanks to them people interact not only with devices, but also with each other and the reality we live in. One of the most wond…

  02.08.2016

• The Master’s Program Enrollment Campaign: Bringing in Best Students and Training Elite Specialists

  …reparing them for the conditions of the fast-changing world of modern science as well. Master’s Degree programs in ITMO University are really attractive – 40% of last year’s enrollment were students from other Russian and foreign universities. What about opportunities for partaking in real scientific projects? Do ITMO U’s Master’s students get those? There are…

  01.08.2016