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• SimCity IRL: How Citizens Help Urban Developers by Playing Board Games

  …other. For citizens themselves it’s a great way to test their ideas. I began by creating a 3D-model, so we took a traditional approach and created a physical model. The turns and actions in the game establish relationships between the players, and these relationships affect the environment. It’s a lot more interesting than working with two-dimensional tools, i.e. …

  25.04.2018

• Arizona University Expert: Pros and Cons of English as a Global Language

  …s affordable, both for students and teachers. So it can be a very effective tool, indeed. But I believe that online learning should not be seen as a substitute for face-to-face interaction, but rather a complimentary aid; it is easier to share knowledge and experience, and build a learning community with each other face-to-face. It is still true today that online lea…

  25.04.2018

• School Student Does Research on Holographic Paradigm of Artificial Intelligence

  …ative tasks that AIs that are based on the computer paradigm can’t solve. For one, the existing AI systems lack capabilities that are based on inductive inference - this cognitive function is still the domain of humans only. In order to make up for this deficiency, scientists are working on non-classical paradigms that align with physics, biology and chemistry. One o…

  24.04.2018

• Physicists Discover Way to Control Transitions Between States of Matter

  …Nonlinear systems are extensively studied in a wide range of physical systems, notably in photonics. In such systems, interactions between particles lead to a whole range of novel effects such as nonlinear transitions between different basic states of matter including polaritons, solitons and Bose-Einstein condensates. “Polaritons are quasiparticles formed due t…

  24.04.2018

• InnoJam: Students Help Develop Smart Solutions for ITMO’s New Campus

  …d by ITMO’s Convergent Innovations Center as part of its collaboration with SAP Next-Gen Lab – an innovation and networking laboratory for students and young specialists. Its core function is to provide practical training to students, study SAP technologies and solve tasks relevant to the company’s clients. SAP Next-Gen Lab is created for the Generation Z – students …

  23.04.2018

• “Vzlet” Hackathon: Students to Help Mobile Providers Enter eSport Market

  …am One The winning team proposed an idea of an eSport platform that would become a means of communication between young people who are interested in computer games. Its primary function is managing and organizing eSport events, as well as creating a unique community affiliated with the Megafon brand. The platform’s distinctive feature is its multifunction and social security. “What makes our approach to smart cities really special is that we give priority to our citizens. Our approach is human-centric: we want to design a city …

  23.04.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …that's able to capture real-time, incredibly detailed and accurate images, along with three-dimensional videos of biology on the cellular and sub-cellular level. Large mammal extinction linked to ancient humans. Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and other recent human relatives may have begun hunting large mammal species, such as elephant-dwarfing wooly mammoths, elephan…

  23.04.2018

• ITMO University Launches New Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Master’s Program

  …ental research to clinical practice and industrial applications. For instance, computer aided techniques and statistical methods can be used in DNA sequence assembly, studying the functions of genes, predicting the properties of proteins, neonatal diagnostics, choosing treatments for particular kinds of patients and even drug design. Specialists from ITMO’s Comput…

  20.04.2018

• Irina Hussainova: Estonian “Scientist of the Year”

  … in Estonia actually ceased to be a subject, so I switched to mechanics. This is a completely different area. When I entered postgraduate school I was offered a topic with only conjunctions clear to me in its title. I took it as another challenge that I could not but accept. I literally started from scratch in postgraduate school, but it turned out quite well …

  20.04.2018