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How an ITMO Student Helped Develop 5G Networks in EU
…rs have increased threefold in the past decade. Besides, latest inventions in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) have shown that, soon enough, machines will also use wireless connections to communicate with each other. Smart city technologies require a large amount of sensors and various auxiliary systems, which will undoubtedly use wireless technology to interact…
27.02.2018
How Can Russian Post Contribute to Smart City Development
…otspot and other useful stuff. Russian Post staff members can also contribute to monitoring the urban environment. How can this be useful? Let’s say that a postman sees some malfunction in the city’s structure, a pothole, for instance. He or she photographs it and sends the data to the “Our Petersburg” webportal. When citizens send complaints, community services h…
26.02.2018
Academic Exchange in Brussels: Urban Science in the Heart of Europe
…quired over the semester in her future research. One of the studies she worked on will serve as a basis for her Master’s thesis, in which she will examine the effects that the introduction of unmanned vehicles will have on the development of urban infrastructure. She also plans to go abroad for her PhD. “Urban science is still very much a young science in Russia…
26.02.2018
5 Science News Now
…of 160 Gb/s through four optical fibers. This is not only the fastest data transmission speed to date, but the newly developed optical receiver also features the link power-on/off functionality and can wake-up and achieve phase-lock in eight nanoseconds, the shortest switch time in record. Mind-reading algorithm uses EEG to reconstruct images. A new technique dev…
26.02.2018
Russia by Rail: A First-Hand Experience
… in bays of 4 on one side and 2 on the other, separated by an aisle. I went with a friend and, since we bought tickets late, our only choice was to grab the top berths in the 4-bed section. The train had already been travelling for possibly days, and we got on around midnight; it was all dark and gloomy inside, yet, since it was summer, it was also stuffy. We spent t…
23.02.2018
Sberbank President Herman Gref: ”R&D That People Ridiculed Yesterday is Taking Over Markets Today”
…ite to make money, but so far there’s no large investment in this field. No one is against blockchain, but if that’s what you want, you can’t prohibit cryptocurrencies – one can’t function without the other. Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is a slightly different story. It requires gentle regulation by the government because it’s a good instrument for industry and startu…
22.02.2018
App by ITMO Student will Help Vocational Schools Go Digital
…roject - Yaroslav Prikazchikov, student of ITMO’s Institute of International Development and Partnership and the project’s author is responsible for the overall development and interaction with educational institutions, and Oleg Karlovsky, game designer at Nival, is responsible for the project’s technical side. The team members met at the programming tournament that …
22.02.2018
METANANO-2018 Conference: How to Participate and What to Expect
…tics+bioinformatics), targeted drug delivery (chemistry+optics+biophotonics), and single-photon sources (quantum optics+solid-state physics+radiophysics). Projects existing at the junction of several sciences are growing in number, as they are key to finding practical applications for theoretical research. “METANANO covers many scientific fields: metamaterials, …
21.02.2018
Digital Humanities: Education in 21st Century
…you merge history, literature and math? Can a computer analyze literary texts? These and other questions are ones posed by the field of digital humanities, an area of study at the junction of computer and soft sciences. Digital humanities entails the use of digitized and digital materials and combining the methodologies of computer sciences with those of tradition…
21.02.2018
Academic Mobility: ITMO Student on Studying in Poland
…at ITMO, as well as several new subjects for him such as logistics management tools and management accounting. One of the key tasks for the semester included a research in legal protection of information. “I chose this subject on purpose, as I wanted to see and compare how information protection is implemented in Europe and back ho…
20.02.2018