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• Winter Holidays in St. Petersburg: Merry Christmas!

  …ace to experience this holiday jewel than in St. Petersburg. Performances are running all throughout the holiday season and range from classical to modern takes. The new version of Nutcracker done by Mikhailovsky Theatre is set in the early 20th century with art nouveau touches. True to the original, a more traditional version of the…

  19.12.2017

• ITMO Students Develop AI to Combat Car Insurance Fraud

  …How fraud works The algorithm developed by ITMO students is a decision support system for car insurance companies that can help tell whether some traffic accident is a work of swindlers or not. Nowadays, swindlers concoct minor and major traffic accidents to make their victims cover their insurance payments. Sometimes, policy holders themselves attempt to cheat in…

  19.12.2017

• Nanoscale Super-Resonator Extends Light Lifetime

  …ble spectrum wavelengths. According to the authors, the small size will be beneficial for the construction of miniature lasers on microchips and optical sensors with high precision. Yuri Kivshar “For its functioning, a laser needs the light to be repeatedly passed through the same atom. The better the resonator is, the less light emitting atoms we need. The…

  18.12.2017

• Teaching 3D Tech to School Kids in Moscow

  … animated characters that can “come alive” with the help of Epson augmented reality glasses). These studies will help high school students become familiar with different professions and appropriately choose the university for their desired field, having already gained some experience working with the equipment and software. Credit: vm.ru  “This is already t…

  18.12.2017

• 5 Science News Now

  …How did AI beat poker champions? Libratus, an artificial intelligence that defeated four top professional poker players in no-limit Texas Hold'em earlier this year, uses a three-pronged approach to master a game with more decision points than atoms in the universe. AI was able to achieve superhuman performance by breaking the game into …

  18.12.2017

• ITMO Dean Sergei Kozlov Receives Auspicious Award

  …rt" city and the Internet of Things would work driven by certain sensors and autopilots - and all these systems would have to transmit information from one to another. Transmission channels would then, of course, need to be protected on the highest level. Otherwise, criminals would not need any physical strength to take control of a bus, for example: all they would n…

  15.12.2017

• The History of Light in Art

  …identifiable character of the painting. “This concept became even more ingrained in artists’ thoughts after Isaac Newton wrote about the nature of light as a constant emission that can be split into countless spectres, and how there is no color, only the people’s perception of it,” – notes Olive. In the 18th century, this is also confirmed by chemists. Per …

  15.12.2017

• Free Li-Fi, Light Swings, Bicycle Parkings and More Light Design from ITMO

  …ce serious emphasis on improving the location’s lighting. A team of specialists has been working for more than six months on the right solution for the embankment. These professionals have been analyzing the human flow, nature of people’s interaction with the space (at the whole district and directly at the embankment area). They have also met with the district’s res…

  14.12.2017

• ITMO Graduate on Helping Develop Cardano’s ADA Cryptocurrency

  …ny’s debt to the token owner, a right for the owner to claim some bonus (like being able to use the company’s products for free), the right to participate in the company’s decision-making, etc. “I believe that cryptocurrencies will see a lot of use in the future; in any case, bitcoin will be seen as a standard simply by its merit of being the first – even though…

  14.12.2017

• Top 2 Among Engineering Universities

  … the field of management, 69 universities in humanities and 48 medical universities. The universities were evaluated based on such criteria as: the demand for trained professionals by employers, commercialization of intellectual property created by the university, as well as the demand for the research work of the university. The top two spots amongst the engineer…

  14.12.2017