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ITMO Master's Student on Creating Virtual Museums and Getting Motivated
…t, trombone, grand piano, flute and others. What does the future have in store for this project? We got in touch with a museum in St. Petersburg that can boast a large collection of musical instruments; however, they’ve been wasting away under glass cases for years – they cannot be heard or closely examined. We offered to create an application that would gi…
06.10.2017
Telemedicine in Russia: How IT Technologies Help Improve the Healthcare System
… appointment booking and prescription of medications, develop telemedicine, e-business intelligence, and decision support systems. EU specialists have already calculated that introduction of even some of these technologies will help avoid prescribing hundreds of thousands of wrong medication orders, excessive laboratory assessments, which will in turn help the healt…
05.10.2017
Anvar Zakhidov On His Collaboration With ITMO and METANANO Conference
…built a nanotechnologies institution from scratch. What are the materials you commonly work with? We work with advanced materials, including perovskites, and work at the intersection of Materials science, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Perovskites are complex structures, named after a Russian researcher count Lev Perovski. In 1839, perovskites were discovered…
05.10.2017
ITMO Scientists Review 2D Heterostructure Architectures
…res the existing knowledge on the subject and the terminology used by different research groups that have worked on creating nano-heterostructures in the last several years. Production of silicon nanoplatelets. Credit: gapp.az "In our laboratory, we also work with nanoplatelets - both single-component and heterostructures made of nanoplatelets. For instance,…
04.10.2017
TADHack 2017: ITMO Students Finish Third with Tourism App
…quirement was that we use one of the APIs provided by partners and sponsors. We were able to choose from five APIs for our development process, but it was required that we use the functionalities related to video-chat, regular chat, text messages and other forms of communication,” – explains Stanislav Naumov. RedNeed ITMO University’s team developed a prototy…
04.10.2017
Digital Humanities: Digitizing History
…t and promote different resources in the field of humanities. They also introduce DH into the educational process and solve the issues that have to do with the development and introduction of the new digital means for working with text and visual data. 3D model of an architectural ensemble ITMO University focuses on the academic and practical problems of cultur…
04.10.2017
Urbanist Dhiru Thadani: to Improve Cities, We Must Focus on People
…just a few decades, due to a series of erroneous decisions on the government’s part, it became far from an ideal. What were those mistakes? How is it possible to harm a city through actions like these? The entirety of Bombay’s infrastructure was originally intended for private transportation. Each road was built with cars in mind; a great deal of resources was put…
03.10.2017
Controlling Propagation of Surface Waves Using Ultra-Small Nano-Antenna
…a magnetic response to optical frequencies, which is quite unusual. Such a magnetic response has been applied before in specific cases, but this particular device can be used for directional launching of surface waves, which no one had come up with before us. We wrote a very simple theoretical model and conducted an experiment. And, to our surprise, this basic theore…
03.10.2017
Urban Evolution: Artists, Journalists and CEOs Discuss Future of St. Petersburg
…s a time, especially in the Soviet era, when St. Petersburg was justified in cherishing the old, as it appeared a counterpart to the grey, gloomy spectacle that was the Soviet construction. Back then the fetishization of old was justified and understandable. But these days there is no such need. We shouldn’t fear development and understand that, indeed, there is a po…
02.10.2017
Blogger Boris Tsatsulin on Science Writing, Kamchatka and Memes
…her sources, as well. Google Scholar, PubMed, cited magazines in relevant fields - that would be the standard choice. Surely, it's not as easy as it sounds, but there are certain selection criteria one can use. I always try to read through the whole material, and that takes quite a lot of time. Usually, it takes me a week or more to write ten pages. A couple of…
02.10.2017