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Blockchain for Patenting Intellectual Property: How Will it Work?
…ced smart contracts and Blockchain In the finance sector, Blockchain is becoming a more and more popular system. This is an online platform where different participants make transactions between each other. All participants of the Blockchain are aware of all transactions. Thus you can’t cheat people, and thus there is no need for not…
13.09.2017
Art, Love and Depression: How Your Brain Controls Your Life
…eds of billions. The exact number was determined by, quite literally, dissolving a brain in a special solution and counting the number of neurons. Those are connected by special projections – axons and dendrites. A small space between them – the so-called synaptic gap – is where neutrons interact with each other. Ilya Martynov Axons serve as signal outputs fo…
13.09.2017
Relocation Tips: Perks of Student Life in St. Petersburg (Part 1)
… your student pass: Through ISIC. The easiest way to get your student pass is to select the “ISIC-БСК” option when you apply online for an ISIC card. See detailed ISIC instruction below. At a subway station. To apply for a student pass, bring your personal ID, student ID and a 3x4cm photo of yourself to the ticket office at any subway station. You…
12.09.2017
How IT Technology Saves Lives
…s complicated. For one, not everyone can access such publications. This is where IT technologies come to the rescue. This task can be simplified through the use of registry data collection (data about the results of treatments is added to a database and is later analyzed). This information is subject to a number of limitations in regards to its conclusiveness, while …
12.09.2017
ITMO Student Joins Research at XFEL
…computer won't run slow; also, it will be able to store much data without spending much energy. The other research field is about developing an industrial method for graphene production. This means scientists want to produce it fast, cheap and in large amounts. The new technology works like this: we take silicone carbide and apply ultra high temperatures to it, so…
12.09.2017
How to Make the Perfect User Interface
…ya Birman, the creator of a popular typographic layout and the developer of the Aegea blogging engine. The four-day intensive course is dedicated to the principles of effective interaction between users and graphic interfaces: the intricacies of information perception in humans, the formation of user habits, use of text in interface elements and the informational val…
11.09.2017
RACIRI-2017 Summer School in Sweden
… The school was as rich as you can get: each day the participants listened to five lectures. During one of the lectures, they learned about the latest news regarding the XFEL construction – the most powerful X-ray set-up of its time. Numerous countries were involved in its construction, including Russia (who contributed about 27%). As …
11.09.2017
Science News Now
…atches on cars. Led by University's School of Mathematics and Physics, an international team of researchers have found superlubricity in a few layers of graphene - a concept where friction vanishes or very nearly vanishes. Their findings reveal that the h-BN layers form the strongest thin insulator available globally and the unique qualities of the material could be …
11.09.2017
Machine Intelligence - Key to New Age of Creativity
…al media. Sergey Paranko “Journalism came out of this situation reborn and renewed. We came to understand that all these things are tools. Robots will assume the “lowly” functions, write small stories and help us focus on what’s important – telling a story. In the same way, generative algorithms will help creative people do the small things – like writing t…
08.09.2017
ITMO Fellowship Stories: Look for a Team
…ed the team at the “International Laboratory of Information Science and Semantic Technologies”. Austria His main field of research while at ITMO University is “knowledge extraction from natural language”. He explains that most human knowledge exists in written form, and it is well understandable for human beings but not for a computer which only sees bits but…
08.09.2017