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• Art&Science: Optical Devices In Fine Arts And Design's Role In Evolution

  …these two buildings, we'll get the convergence point.  It is obvious that Jan van Eyck used such methods as well," shares Charles Falco. What's more, Jan van Eyck also used projections: despite their small size, some of the details (for instance, the chandelier on the painting) retain its proportions, which allows scientists to suggest that the artists did the n…

  21.06.2017

• ITMO's PhD Students Will Simplify Online Learning On OpenEdX

  …The OpenEdX platform has many such courses. It already contains thousands of educational programs developed by different educational establishments. Previously there was no interconnection between them - no direct links from one course to another that would have helped the user get comprehensive knowledge in a particular field. Such an approach is quite effective,…

  20.06.2017

• Lawns vs. Paths: Why Urban Planners Can’t Please Everybody

  …’ mobility and public transportation. These systems are interdependent and a flaw in one could cause them all to collapse. For example, if a subway train is delayed, a whole chain reaction of errors and jams soon follows. This is why it’s very important to track and study the interaction between crowds in such complex systems. Another b…

  20.06.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …els — and ethylene into a fuel with the same boiling profile as petrodiesel and met the standard for commercial biofuel sold in the EU. China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky action’ at record distance. A team of physicists reports that it sent intertwined quantum particles from a satellite to ground stations separated by 1200 kilometers, smashing the previous…

  18.06.2017

• Fan-zone, Optoclones and Cat Achilles - St. Petersburg's Ready For Confederations Cup

  …rs confirmed that the city is 100% ready for the tournament. "Just recently, the renovation of the House of the Journalist has been finished. The city has completed its reconstruction and remodeling, so I think everyone feels nice here. We've created all the conditions necessary for the representatives of the media to feel comfortable: here we have a resting spa…

  16.06.2017

• RVC Experts: Why Entrepreneurial Education Matters

  …uccessful foreign technology transfer centers, they need to consist of people who have spent years working in the industry, people who are well familiar with the market and have connections. In Russia, the issue of forming teams with serious skills in commercialization of university research is still a relevant one. Who is teaching entrepreneurship in today’s Russ…

  16.06.2017

• ITMO Fellowship Stories: Italian Professor Shares his Thoughts about the Stradivarius of Science

  …d but traditionally it was based on binary schemes. This did not properly work for 40 years because binary systems provide a well-defined frame, which may result in unavoidable restrictions. Now we are trying to apply the idea of neural nets to optical systems. Neurons have nodes and these nodes, which are randomly connected, can be simulated using optical circuits. …

  15.06.2017

• Airalab: The New Robot Economics Doctrine

  …cellphone's balance or a Webmoney wallet providing one had a powerful graphics card. Sergei understood that this was a service for bitcoin mining. After studying the Investments section of the State of Bitcoin Report (a trimestrial report of the CoinDesk analytical service) and analyzing the statistics, his team understood that the future belongs to the developmen…

  15.06.2017

• ITMO International Days: Best Practices

  …following key questions: №1: What will the website's structure be like? It can be a "landing" page, or a hub that has links to different subportals, or a single portal with many sections. It is essential that the user would have to do no more than three mouse clicks to find the necessary information, and the navigation has to be as simple as possible. №2: What …

  14.06.2017

• ITMO International Days: International Collaboration as One of the Main Trends

  …mselves and better adapt to new educational environments. The second day’s round table was dedicated to ITMO’s best practices of attracting foreign students and onsequences of introduction of tuition fees.  …

  13.06.2017