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• Champions of ACM ICPC-2017: ITMO University’s team returns to St. Petersburg

  …y, who won the contest last year. A total of 130 teams took part in the international championship, 13 of them representing Russia. “Many competitions and training sessions were held throughout the year in which our close competitors – Warsaw and Seoul – showed excellent results. Until the contest began, we were all a bit nervous, but once it all started, we…

  30.05.2017

• Clothing Made From Bacteria, Electronic Tattoos, And Latest Virus Threats: What We’ve Learned at the Campus Festival

  … hours and affected both devices of common users and strategically significant hubs of different counties. Then, it turned out that the new virus was actually a redeveloped version of quite common cryptoware. Initially, it was intended to earn money in quite safe a way: by using the affected devices' capacities to produce bitcoins. Yet, the developers decided to take…

  30.05.2017

• Digitally Immortalized: How the Solovetsky Monastery is Finding a New Life in Virtual Reality

  …bject’s historical look throughout a certain period of note. That is why the staff here had the idea to model and to visualize the Solovetsky monastery complex as a three-dimensional model of its 16-17-th century appearance, when it was still in its prime”, - explains Artem Smolin, project co-lead, head of ITMO’s Department of Engineering and Computer Graphics and le…

  30.05.2017

• Science Fest: Growth of VR, Functional Food and Why Humanity Will Always Return to Earth

  …ers entertained the guests and thematic workshops were available. The event featured several interactive areas. The guests were greeted by a robot equipped with a high-precision navigation system allowing it to quickly find its way around the creative space. The participants demonstrated robotic arm manipulators, 3D-printers, eye trackers and brain stimulation hel…

  29.05.2017

• Big Data and the Russian Dream

  …sure from his friends and family, he felt that it was time to do his Masters, but he started the search a little late. All European and U.S. Universities had closed their admissions, and opportunities for scholarships were no longer existent, and he was stuck. From London to Novosibirsk he searched, but to no avail.  Eventually things were really looking grim, he’d a…

  29.05.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …med by injured areas of the brain. Higher res TVs coming. A new color changing surface tunable through electrical voltage could lead to three times the resolution for televisions, smartphones and other devices. By applying differing voltages, it’s possible to change the color of individual subpixels to red, green or blue - the RGB scale -- or gradations in between…

  28.05.2017

• Foresight Fleet 2017: St. Petersburg Is To Become A Global Construction Bureau

  …This time, the four-day session took place in the Verkhnie Mandrogi nature reserve on the Svir River, and was organized by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, the Leader Club of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the city's administration and the Agency of Ready Solutions. Most of the session's participants voted for the solu…

  27.05.2017

• Find Your Piece in the St. Petersburg City Day Puzzle

  …e place in the Summer Garden: any visitor would have the opportunity to try himself at being an artist. 300 easels and hundreds of liters of paints, help and advice from professional artists - whether you are an apt artist or a total newbie, you should definitely participate! Those who prefer using their own tools can bring them and join the event as well. To sum …

  26.05.2017

• “White Night of Technology”: How to Ensure Cybersecurity and Teach Neural Networks to See

  …ll of a neural network) to be used for machine learning. 15 years later Frank Rosenblatt showcased a simple neural network that could distinguish between objects in a two-dimensional space. Although back then image analysis was still unattainable. Why? “Imagine you have a picture made of 9 pixels placed in a 3 by 3 grid. We take the first column, add the second …

  26.05.2017

• New Metamaterial-Enhanced MRI Technology Successfully Tested on Human Subjects

  …ogy at Leiden University Medical Center. Until now, no one has succeeded at integration of metamaterials into close-fitting receiver arrays because the metasurfaces’ dimensions were too wide. The novel 8mm-wide design of the metasurface helped solve this issue. "Our technology can be applied for production of metamaterial-based ultra-thin devices for many d…

  25.05.2017