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• The Power of Light: How Lighting Design Affects Our Lives

  …s. To do that, light designers rely on several research methods. Prototyping allows using light with different types of materials, which results in new forms of light-object interaction. Field observations are also important: when working with architectural forms, it's most important to understand how they will look with and without lighting. Thus, a lighting desi…

  22.05.2017

• Science Without Borders: The IV International i-Customs Conference

  …from the different sides of the border. We have different statistical data, and participants from different countries often find it hard to get inside information due to access restrictions. Thanks to us working together, the process of gathering and processing information was controlled by our scientific advisors who are renowned professionals in their fields, thus …

  22.05.2017

• Trolling Evolutionists with Flatfish or: Five Facts that Prove Natural Selection

  …it into the rest of scientific knowledge. Secondly, many take the word “theory” to mean something unproven or unfinished. In this case, though, the word “theory” represents a whole section of biology – called evolutionary biology, akin to the theory of relativity being a whole section of physics. Some also tend to say that Darwin has…

  22.05.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …Skull sets a new record. A 1982 artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for a record $110.5 million at Sotheby’s auction of contemporary art Thursday night. The painting’s graffiti-like typography depicts a face in the shape of a skull. Music AI synthesizer by Google. NSynth uses machine learning to produce funky sounds derived from recordings of about a thousand dif…

  22.05.2017

• U.S. Ambassador to Russia Visits ITMO University

  …programs in English and admission of USA applicants to our university. Members of the delegation showed great interest in the projects conducted by ITMO's business incubator, the selection process for startups, the volume and sources of investments in small innovative enterprises, as well as issues concerning the seed financing of startups. ITMO's representatives …

  19.05.2017

• Music Under the Sky and Art that Never Sleeps: Lively Weekend in St. Petersburg

  …e about it and check out the program here. Vintage Transport Parade If you’re not exhausted yet, on Sunday 21st May from 12pm to 7pm you can check out the unique transport collection from the Museum of Electric Transport. Different kinds of vintage Russian transportation will be on display during this special parade which starts from the Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, t…

  19.05.2017

• Neural Networks Never Get Tired: Data Science Specialist Andrei Sozykin On Opportunities Offered By Neural Networks

  …e open courses, in Russian as well. Surely, many are in English, and they are enough to understand the basic algorithms and theory. Of the Russian courses, I can recommend the Introduction to Machine Learning (Coursera, Higher School of Economics, led by Konstantin Vorontsov) and the Machine Learning and Data Analysis specialization (six courses on Coursera by the Mo…

  19.05.2017

• Training IT Specialists for Global Financial Systems – ITMO’s New Programs and Collaborations

  …erything you got from it, and you only have 5 seconds time to analyze what you've sent against what was on the market. This way, certain algorithms can be used to track dubious transactions. Any time, an official can come to you and check your software, and if it doesn't comply with the regulations, you lose your license and have to pay a fine - according to the Mark…

  18.05.2017

• Sports, Festivals, Creativity on the Karelian Isthmus - A Summer In Yagodnoe

  … whatever issue arises. "When I was a student, I also spent time in Yagodnoe, and later my children went there as well. Those times, we were allocated to particular sports sections, and every day there were intense training sessions. I, for instance, did fencing, and we only had dancing as recreation. Now, our guests participate in sports activities for thei…

  18.05.2017

• Deputy Head of St. Petersburg Information and Analytical Center: Why the City Needs IT Experts and How to Create Systems for the Government

  …rly acquainted with them. It’s important to note here that in Russia, as well as in all of the CIS countries, St. Petersburg is among the leaders in terms of scale of currently functioning systems. Today the St. Petersburg Information and Analytics Center is develops and supports a good half of all the state information systems in the city. We try to build them ac…

  18.05.2017