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• Nanotechnologies for Teenagers: How ITMO Promotes Physics

  …or all of the four volumes, one would need less than a square millimeter. One can start studying nanotechnology on real tasks from business. In June, 2017, a new project session starts at the Sirius educational center. This year, ITMO University and the NT-SPB Company have prepared four tasks as part of the Microcosm and Probe Microscopy subject area, all of them …

  28.03.2017

• Brandbook 2.0: ITMO Style

  …recollection of using ITMO's corporate style for the past three years. Having browsed through it, one can see how ITMO's brand gradually changed with each year. The current version of the brandbook also includes a part on the university's official accounts in social networks — Facebook, "ВКонтакте" and Instagram. Also, special attention is paid to development and …

  27.03.2017

• Congratulating Top Departments on ITMO University’s Birthday

  …ded first, second and third place in different groups. The selection of winners was chosen on the basis of several criteria: achievements in science, participation in the admission campaign, openness of the department and others. The top three departments were: Department of Computer Science and Control Systems, Department of Nano-Photonics and Metamaterials, and …

  27.03.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  … a treatment is possible for DNA damage from ageing and radiation. It is so promising it has attracted the attention of NASA, which believes the treatment can help its Mars mission. Blood test for cancer. Researchers at University of Los Angeles, California, have developed a computer program that can simultaneously detect cancer and identify where in the body the …

  27.03.2017

• Research on Fairy Circles in Africa Will Benefit Agriculture

  …s start to grow again. Yet, researchers can't explain why termites prefer living in these circular areas and do not expand their territory after resources end. The other version has to do with plants struggling for survival. Water accumulates in tunnels made by the insects, and plants try to grow as close to them as possible. This would explain their abundance on …

  23.03.2017

• Cyberattacks: XXI Century’s Main Challenge

  …ters: to use it, the processor has to support hardware virtualization, and only very old models can't do that. Also, if any new vulnerabilities are discovered, updating hypervision is a lot easier than updating BIOS. Updates on BIOS can be made only by the manufacturer, and the service is available only to users with top computers. Identifying DGA domains usi…

  22.03.2017

• ITMO’s Robotic Center: New Projects by WRO’s Award Winners

  …t's more, by working in the lab, schoolers with considerable background in robotics can bridge gaps in other fields of knowledge. For instance, there's the course on machine vision on Saturdays, and there will soon be a special course for those who want to do projects on Arduino. ITMO University. Igor Lositskiy "Most importantly, such programs help one learn to …

  22.03.2017

• Cybersports: How Gamers Become Professionals?

  …ics and gameplay. Doom 2 also supported multiplayer games. Gamers hundreds of kilometers apart started to compete and organize tournaments online. The first Cyberathlete Professional League was in 1997, when Quake was released. Now, there are tournaments in many games or, as cyberathletes call them, disciplines. Those can be in different genres — shooters, strateg…

  21.03.2017

• Staying Ahead of Time: ITMO’s New Program of Neurotechnologies

  …ertainment and Sports segment, there already are solutions for both individuals and companies. They include VR brain games and effectiveness improvement systems for both professional sportsmen and amateurs. Recent inventions are also used in the Neuro-Assistant segment. Such companies as Rostec and Yandex have long been working on data mining systems that make use…

  21.03.2017

• Ten Online Courses You Won’t Want to Miss

  …k of neural networks, and so on, as well as study examples of their practical use — in robotic design (perception, control), text mining (online search, anti-spam), computer vision, audio processing, database mining, and other fields. Process Mining: Data Science in Action (Eindhoven University of Technology), Coursera The course is aimed at both students …

  20.03.2017