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• "Art&Science: Art, Science, Museum": the New ITMO-Hermitage Collaboration Project

  … participants — scientists, restoration artists and museum curators — speak of the most interesting aspects of art-science interaction. The program is comprised of eight sessions, each will take place every third Saturday of the month at the General Staff Building of the State Hermitage Museum. Each of the events will be dedicated to a particular subject and will …

  19.12.2016

• Smart Assistants Based on Neuroethologies

  …information on what news were used by the system to make a particular prediction. The system also analyses each cancelled and approved bargain and teaches itself. The TuSion App was the only project based on neural interfaces. It helps users relax or, on the contrary, focus on something by manipulating art-objects on a cell phone screen. The team plans to sell…

  19.12.2016

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  … Europe’s navigation systems Galileo goes live. After 17 years, Europe’s own satnav, a 10 billion euro project, is finally online and promising to outperform rivals in precision and self-reliance. It’s free to users worldwide and available on smartphones with Galileo-compatible microchip. Full functionality is expected to be reached by 2020. Tech virtually recr…

  18.12.2016

• Janush Holyst: "Emotions Are the Main Engines for Discussions in a Cyber Community."

  …can last from one second to several minutes. If you experience an emotion much longer it means that it is caused by some physiological or social phenomena, for instance, depression. Emotions influence not only our conscience, but also our bodies and brains. Thanks to its' peculiarity we can detect emotions. The easiest way is to analyse behavior of face muscles. B…

  16.12.2016

• Rossiya Segodnya: ITMO is Among Russia’s Top Engineering Schools

  … that it reflects real results of the universities progress from the market point of view. Also, it gives the applicants information on where they can learn an in-demand profession. "In modern times, universities have to meet the demands of the labor market and employers, as well as conduct serious work on career guidance of highschoolers", notes Natalia Turina, he…

  16.12.2016

• Science Slam Participant on Improving Nuclear Plant Operation

  …ced. So when you press them against each other, there's still air left between. Air has low thermal conductivity which is bad for the measurements, as it directly affects precision. Thus, we need thermal grease to remove the air bubbles", explains the scientist. Still, there's even more to it -the whole installation has to be fixed with high-temperature tape, mount…

  15.12.2016

• IT-Breakthrough in St. Petersburg: from Machine Vision to Smart Feeders

  … Alexander Atrashenko, a member of the jury and graduate of the Skolkovo Open University, advised him to refocus his project, as it can possibly solve the problem of machine vision that many companies work on. Andrei Myasnikov, managing partner of ITMO Future Technologies, also noted that the developers should better leave the idea of quadcopters and focus on the alg…

  14.12.2016

• "It's More than ESP" Exceeds Our Expectations"

  …ublic speaking, shared acting techniques and even presented some yoga practices to make visitors feel comfortable on stage. The participants also visited two open discussions and plenary sessions. After the closing ceremony everyone mentioned how much they enjoyed this event, as it was a wonderful opportunity to visit workshops o…

  13.12.2016

• Innovation Ecosystems Forum: Universities are to Turn into Corporations

  …ITMO’s team traditionally participates in this forum, as participation in its expert discussions allows to demonstrate how the university transforms into a 3.0 University on all levels while creating an infrastructure for entrepreneurship, project-based education and training personnel which is highly sought-after and is ready to face the challenges of the future. …

  13.12.2016

• Aiming High: World’s Leading Experts on Modern Sports Programming

  …o as to find the best of the best — as the champions in programming are the people who think really fast and can always find an optimal solution. Actually, finding optimal decisions is a lot more important that thinking of ideal ones. So even those who didn't win the championship but got into the finals are really good at what they do — companies always fight for the…

  13.12.2016