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• Scientists Produce Water Based Tunable Metasurfaces

  …ts rotation. "The incident wave is partially transmitted, partially reflected, partially absorbed. Redistributing water inside the cells, we change the balance between transmission, reflection and absorption. This determines where the metasurface can be applied: for polarizers, filters, or selective absorbers," notes Andrei Andryieuski, research fellow of the Departm…

  13.12.2016

• Surviving Yemen, Surviving ITMO

  … surprise of their life. Five of them came to St. Petersburg and spent their first year studying Russian at the National Mineral Resources University. About his first impressions of St. Petersburg, Dheya says "I never dreamed of living in such a city, such beauty, it’s like an open museum, every time I go on the streets I’m amazed as I’m looking around me. I don…

  12.12.2016

• "Neuronet": Who Will Control Our Brains in The Future

  … detectors that transmit neurodata. The moderator of a meeting sees that two members have a concentration level below the threshold and they are not participating in the discussion, though outwardly it looks as though they are. People might not get enough sleep, be "night owls" by nature, but still have to come to a meeting. The moderator may decide to move the meeti…

  12.12.2016

• From Akinator Genii to Machine Learning: A Science Slam Participant on Detection Technologies

  …e brought from abroad. De facto, we have no good Russian counterparts for such software. And we all know that now we have to work on import phase-out. So having an improved version of this technology would be great. And what of the foreign counterparts? There are many foreign counterparts for detecting and recognizing objects — those that use neural networ…

  12.12.2016

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

• Hermitage’s Head Clocksmith on his Work, Laboratory and the Importance of Restoring Technological Marvels

  …Kurchatov Institute in Gatchina, and it was really interesting there. Still, I left for the Hermitage in 1994 — the year our Laboratory was founded. What are the professional and personal qualities a clocksmith has to possess? Are there many such specialists in the world? I believe that as in any profession, loving your work …

  07.12.2016

• Video360Production Becomes Samsung Russia’s Official Partner

  …ment, as they are launching their own service for VR content. They already have their Gear 360 camera for filming such videos, but the quality of its videos is still not professional-level. Still, its users need access to services and hostings to upload their videos, and then share this content via social networks. So, with the launching of their hosting, Samsung sta…

  07.12.2016

• How to Improve the Quality of Higher Education?

  …s evaluate their educational programs themselves) and the external (when universities use the assistance of outside observers to analyze their activities). With regards to decision making processes, the expert acknowledge that ITMO has to combine centralized and decentralized approaches, which means joining initiatives of departments and centers as well as projects d…

  06.12.2016

• "Searching for Lost Kitties": ITMO student Develops an App for Finding Lost Pets

  …e knows that a neural network is some algorithm that can be "taught". You put in a condition, that the image features a cat or a dog. With time, the network learns to make decisions independently. We plan to create our own algorithm for comparison. The point is to make it so that the app will understand the similarities between two images that feature the same animal…

  06.12.2016

• Reaching the Finals! ITMO’s Teams Do It Again at the ACM ICPC

  … means that a team can only look at whether their solution is counted or not, while their rivals and viewers can only see that this team has tried, but they don’t know the decision of judges. Teamwork affairs A team consists of three people only, but everyone has his own responsibilities, as members cannot use one computer at the same time. Generally, all teams use…

  05.12.2016