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Neural Networks Can Identify Any Person’s Age
…Science still can’t offer any solution against ageing. Still, some researchers believe that this would become possible in the near future. One of the important steps to approaching this issue is to find a reliable technique for determining one’s biological age. In the absence of such an instrument, telling whether some solution is effec…
26.01.2018
ITMO Students' Startup Lets Gamers Play With Top E-Sports Players
…s to communicate with other players via voice chat. At first, it is the organizers who hype up the players by commenting on the game or asking questions; gradually, everyone joins the conversation. “Everything goes quite fun, the cyberathlete answers the player’s questions, like how his parents felt about him spending lots of time on games, for insurance. Participants applying for the 2018 scholarship need to provide the selection committee with references from two academic supervisors. You also need to submit your CV (in English o…
25.01.2018
InfoWatch President Natalya Kaspersky: New Technologies Pose Cybersecurity Threats
…they form another one. Сryptocurrency, especially bitcoin, is the hottest new trend. However, obsessed with the latest advancements, people spend a lot of money buying bitcoins and don’t take risks into account at all. But risks exist and they are especially critical on a nationwide scale. Why? Natalya Kaspersky mentioned several problems: The government can…
24.01.2018
Stickerum Startup Brings Your Favorite Telegram Stickers to Life
…taliy Guryn and Egor Berezhnoi participated in the VK Hackathon. "Our team took second place for the most creative team name, the organizers handed us a set of lapel pins, magnets and a sheet of stickers from VK. That's when I thought that it would be great if everyone could order whichever stickers they like." - explained Vitaliy. In just a couple of w…
24.01.2018
Tatiana's Day: Russia Celebrates Its Students
…ans and status. The rich and noble proceeded to party in the most luxurious restaurants with teachers and professors. The typical celebration included gourmet foods, fountains of champagne and rivers of wine (literally), gypsy choirs and troika rides. The great Russian writer, Anton Chekhov, recalled how on 25 January 1884, students “drank everything except the M…
23.01.2018
ITMO and Partners Hold Open Data Hackathon
…s published by public authorities, but it is not so easy to access and use effectively. To do so, professionals have to solve certain practical problems, Dmitry Muromtsev explains. Dr. Muromtsev is the head of the Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, and head of the International Laboratory of Information Science and Semantic Technologies at ITMO Univer…
23.01.2018
Generation Z: Who Are They?
… What is the major difference between Generation Y and Generation Z? We know quite a lot about Millennials. For example, a research conducted by several Western companies (INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute, Universum, MIT Leadership Center и HEAD Foundation) shows that many Millenials are very competitive. 41 % of Generation Y want …
23.01.2018
Climate Change: What the Future Holds
…p three warmest years in the last 137 years. The average temperature of the planet last year was 0.9 degrees Celsius higher than during 1951 to 1980. However, the question remains whether global warming is a result of human activity or not. Most likely it is: 97% of scientists agree that the cause is due to greenhouse gas emissions, a result of pollution from factori…
22.01.2018
ITMO Scientists' Collaboration with German and Swiss Colleagues Wins ERA.Net Research Grant
…ject “Modeling-aided design of a ternary quantum dot-based platform for multiplexed cell analysis”, developed by a consortium including teams from ITMO University, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (Germany) and ETH Zurich (Switzerland), which is among the world’s top 10 universities according to Times Higher Education (THE) rankings. As Ale…
22.01.2018