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• Self-Driving Cars: Safe and Modern Solution or a Step towards "Rise of the Machines?"

  …The idea of cars that don’t need humans to drive them is an old dream of science-fiction writers. Such technological solutions first appeared many years ago. In 1950-s cruise control systems that control the speed automatically were developed. Currently engineers aims to make completely self-driving cars that can turn, change lines, park, stop and pick up speed as we…

  04.08.2016

• Jaime Lerner: “Don't Trust Pessimists”

  …our life. Besides, more than 50% of carbon emissions come from cars. That is why the rarely we use cars the best quality of life we have. The idea of mobility is based on connection between all transport systems. In 1983 we proposed this system for Rio de Janeiro. It was about how to connect subway and buses. Of course, almost everyone was against at first. Ho…

  04.08.2016

• Bioinformatics Summer School: Where Tech and Biology Come Together

  … use of different types of whole genome sequencing to study the typical (neurotypical) and atypical (neuronetics) paths of development. Andrey Afanasiev, CEO iBinom, laboratory of functional genome analysis MIPT) presented at the summer school with several lectures on the current status of the bioinformatics market and its development, bioinformatics in medicine. Dmi…

  03.08.2016

• Brain Fitness Games: Can Intelligence Really be Boosted?

  …ites, one can create his own training program, or use a special application to get one by completing a test. The exercises mostly have to do with remembering particular sequences, reaction speed, determining similar objects, mental calculations, etc., and take about 15 minutes a day. For example, such services as Lumosity, Wikium, Neuronation offer games in which one…

  02.08.2016

• Researchers Are on the Way to Obtain First Chemically Synthesized Metamaterial

  …According to the paper published in Dalton Transactions, the new material belongs to the class of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOF) and has a crystalline structure comprising of iron clusters linked by organic ligands. The most apparent property of the resulting material is its giant porosity, which provides numerous active centers inside the crystal for the implementat…

  02.08.2016

• Airborne Troops Day

  …and, obviously, a concert where theme-based songs, like the songs about the Afghan War, will be played. An exhibition of equipage and armaments of the Airborne Troops will be also functioning during the festival. There is also an informal tradition to this festival – the bathing of troopers in many of St. Petersburg’s fountains. The city authorities have been tryi…

  02.08.2016

• Game Theory: “Game Core” to Make People Play and Give Back

  …tices is only one of possible areas to which one can apply games. For instance, “EyeWire” was developed to create 3D map of eye retina’s neurons. Instead of games with some useful functions currently one discusses gamification of common processes connected with education, work and other everyday issues. We don’t have to be afraid of virtual games, we should adopt the…

  02.08.2016

• The Master’s Program Enrollment Campaign: Bringing in Best Students and Training Elite Specialists

  …to influence the educational process. Here, we can mention the third task, which implies the development of modern forms of education – the individualization of education, the introduction of distant education methods, etc. Which of the Master’s Degree programs correlate with the National Technology Initiative, the tendencies in the market and the educational sphe…

  01.08.2016

• Virtual Reality Classrooms: Education of the Future

  …es on the rise and an increasing popularity, it is becoming clear that the potential for VR goes far beyond gaming. Ever since the appearance of Oculus Rift in 2014, the Video360Production project started using these technologies and it has already been widely tested in the field of culture, art, tourism and has identified several promising areas, including education…

  01.08.2016

• Nature Index Names ITMO U as a "Rising Star"

  … “The institutions and countries we examine have increased their contribution to a selection of top natural science journals — a metric known as weighted fractional count (WFC) — from 2012 to 2015. In the competitive world of academic publishing, these are the players to watch.” explain the authors of the rankings. As mentioned by…

  29.07.2016