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• Andrey Sebrant On Machine Learning, Public Confidence and Relevant Education

  …hyped up apps as Prisma, Face App and others. In your lecture, you gave examples showing that these technologies can also be applied in such fields as the metals industry, for instance. What are the chances that machine learning will soon bring real results in the more traditional fields - industry, medicine, public service and the like? What is hindering this proces…

  06.02.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …tion stands to revolutionize the way we control the flow of electrons through a circuit: vanadium dioxide (VO2). A key characteristic of this compound is that it behaves as an insulator at room temperature but as a conductor at temperatures above 68°C. This behavior - also known as metal-insulator transition - is being studied in an amb…

  06.02.2018

• ITMO Winter School Offers New Hackathon Format

  …ng a fleet of driverless cars. The winning team proposed a service for assessing the emotional state of bank clients. According to the project’s authors, their idea was inspired by the real life situation when clients are persistently asked to assess the quality of service. On the other hand, the banks themselves often find it impossible to quickly and adequat…

  05.02.2018

• ITMO Students’ Project Cryptopus Helps Cryptocurrency Investors Reduce Risks

  …place and find what you’re looking for. This is how our platform functions: customers use it to find a trader they’re interested in and interact with that trader only,” – explains Alexandr Romanov, CEO of Cryptopus and student at ITMO University. The platform has two basic categories of users: investors, who join the market and gain profit from letting professio…

  05.02.2018

• Internships in Belgium: How to Apply and What to Expect

  …2 becomes a gas and leaves the system. As a result, the structural connections of the solid particles of the gel do not change and solid matter results, but with microcavities inside. “This substance can serve as a good insulator. It also has properties of sorbents, so it can potentially be used as a filter in a car’s exhaust pipe,…

  02.02.2018

• ITMO University Hosts Potanin Foundation Competition

  …nowledge, presentation skills, and leadership. Creative tasks are taken in groups, and each test takes a full business day. “Each year’s competition is different. For instance, this year it took less of a game-like format; it was more about discussion. The competition’s main topic was the future, namely “The city of 2050”. This is why all of the tasks will b…

  02.02.2018

• Webometrics-2018: Russian Universities Strengthen Positions

  …en into account, each with its specific weight coefficient. This year saw no changes in the ranking’s methodology. The Presence indicator represents the number of pages on the institution’s main web-domain that are indexed by Google, and has a weight of 5%. The Openness indicator (10%) reflects the institution’s number of citations in a…

  02.02.2018

• Meduza Publisher on Living in the Era of Bad News

  …t the 21st century, but the entire human civilization. But there was a time when this anticipation wasn’t fueled by thousands of outlets all over the globe, reporting at every instant whether it has begun or not. “All of this, of course, is amplified by the specifics of living in Russia; on average, we have more bad news to report on than in the countries we lik…

  01.02.2018

• ITMO Researchers Team Up With French Scientists on New Type of Hybrid Nanoparticles

  …do we need to overcome this? This is where nanophotonics comes in; the primary materials there these days are heat-proof, nonorganic or hybrid metal-organic structure,” – explains Valentin Milichko, research fellow at the Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials. Today the creation of new photonic nanodevices is one of the most important areas of research. …

  01.02.2018

• @deifmobot - Telegram Bot For ITMO Students

  …he wrote an algorithm that would do it, and the bot informed her of the results as soon as they got published. “The Distance Learning Center online platform is a good instrument, yet the bot will allow the students to get data from the system a lot quicker. There are many more ideas on how to make the bot even better, but they require closer cooperation with…

  01.02.2018