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• New Nanoobject Construction Method Opens Road to Complex Optics

  …ll into a nanoplate and, therefore, calculate the optical properties of a nanoplate in a curved space. “This method is analogous to the one that is used, for example, in Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Using this transformation, we have been able to calculate the optical properties of such a nanoplate in a curved space and recording the nanoroll’s optic…

  02.10.2017

• Internet Day: How Internet Started in Russia and What’s with the Dish on ITMO”s Roof?

  …k and Irkutsk. Another important day in Russian Internet is April 7, 1994, when the domain .ru was registered and entered into the database of the top-register national domains.…

  30.09.2017

• Spatial Development Forum: How Citizens Create Smart Cities

  …ss, Russia’s northern capital has every chance of getting into the index’s top-50, said St. Petersburg’s Governor Georgy Poltavchenko at the Forum. According to a report by McKinsey Global Institute, just 600 cities around the world will provide for 60% of the world’s GDP by 2025. It is not clear what these cities are, but the megacitie…

  29.09.2017

• "HOW should I trust?" - Thomas Leitch on Fake News

  …f society. Opponents bombarded each other with fakes like the one with Pope Francis or pizzagate. Donald Trump's behavior after he became president is noteworthy, as well: for instance, his famous tweet where he accuses New York Times of their news being fake. The problem of fake news is surely a pressing one. As of now, fake news has become an epidemy, and I'm af…

  29.09.2017

• ITMO won Silver "Dolphin" at the Cannes Corporate Media and TV awards

  …The world has grown accustomed to the Palme D’Or for the best feature films and the Cannes lions for the best advertising films, but the dolphins for the best corporate films and documentaries, who also found their home on the French Riviera, in the South of France, the public knows much less about. However, now it is the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards that sets …

  29.09.2017

• School Students Present Their Inventions At the St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum

  …chnology and Innovation Support Centers (TISC). In St. Petersburg, one can find TISCs at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Mikhailovsky Military Artillery Academy, ITMO's Institute of International Business and Law and INFORM CJSC. School Patent: IP Leaders BarCamp BarCamp is a new, but already popular format of short presentations. This year, it has been …

  28.09.2017

• ITMO's Metamaterial MRI-Boosting Invention Praised by St. Petersburg Government

  …o biology or human anatomy. The imaging process, however, is quite time-consuming, much longer than a CT or an ultrasound scan. Patients must spend 25 to 50 minutes motionless inside the unit, which is uncomfortable for patients and means that patients have to be put on waiting lists. This is caused by the fact that magnetic resonance has a low signal-to-noise ratio …

  28.09.2017

• Google Celebrates 19th Birthday

  …itation services are effective, as well. At the same time, different search engines have access to various data – some documents that Yandex can access, Google cannot,” – explains Dmitry Muromtsev, head of ITMO’s International laboratory of Information Science and Semantic Technologies. In 2012, Rinat Safin, head of Google’s search quality team in Moscow, sh…

  27.09.2017

• TechNet: New Opportunities for Innovative Startups

  …pete with foreign counterparts on a global level. Factories of the future Even now, a company’s competitive ability depends on more than just its basic technologies. For instance, if some car manufacturer releases a unique model of headlights, those will be soon copied by its competitors. In future, one will be able to retain leadership positions by adding some…

  27.09.2017

• Japanese Exchange Students Share Impressions of Russia

  …iting a country and show viewers how things really are. At MSU, we also visited departments where students are taught journalism, psychology, political science, as well as the Institute of Asian and African Countries, where we spoke about international relations and other political subjects. Reiki Takenaka, Kyoto University I found out about the student exchang…

  27.09.2017