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• Science Fest 2017: Space, Big Data and VR

  …to offer more purposeful advertising. The former task can be solved by analysing the behavior of people who’ve already given up on the services of a particular company. For instance, if some person had been using the services of a particular bank and then stopped doing so, the bank retains data on how how often the client withdrew ca…

  28.11.2017

• Tournament of Two Capitals: Schoolkids Show Off Robotics Skills at Regionals

  …ifficult, as they are training several teams simultaneously," - comments Alexander Negols. He then adds that T2C is already gradually spreading beyond the two cities. For instance, one of the schools in Ivangorod built its own training ground for the robots track "King of the Hill". Organizers hope that they can continue conveying the experience of this competit…

  28.11.2017

• ITMO University Debuts in THE Physical Sciences Ranking

  …00 subject ranking in Physical Sciences was expanded to include 500 universities and increased its share of Russian universities. Per the results, ten Russian higher education institutions have made the list, eight of which are participants of the 5-100 Academic Excellence Project. The best results were shown by Moscow Institute of Phys…

  27.11.2017

• ITMO’s Topological Insulators Research Among 2017’s Top Achievements in Photonics

  …Topological insulators are unique in that they conduct electric current only along the surface while remaining insulated inside. A peculiar protected state is formed on the surface in which electrons in the current are impervious to any external effects or material defects. The current thus runs through th…

  27.11.2017

• ITMO.DoBro Challenge: University Joins International Charity Day

  …laborating with the university. Why participate? “The project aims to bring the new trend in charity in Russia - support of universities - into the public eye,” – explains Konstantin Astankov, general manager of ITMO’s endowment fund – “We will talk about the opportunities to support applicants, students and staff members - the whole ITMO.FAMILY community via…

  27.11.2017

• ITMO.Superheroes: Alfa Bank Northwest’s Head of IT on Secrets of Success

  …On starting a career and setting one’s principles Back in the day, I graduated from the Chelyabinsk State Technical University (now South Ural Federal University) as a machine engineer with a specialization in engines and automated equipment. Obviously, these things don’t have much to do with IT. As a student, I had my first programming experience when I had to wr…

  27.11.2017

• 5 Science News Now

  …ng technique unlocks secrets of 17th century artists. Using terahertz scanners and the processing technique originally designed for oil exploration, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are getting an unprecedented look at how artists did their work three centuries ago. The level of detail produced by this terahertz reflectometry technique could help ar…

  27.11.2017

• Race to the Top: Who Will Rule The Neurotech Market?

  …quantum computing in data arrays processing, including crowd behavior analysis, medicine and other areas with a great number of unpredictable factors. Take the common flu, for instance: it’s very difficult to predict the dynamics of its spread because of the large number of factors that cannot be controlled, like the number of carriers’ social contacts, weather condi…

  24.11.2017

• Things to Do in St. Petersburg: November 25-26

  … dedicated to the Russian revolution. Starting with the Taking of the Winter Palace at the State Hermitage and onto ones like the Art of Agitation at the Museum of Printing or Inspiration in Red at the Rumyantsev Mansion, these projects will allow you to get immersed in the atmosphere of one of the biggest turning points of the 20th century. Note that there are al…

  23.11.2017

• WUD@ITMO: Future of Human-Machine Interaction

  …ical forms of interactions between man, machine and communication systems appear and manifest themselves by greatly enhancing, and sometimes reducing, our capabilities. We can instantiate it with the example of a student with and without a cheat sheet. With the cheat sheet, the student has increased chances of passing an exam; this is an example of a symbiosis of an …

  23.11.2017