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  • How to Make the Perfect User Interface

    …e navigate easily through the interface; so that they would know intuitively what will happen if they press this or that button and what the system expects them to do,” – explains Andrey. Artem Gorbunov's Design Bureau Despite the somewhat narrow understanding of what designers do in Russia, even a clothing designer should understand the human anatomy, as w…

    11.09.2017

  • RACIRI-2017 Summer School in Sweden

    …This is already the fifth time that the summer school is being held as part of a collaborative framework of the Röntgen-Angström-Cluster (RAC) and the Ioffe-Röntgen-Institute (IRI), a joint initiative between Russia, Sweden and Germany. The three countries are trying to pave the way  in using the best X-rays and neutron sources in material science.   Participant…

    11.09.2017

  • Science News Now

    …ound superlubricity in a few layers of graphene - a concept where friction vanishes or very nearly vanishes. Their findings reveal that the h-BN layers form the strongest thin insulator available globally and the unique qualities of the material could be used to create flexible and almost unbreakable smart devices, as well as scratch-proof paint for cars. Texting …

    11.09.2017

  • Machine Intelligence - Key to New Age of Creativity

    …creative types, claims the speaker. History repeats itself Before starting at VK, Sergey Paranko spent a few years as the editorial director at Mail.Ru Group. As he explains, in 2014 the media community had gone through a similar process. Generative algorithms, at that point, had written about a billion stories and journalists started to feel a bit of pressure.…

    08.09.2017

  • Vlog on Eating Cheap, Fast and Healthy by ITMO Student

    …you can always make a light and cheap dessert from Sergey and Yuri! Mix 400 grams of cottage cheese and cream cheese, 200 grams of sour cream and pour it all in a cup! Add raisins for taste.  …

    08.09.2017

  • ITMO Fellowship Stories: Look for a Team

    … ontology relations by combining corpus-based techniques and reasoning on data from Semantic Web sources in 2010. Most recently he was working as an assistant professor at the Institute of Information Business of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and at ITMO has joined the team at the “International Laboratory of Information Science and Semantic Techno…

    08.09.2017

  • ITMO Scientists Help Link Alzheimer’s to Lack of Energy in Immune Cells

    …a. Their main function is phagocytosis – the assimilation and destruction of harmful particles, including dead neurons. Microglia also “consume” beta amyloids. When these proteins are quickly removed by microglia, they cause no harm. However, if that does not happen, beta amyloids begin to form lesions around neurons. This results in a disruption of the neurons’ regu…

    08.09.2017

  • Robot Economics: How Industry 4.0 Will Change Our Life

    …racts with humans? An example was presented at the conference. Imagine a “smart” contract being made for the delivery of cargo by a robot from point A to point B. The robot begins its journey, but, for some reason – say, an unexpected heavy rain – its battery runs out. It understands that it needs an additional charge, which requires a power outlet. It searches the d…

    07.09.2017

  • Developers Present Projects at Girls4Tech Hackathon

    …tely when the program started and sorted them into pairs. We did that so that, in addition to working with their mentors, they would also help and motivate each other,” – explains Tatiana Gaponenko, program coordinator and the head of ITMO’s Innovation Office. Participants of the hackathon at the IdealMachine accelerator Case №1. The Petrovich company has a…

    07.09.2017

  • Researchers use Instagram to Help Tourists See Cities from a Local's Perspective

    …People tend to photograph significant moments or places. Therefore, social networks such as Instagram are constantly becoming more and more popular. At this time, there are more than 700 million monthly active users around the world with 14.4 million of them in Russia. In most cases, people post photos either because it’s the first time they visited a place or, on th…

    06.09.2017