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• Relocation Tips: Getting Your Cell Phone in Russia

  …en you travel to another city you will be on roaming and the calls, messages and internet will be more expensive. Some of the tariffs are designed for those who need to travel inside the country with smaller payments for roaming. So when choosing your tariff, ask about this. In some cases there are plans where you don’t have to pay anything extra for roaming. How …

  08.08.2017

• How Neural Networks Help Scientists

  … became one of the most popular downloads in Russia, Belarus, Estonia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Armenia and Ukraine. The novelty of Prisma was that instead of applying filters to an image, it used a self-learning server-side neural network to analyze and restructure the image. This year, the FaceApp selfie-editing service also garnered …

  08.08.2017

• ITMO University and NSU - New Collaborations for the National Technology Initiative

  … in St. Petersburg and the Novosibirsk region. By the end of the year, we will already be able to show some results in the fields of NTI and innovative entrepreneurship," explains Nina Yanikina, Head of Project Management and Innovation Department. Nina Yanikina As for what has to do with education and science, the universities plan to launch projects in the …

  07.08.2017

• Summer at Sirius: SciComm, Interactive Learning and Sports Programming

  …hey put much effort in their projects, and really care about their research. The children spoke a lot about what's important in their research and the problems they solve. For instance, I never knew before that seaweed and oil are equally dangerous for ships and sea creatures, and that it is most difficult to monitor oil spills or prosecute ship owners who don't wash…

  07.08.2017

• ITMO Scientists Working on New Generation of Aircraft Fire Safety

  …016. According to Wall Street Journal, sources close to the investigation into the crash claim that smoke detector malfunction has been a problem on A320 airplanes before. For instance, in April 2011 this happened on a United Airlines flight from New Orleans. The signal was determined to be false; after that event, the company sent a memo to its pilots regarding fals…

  07.08.2017

• ITMO University has moved up in Webometrics Ranking

  …coming sixth place. In their comprehensive assessment of universities’ internet resources, 4ICU considers four criteria, each with a particular weighting, which evaluates each institution based on their standing in the internet. In the last ranking, the calculation methodology was changed for several criteria; this time, the improvements concern a change in weight of…

  04.08.2017

• Rainy Day Gadgets: How Science Deals With Bad Weather

  … contact with liquid and shrink when it’s dry. This is achieved not through an outside stimuli like electricity or some mechanism, but using sensors. According to Chen, he was inspired by regular pine cones and the way they “close” when wet. The material can be used, among other things, for roofing. Rainproof bench An unusual solution for rainy day leisure has …

  04.08.2017

• ITMO Scientists Improve Lensless Computational Microscopy Technology

  …f various optical devices such as telescopes and microscopes. A lensless computational microscope does not have any lenses or microlenses to form images on an image sensor. Instead, the study specimen is lit up (by laser or diode) and the object’s light diffraction pattern is registered. Using special algorithms, the end image is calculated using these very patter…

  03.08.2017

• Gaming Your Way In Programming

  …programming. The player is to take on the role of a wizard who uses programming code to alter the surrounding reality. On each level, he is to solve a particular task - for instance, find a mushroom that can help defeat an ogre, lead an army or escape from a prison. The player is to write a code for that and then watch how it works. The tasks gradually become more…

  03.08.2017

• ITMO and NTU to Collaborate on Academic Mobility Programs

  …ciety (Germany) on the Fraunhof Singapore research center. NTU's New Learning Hub. Credit: arch-shop.ru ITMO University is developing in a similar way by creating such institutions as the Institute of Translational Medicine and the Institute of Cyber Technologies for Financial Systems, which are pa…

  02.08.2017