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• From Entertainment to Medicine: Programmers Presented their Projects at AI Hackathon

  …he projects presented at the hackathon were devoted to socially important issues and those of entertainment. However, some projects couldn’t be referred to only one group; for instance, both a model who constantly keeps diet and a person with diabetes can use an application with a food recognition technology. Lots of projects were devoted to medicine. The particip…

  14.03.2017

• ITalented: the New Course for IT Students

  …deemed ideal, gives way to the new, express approach. So, how does it work on practice? Many St. Petersburg IT companies are already working using agile approaches — for instance, Scrum and others, notes Maksim Ivanov. They imply a totally different approach to project management, and even different competencies that developers have to possess. Yet, recent grad…

  14.03.2017

• The More Chocolate the Better Test Results — What Really Helps to Prepare for Exams?

  …lly true — glucose is a source of energy for every cell in the body, and the brain consumes over a half of the energy we have. If one lacks glucose, the brain works worse. For instance, neurotransmitters stop exchanging electric signals, think researchers of the Harvard Medical School. It leads to poor attention and decreases cognitive functioning. However, a supe…

  13.03.2017

• The Results of Q.E.D Competition or How People Solved Math Tasks

  …udition," commented Natalia Sitenko, lecturer from the Department of Advanced Mathematics. When solving tasks, people deal with real objects rather than abstract things. For instance, the 8th question offered this year started with: "It happened in winter 2017." Masha, the birthday girl, realized that her age is equal to the sum of numbers comprising the year when …

  13.03.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …icroscopy to show that a small difference of only several amino acids can have a large impact on flagella, which are tiny rotary motors that move bacteria. The study gives new insight on the construction of synthetic nanomachines. Radio bursts powered by aliens? Newly published research by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that mysterious phenom…

  13.03.2017

• ITMO University in QS World Subject Rankings for the First Time

  …gs are based on Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) methodology and are counted as one of the most influential global university rankings. Annually, more than 4,000 higher education institutions around the world are evaluated. According to the results of this research, a ranking of more than 900 of the best universities in the world are prepared, as well as rankings for ea…

  10.03.2017

• New Material Makes it Possible to Record Data with Light

  …earchers learned to bring two types of excitons individually: intralayer and interlayer. The first arise when a photon absorbed by the crystal turns into an electron-hole pair inside a layer, but the second appear when an electron and a hole belong to neighboring layers. In some time, both kinds of quasiparticles disintegrate, re-radiating the energy as a photon. But…

  10.03.2017

• Watching the Skies: Roscosmos Installs a New Set-up for Monitoring Space Debris

  …Space dumpster ESA and NASA have long published a video that shows the increase in debris from artificial satellites and their remains on the Earth's orbit for the past half-century. On the video, it seems that the planet is literally surrounded by it, yet, one must note that different parts of space debris have different size. This means that the real picture is …

  09.03.2017

• "Genome Tetris" and Analyzing Fly Behavior: BioHack — the First Hackathon on Bioinformatics

  …St. Petersburg's first hackathon on bioinformatics was organized by the international IT company EPAM in collaboration with Bioinformatics Institute. ITMO University hosted the event, which gathered the 100 participants who've passed competitive selection. For two days, they had to solve tasks set by leading scientific centers, laboratories and research inst discrimination. Yet, when talking to some novice male programmers in private, I sometimes hear the opinion that women should only be housewives. Not to say anything bad about these people,…

  08.03.2017