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• Surviving Yemen, Surviving ITMO

• "Neuronet": Who Will Control Our Brains in The Future

  …n standards in this field, so we are at an advantage, as we can form our own". Neurotechnologies for helping the sick Each person has relaxation and brain activity zones. Insomniac brains are painfully active even at times when a healthy person would fall asleep. It is possible to use special exercises to turn brain activity into r…

  12.12.2016

• From Akinator Genii to Machine Learning: A Science Slam Participant on Detection Technologies

  …hat uses them for its filters. As for security, forest fires are now detected using special probes with cameras that are a lot better at detecting fire outbreaks that airborne inspectors. When I was working on my Bachelor's thesis, I had the task of teaching a camera to discern a person against a static background so that they don't …

  12.12.2016

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  … fabricated using a silicon wafer, several levels of substances such as silver, polyimide and polypropylene ferroelectret. Ions are added so that each layer in the device contains charged particles. Electrical energy is created when the device is compressed by human motion, or mechanical energy. A phone-charging jacket here we come! Smart contact lenses to help pe…

  10.12.2016

• Hermitage’s Head Clocksmith on his Work, Laboratory and the Importance of Restoring Technological Marvels

  …Please tell, how did you become a clocksmith? Well, I did not plan to become one. I graduated from LITMO's (former name of ITMO University) Optomechanical Instruments Department and started to work in that field. I got interested in clocks later, as a hobby: once I was asked to repair a broken clock. I tried and failed, but got interested in the subject. Later, my…

  07.12.2016

• Video360Production Becomes Samsung Russia’s Official Partner

  …g the agreement, Samsung chose some of Video360Production's panoramic videos. According to Denis Stolyarov, the content consists mostly of records of concerts and travels. For instance, videos of "Bravo" band songs and one of the first 360 videos recorded in Russia — tours of Saint Petersburg's rivers and canals, were included into the short-list. What's more, Samsun…

  07.12.2016

• "Searching for Lost Kitties": ITMO student Develops an App for Finding Lost Pets

  …os. After we used the Google service, all we had to do was to finish the program. The app searches for photos, but doesn't take everything into account — noise and shades, for instance. Otherwise, it would take too long to do it. So what has to be improved? We need to make it so that the photos online and those that the user uploads would have more similar…

  06.12.2016

• Ivan Zasursky: Inaccessible Knowledge Divides Society

  … copies are more reliable. Even if there is only a slight chance that you might lose data, it’s better to have a backup. "I am sure that electronic communication devices are insecure tools for data storage. They require electric power and proper hardware that has limited service life," noted Mr. Zasursky. To solve this problem one has to understand how library …

  05.12.2016

• Popularizing Science: Director Dmitry Zagilevsky on Shooting Popular Science Films in Russia

  …up in this environment: my father is a professor, I graduated from the Soil Sciences Department of the Moscow State University, so I have many friends who work in science. For instance, the first film I ever shot about science was about my friend, Ph. D. Alexander Ermakov. He graduated from the Biology Department of the Moscow State University and left for Scotland r…

  05.12.2016

• Reaching the Finals! ITMO’s Teams Do It Again at the ACM ICPC

  …o prepare for participating in the ACM ICPC, students train in conditions closely resembling the rules of the contest. "We take part in various preparatory competitions. For instance, recently we’ve invited programmers who won last year. They’ve organized a five hour contest for us, and then we’ve discussed our mistakes under their guidance," said Roman Murtazin, m…

  05.12.2016