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The New NANO-year in Saint Petersburg
…ance to immerse into the virtual reality of the videos by Video360Production team, to see the human body structure using the interactive atlas created at the eScience Research Institute and play computer games without even touching the computer — using a small USB-device that monitors hand movements with the Leap Motion technology. …
13.09.2016
ITMO’s Graduate Ilya Czech on How to Develop the Prosthesis Market in Russia
…t is the doctors attitude towards the new technologies? When they understand that we don't just offer new technology, but the methods to rehabilitation as well, they become inspired and help us in every way. Before we started, this field was totally neglected; noone really worked with children and their parents. We, on the other hand, invite a psychologist when we…
13.09.2016
Five Things We Loved Last Week
…vantage. Forbes Space Opera. Composer Paola Prestini collaborated with astrophysicist Mario Livio, who’d worked at Hubble Space Telescope, on a scape opera to celebrate the instrument’s 25th anniversary. The Hubble Cantata debuted this August in New York, featuring the Met Opera stars and a 3D virtual reality show. Nature Dark Milky Way. No, not a new chocolate…
12.09.2016
The Day Programmers Bathe in Fountains
…r 22.04. It derived from the «Software in Computer Engineering and Automated Systems» program's code official listings — 220 400. Nevermind the jokes about bathing in fountains (that's what paratroopers do on their official holiday), the Day of the Programmer is calm and peaceful. IT-companies usually celebrate it with different events and parties where they condu…
12.09.2016
Portuguese Scientist Talks About Optical Technologies
…teams worldwide work on this as well. We are also interested in creating waveguides with a repeater. We study the subject by making comparisons between physical phenomena. For instance, you have a physical body — a metal shield, and one more of the same kind. When they rub against each other, they generate light. And this process can be…
12.09.2016
Transport of the Future: A Foresight Session at the Anichkov Palace
…ury and the curators were representatives of ITMO University, Smolny and the city's Palace of Youth Creativity, as well as experts from Saint Petersburg Metro and state public institution "Organizer of Transport". The schoolers and the university students made their presentations separately, but, as Ms. Natalya Lukovnikova, the head of ITMO's Foresight Center notes, …
12.09.2016
The University of Children: Their Dreams and Plans for the Future
…Sisters Sonya and Rita, 4th grade Rita: We've really liked the teacher she explains everything really good. It's great, since few teachers at school can do it. For instance, during lessons on our city's history they always talk about Peter and Paul's Fortress, and what we want is interesting stories about other places. Speakin…
12.09.2016
METANANO-2016: Best Reports and Future Collaboration
… has become popular among scientists worldwide. ITMO University got the right to organize the event in Russia due to support from Mr. Alexei Kavokin, head of The Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics and the founder of the conference, as well as funding from the Russian Science Foundation. "There were not only scientists from foreign universities at the…
10.09.2016
The Shock of the New — Latest Developments in St. Petersburg Theater Part 2
…mposer and a fragile young woman named Dorothy who may be fan, stalker, housekeeper, lover or muse — or all at once, we’re never really sure. She breaks free from some type of institution — perhaps a lunatic asylum — to inspire him to continue living to the full and writing music. Everything is lovingly conjured by Tumina using metic…
09.09.2016
Quantum Perspectives: Present and Future Tech
…our everyday life. The simplest example is flash storage devices. In solid-body data storage devices the bytes of information are stored as a charge that is implanted into the insulator - silicon oxide. To rewrite the information, you first have to remove the existing one. To remove the charge from the oxide, quantum tunnel effect is used: the electrons escape the el…
09.09.2016