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• Summer School in Tallinn: Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction

  … Alexei Lavrov and his colleagues worked on making earphones "trendy": some of the elderly think that glasses and earphones are something associated with old crones and are against using them despite the necessity. Lidia Korpan's team took on introducing speech and gesture recognition technologies into computer interfaces, and Elena Veselova's team - the additional r…

  18.08.2016

• Russian Coders: To Leave or not to Leave

  … I’ve been working since. I have never regretted about my decision because research activities give a free hand.” Comparing Jobs Maria Baburina and Sergei Kesarev, JetBrains’s programmers, note that they agree with the overall statistics. Sharing her experience, Maria noted that currently there are many successful IT companies in Russia. They provide young spec…

  18.08.2016

• The Ins and Outs of the Postgraduate Admissions Process at ITMO

• Light-Emitting Glass Will Enhance Solar Panel Efficiency

  …Ultraviolet light and dust reduce the performance of silicon solar cells. To protect cells against these negative factors, special glass screens is used. If the panel is covered not with ordinary glass but luminescent glass (one that emits light upon absorbing ultraviolet radiation), it will not only protect cells from mechanical impurities, but also significantly im…

  17.08.2016

• «Yagodnoe» International Camp: Results and Achievements

  …arned about separating waste. Just before that we found a huge unauthorized disposal field on the territory of the local wildlife reserve. We had to write to the Environmental Inspection Committee to make them utilize it», — comments Alyona. Yet, the large dump played a positive role in the camp's work. The coordinators proposed finding unusual artifacts in the wa…

  17.08.2016

• Creativity and Traditions of Resistance: Financial Times on the Development of Innovations in Russia

• Faster, Higher, Smarter: 5 Main Technological Novelties of 2016 Olympics

  …eeing blimps The Summer Olympics security is upheld by 47 thousand guards, 65 thousand policemen and 20 thousand military. Still, Brazilian authorities found these measures insufficient: they've also introduced patrol blimps that are fixed with Logos Simera and Altave Omni surveillance systems. Each has 13 cameras that can record high-detail videos with a resoluti…

  16.08.2016

• Rudolf Kalman Passed Away

  …born in 1930 in Budapest; his family moved to the USA in 1943, where he studied electrical technology. Mr. Kalman obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in Columbia University in New York. His most famous invention was the Kalman filter, a mathematical technique widely used in the digital computers of cont…

  15.08.2016

• Migraines May Be Caused by Vascular Reactivity

  …sion plethysmography is widely used to diagnose diseases related to the tone of the cardiovascular system. During the measurements, the researchers block (provide occlusion) veins in some part of the body and record the increase in size of the limb over time. This makes it possible to define various parameters of the blood flow. But this method is associated with som…

  12.08.2016

• Online Creativity: Crowdsourcing Services to Help Business

  …uster and ideas that employees want to offer. That problem appears because if, for example, a company consists of at least 100 people it cannot involve all staff members in brainstorms and meetings at the same time. Currently one solves this problem using crowdsourcing services. These online platforms help to find needed solutions and ideas from employees, clients…

  12.08.2016