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• 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

• 2016 Rio Olympics: ITMO University Graduate Takes Bronze in Shooting

  …ts of prizes. He became a winner at the ISSF World Cup 2015, the World Cup 2015 finalist and received the silver medal at the 2015 Summer Universiade.  The Olympic champion trains under the guidance of his father, Akop Grigoryan. In 2014 Kirill Grigoryan graduated from the Chair of Secure Information Technologies with honors. As of now, the medal table of Russia h…

  12.08.2016

• Lenticular Images: Researchers Combine Art & Science

  …erent angles. Vasilii Trushin, researcher at ITMO’s Design and Multimedia Center, who worked with this equipment, was guided by Andreas Sarakinos, a representative of Hellenic Institute of Holography. "We have fixed a camera to a slider which consisted of modular yards and a tripod, and a smartphone or a tablet to control movements of the camera. Before that w…

  11.08.2016

• Perseids 2016: Guide to Watching a Meteor Shower

  …though it was a weak one. Those who missed this phenomenon should wait for new solar flares and cloudless dark nights. The stronger the aurora, the easier it is to see it from inside the city - one should go up to a high place (like a balcony or a rooftop) and look North. For those who like these strange flares in the sky, but aren’t good with specialized websites, t…

  11.08.2016

• Optics Used for Measuring Blood Velocity

  …nfirmed the efficiency of our approach", - says Yuri Emelyanov. Occlusive laser-optical plethysmography allows to asses both blood velocity and the tone and capacity of veins in the study area. The method using electrical resistance is being developed in the USA, but the equipment is times more expensive than the device developed by scientists from ITMO. Dmitry …

  10.08.2016

• Ready to Move: Young Coders Share their Career Experience

  …is area correlates with my Bachelor’s and Master’s theses. My graduation paper is devoted to studying of individual and group characteristics of social networks’ users. For instance, analyzing photos from Instagram and Twitter’s texts one can determine demographic characteristics such as gender, age, marital status and so forth. This…

  10.08.2016