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  • AR&VR Hackathon SPB 2016: 30 Hours for Creation a Piece of Virtual Reality

    …hanks to a “death simulator” made by ROFL Team one could analyze the meaning of life; Flying People presented a device, which helped to see what a moving fly saw;  PDLV Gamers inspired by The Witness and Antichamber developed a puzzle-platform video game; Is hard and 22 teams presented fighting video games. The participants also made virtual reality acceptable for…

    26.02.2016

  • Excellence Centers Build Bridges Between Science and Manufacturing

    …cus on research and practical activities connected with innovations. They can be based on universities, R&D centers and industrial labs or developed from the ground up. For instance, German excellence centers deal with research projects that increase competitiveness of the local technologies in the global industrial arena; Finnish centers are based on associations…

    25.02.2016

  • IT Approach to Modern Medicine

    …What project do you develop at ITMO University? Generally speaking I focus on translational medicine. It means that my colleagues from the Institute of Translational Medicine and I apply information technologies for medical practices. Using medical data we develop specific information systems that will help doctors to prescribe a rehabilitation plan.   The r…

    19.02.2016

  • An Article by ITMO University Researchers Is Among The Top-20 Optics and Photonics Papers

    …A topological insulator is a material with non-trivial topological order that behaves as an insulator in its interior but whose surface is current-conducting. The thin conducting surface topologically protects electrons from external disturbances and material`s imperfections due to impurities and defects. ITMO University researchers …

    16.02.2016

  • ITMO Fellowship Stories: 'To Make the World a Better Place'

    …university education. That is why I work in higher education in particular. The societal problems that we are facing are global and that is why universities should collaborate instead of competing with each other.   To make the world a better place I came here when I was 18; that is why Russian culture had a great influence on my personality development. I n…

    15.02.2016

  • Fifth “Open University:” Free Lecture about a Love Hormone

    …lner carried out an experiment with rats to show that they can be scared. However they made a mistake by implanting an electron within a part of brain responsible for pleasure instead of the “fear center.” The rats repeatedly pressed levers connected with electrodes to receive tiny jolts of current. They did it every six seconds and nothing could divert their attenti…

    15.02.2016

  • Distance Education: Live and Learn

    …binars, so it`s a great challenge to choose one of them. The courses offered by universities are very conservative but at the same time they give basic knowledge and necessary instruments of the further development.   Why did you chose ITMO University`s course? I decided between several programs. Unlike other ones ITMO University`s program is completely dist…

    12.02.2016

  • Colorless Ink Can Print in Color, Does Not Harm The Environment

    …ied by an inkjet printer is virtually unlimited." The work currently is at the proof-of-principle stage. Creating a vibrant color red with this interference approach, for instance, remains a challenge. However, the reported green color turned out to be the first that is both safe for the ecosystem and did not fade from UV exposure.…

    12.02.2016

  • GECCO-2016: “How to Speed Up Evolutionary Algorithms?”

    …d take much more time if a human tried to develop it by himself,” noted Maksim Buzdalov. However evolutionary computation cannot be applied for all kinds of problems. For instance, if to make it develop a computer program using a source code the GA will invent many wrong versions before to offer correct one because this type of algorithms is based on trial-and-e…

    11.02.2016

  • Moscow is Illuminated with Magic

    …The Exhibition Magic of Light opened its` doors in summer, 2015 in St. Petersburg. Despite the fact that more than 82, 000 visitors have enjoyed wonderful exhibits and installations, the dwellers and tourists continue to take pleasure in light magic: Magic of Light. Lite is still popular now. Organized by ITMO University and Museum of Optics the exhibition presents s…

    10.02.2016