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• The Master Provocateur

  … quantities can manipulate audiences, heighten expectations, add allure, irradiate the artworks with an ethereal glow. He knows how affront begets PR, builds narratives, sends news stories flitting around the world. Most importantly, shock has the power to mythologize: "Once you indulge in a proper analysis to the word "provocation,'' he once said, "you will see that…

  03.02.2017

• ITMO University Takes Part in the "Innograd" Project

  …y -Ed.], engineers and researchers will be able to live near their workplaces. According to the project plan, the total area of Innograd will be about 1 square kilometer. The new hub will create up to 12,000 new workplaces. The Start Development Corporation will become the main investor of the project. …

  03.02.2017

• CODA: The New Approach to Virus Protection

  …ny ways to bypass such tests — "upgrading" the malware to do that takes only about a couple of hours. Antiviruses As for antivirus development, it goes like this: first, new malware appears which can bypass the antivirus protection popular among its "targets". Such program will hack the computer even if it is protected, as it was already tested on similar confi…

  03.02.2017

• Science by High-School Students: Young Engineers Presented their Projects

  …e rates. Then we create a database, which contains "perfect" temperature parameters. The system limits temperature jumps," said Svetoslav Oreshkin. Svetoslav Oreshkin A new solution for irrigation Drop irrigation is widely used but unfortunately the system is not effective, believes Susana Arutunyan, ninth grader from Samara region. Instead of drop irritation…

  02.02.2017

• ITMO Opens its Chemistry and Biotechnology Research and Educational Center

  …airs, and other similar organizations. "We are going to concentrate most of the university's competencies in chemistry in this center. This field of science is something new to our university, yet, we've fitted all the laboratories with all the relevant equipment, so I believe we'll succeed in developing this direction", adds Pavel Krivoshapkin. Today, both i…

  02.02.2017

• ITMO Students Develop an Algorithm For Defining One’s Marital Status

  …lgorithm that can predict an internet user's marital status. To teach the algorithm to "understand" the task, they've turned the data on the internet activity of users from New York, Singapore and London into sets of vectors that reflect such properties as the average size of a twit, the most frequent objects on photos, check-in distribution and the like. Then, th…

  01.02.2017

• 13th Baltic Science and Engineering Competition: From Small Discoveries to Great Accomplishments

• Amusement or Science: The Role of Modern Museums

  … work, as well as learn what is good for them and what's not. Such placesare more of an amusement centers than a museums, but still. Corpus museum in Netherlands Another new trend is popular science centers, where every visitor can not only see the exhibits, but also try to create something himself and see how it works. Still, museums continue to be sources of …

  31.01.2017

• Science for Whetting Your Appetite

• Small and Smaller: Micro- and Nanoscale Robotics Can Help Doctors and Ecologists

  …Scientists from all over the world work on new types of micro- and nanoscale- robots. Medicine and biotechnologies are the most popular applications of these systems. For example, engineers at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich developed micro-robots for targeted drug delivery, which is used to avoid toxicosis caused by medications. Micro-robots will be …

  30.01.2017