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• YAC/e Conference: AI Ethics and Why IT Needs Humanities

  …th morality issues, yet when it comes to the ethics of technology, the situation calls for cooperation between IT and philosophy. One of the forms of such collaborations is science communication; its practitioners can bridge the gap between the scientific community and society.  In Russia, these kinds of specialists are trained ex…

  01.12.2023

• ITMO Researchers To Model New Medications and Microelectronics

  …oduce novel molecules with desired features using computer modeling, quantum chemistry, and AI. The laboratory is led by Mikhail Medvedev, a researcher at ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center and the head of the theoretical chemistry team at N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who supervise…

  30.11.2023

• Student Spotlight: Vladimir Kartashev, Kyrgyzstan

  …events where we could meet representatives of different universities. I went to one such online meeting held by people from ITMO – there, I learned about the Congress of Young Scientists, a contest that gives you a chance to enter ITMO without exams. I found a collaborator at my school and together we developed an Android app for the visually impaired, which helped u…

  30.11.2023

• This Week in St. Petersburg: November 30 - December 6, 2023

  … 14, Mon, Wed, Sat-Sun: 11 am - 7 pm; Tue, Thu, Fri: 12-9 pm ROSPHOTO  300 rubles (200 rubles for students) An exhibition with a title fitting for a museum of natural sciences or optics – and perhaps it would have been one if not for the exhibits: stereoscopic photographs from the late 19th-early 20th centuries. Back then, before television and the internet,…

  29.11.2023

• ITMO Chemists' New Technology Detects Antibiotics in Milk

  …trips to analyze dairy products; however, their accuracy rarely exceeds 70% and the method itself is limited to detecting only the presence of antibiotics, not their quantity. Scientists from ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center have suggested a new, more reliable technology based on electrochemical analysis and machine learning; it c…

  29.11.2023

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #44

  …hat includes researchers from ITMO has come up with a solution: soft magnetic robots that can easily remove accumulated biological material from the surface of a catheter. The scientists tested several prototypes, including one that has demonstrated near-100% efficiency, and are now working on adapting the robots for other medical needs. Read more: Minimally Invas…

  27.11.2023

• ITMO’s Infochemistry Center Opens Lab Coworking for School Students

  …ith all schools in St. Petersburg. Before they start working with actual equipment, each student will try conducting their experiments in VR. They will also learn to work with scientific information at the online laboratory Chemical Search Engine.  “Every year, we witness the emergence of new technologies – take the example of IT and AI. In order to ensure that …

  27.11.2023

• Radiologist Olga Puchkova Talks About Medical Issues To Be Solved With AI

  …as well as a consultant at ARNA Genomics and Sberbank’s medical AI development team. Breast cancer is one of Olga’s research interests. In collaboration with ITMO’s Center for Science Communication, Olga Puchkova studies methods for cancer diagnostics in Russia within a project aiming to evaluate the efficiency of these methods. Surveys show that only a third of R…

  27.11.2023

• ITMO Scientists Named Best at Blue Sky Research Competition

  … St. Petersburg, Sergey Salkutsan, the head of the Foundation for Support of Innovations and Youth Initiatives, and Andrey Maksimov, the head of St. Petersburg’s committee for science and higher education.  “The Blue Sky Research competition is one of the experimental projects implemented in St. Petersburg alongside the traditional forms of providing funding for…

  24.11.2023

• International AI-Based Platform of Services To Appear in Russia

  …ets,” comments Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). “ITMO University is a national research university with its primary focus being on scientific activities. In addition to the Research Center “Strong AI in Industry,” which was established as part of the federal Artificial Intelligence project, the university also has the Comp…

  24.11.2023