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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

  …ce helicopter; secondly, they can't discern faces or license plate numbers in their current configuration - the resolution is still not enough. Robot journalists Writing news by oneself is becoming a thing of the past - that must have been Washington Post's idea when they turned the task of processing the competitions results over to AI. Their Heliograph techno…

  16.08.2016

• ITMO University Participates in the Erasmus+ Program

  …Erasmus+ is the European Union's new program for education, training, youth and sports for the period of 2014-2020. The project finances not only academic exchange and student mobility, but also initiatives for development and promotion of new pedagogical techniques and materials, educational models for meeting the demands of the modern…

  15.08.2016

• Rudolf Kalman Passed Away

  …ere 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 control systems, navigation systems, avionics, and outer-space vehicl…

  15.08.2016

• Five Things We Loved This Week

  …to school preparations are not complete without choosing the right working hose for the coming school year. Students shared their thought process on their top choices with the New York Times. Photo courtesy of higherperspectives.com …

  14.08.2016

• Migraines May Be Caused by Vascular Reactivity

• Online Creativity: Crowdsourcing Services to Help Business

  …offered more than 50 indicators for evaluating the efficiency of volunteers’ work. Using man-machine algorithms the system detects the most effective operations and adjusts to new conditions. “Currently we collaborate with pharmaceutical sector in the field of process optimization, which includes looking for new solutions. Now St. Pe…

  12.08.2016

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

  ….  In the qualification round, Kirill Grigoryan set the Olympic Record, 629 points. "I am very happy to get such a result," noted Mr. Grigoryan in his interview to LIFE78 news portal. "However I wish I got 2nd place. When I did my last shots my emotions let me down. It only seems that we are keeping calm, but in fact we are full of excitement. The emotions overt…

  12.08.2016

• Lenticular Images: Researchers Combine Art & Science

  …ural compositions of churches and warships in an unusual way: the exhibits will be holograms, lenticulars and 3D models. ITMO U’s Art&Science cluster moves with the times – new technologies have become an integral part of social life and culture. They can be applied not only for digitalization of existing art items, but also for a new

  11.08.2016

• Perseids 2016: Guide to Watching a Meteor Shower

  …m allowed those living in St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region to see the season's first aurora, even 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 No…

  11.08.2016