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ITMO Hosts First Russian Hult Prize Impact Summit Supported by UN
…ing plant-based protein from the Cassia obtusifolia plant. Kawal, the plant’s fermented leaves, are rich in protein and can be used as a cheap meat substitute, which will help solve the acute problem of hunger in Sudan. Moreover, as it is becoming more common to substitute meat with alternative sources of protein, the technology has the potential to be popular with a…
19.05.2021
ITMO University Opens International Cybersecurity Center in St. Petersburg
… will receive training in cryptographic data protection methods, multiagent systems, methods for designing information security solutions for cyberphysical systems, as well as solve practical tasks set by the center’s business partners. Implementing data security projects at the intersection of science and business is the main aim of the research center. “We be…
19.05.2021
Kotlin Creator Andrey Breslav on His Psychotherapy Finder Service
… but his personal problems that he had to work on: anxiety, high expectations for himself, and so on. This way, Andrey began to see psychotherapy as not just an instrument for solving specific problems but rather an essential element of self-improvement – and this had a great effect on his attitude towards the whole thing. The specialist who worked with Andrey use…
19.05.2021
Yandex’s Andrey Sebrant on Progress, Society and Podcasts
…hat, I got invited to various podcasts, and I often got bored. They asked me obvious questions like “when will robots enslave humanity?” or “how would Yandex’s driverless cars solve the trolley problem?” At first it was fun, then I became annoyed with it. When I understood that it won’t be getting better, I got the notion that if I wanted to talk about something, …
17.05.2021
Biologist Dmitry Zhukov on Stress, Depression, and Displacement Activities
…is a reaction to a new significant stimulus, to a situation that demands making decisions quickly. It’s basically an adaptive reaction of our bodies that is supposed to either solve the problem or adapt to the situation. Animals experience stress if there is a direct threat to their life, for example, a predator’s attack. Humans, however, mostly stress over social…
14.05.2021
Elena Rybnikova on Why You Shouldn’t Fight Stress
…xiety – that’s when the body is getting ready to fight a stressor. Most of the fighting begins at the stage of resistance – the body resists the stressor and looks for ways to solve the problem. In the case a stressor doesn’t go away, the last stage – exhaustion – begins. The situation seems hopeless and the body can’t fight the stressor. At this moment, stress stops…
13.05.2021
ITMO’s Andrey Filchenkov: How To Train Neural Networks To Identify Debtors Based on Their Expenses
…oblem. The second part has to do with the fact that the system can be wrong and a client can truly be warned for buying a croissant with their credit card. But this can be solved by a large amount of data. The more information a neural network has, the better it looks for connections and the less it gets confused by our metaphorical croissants.…
13.05.2021
ITMO Researchers Suggest Design for Biointegrable Controlled Nanoparticles
… been tried and tested – the issue can be in adapting it to medical and biological applications: “The concept of controllable nanomaterials, in terms of physics, has been solved long ago,” explains Valentin Milichko, a senior researcher at the International Research Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials. “But as soon as we consider using smart materials wit…
12.05.2021
Researchers Highlight Inbreeding Among Amur Leopards Through Whole Genome Sequencing
…these fields because it means that we all have much better access to information and are not being misled by sequencing errors,” Dr. O’Brien noted. Genomic data will help solve global challenges that modern functional genetics faces: finding out how DNA sequences work, what exactly their fragments represent, which ones are vital and which aren’t, what the conseq…
12.05.2021
Over 100 School Students Give Presentations at 10th Congress of Young Scientists
… of thin air. As a programmer, my task is to improve people’s lives. I knew that teachers have to submit documentation on each lesson specifically, so I tried to find a way to solve this problem. I started working on this project in September and since then I’ve revised it a bunch of times. My school already uses this technology, but I still want to add some features…
06.05.2021