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Crossing Single-Celled Organisms With AI: ITMO’s Art & Science Students On Interdisciplinary Art Experiments
…Our second project is Hungry Hungry Humanity, an interactive installation. We used Hasbro’s Hungry Hippos game as a base and updated it with some light robotics. Normally, the winner is the hippo who managed to eat the greatest amount of balls, but in our version it’s impossible to track, because all the balls fall in the same basin. Thus, there’s no winners of the Tech in Media competition, we got to go on a tour of General Electric’s (GE) Testa Center in Uppsala, Sweden. I’ve always associated this corporation with heavy machinery, massive mechanisms, or electric engines; and…
24.03.2020
Machine Learning Hackathon by Botan Investments and AMZScout Takes Place at ITMO University
…are Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD students, but there were exceptions: one of the “Ping_win” team members, for example, is a 14-year old school student. This team is one of the winning ones, by the way. “The hackathon went great! I think it was important that it took place in familiar surroundings, and the organizers were great. They prepared interesting tasks fo…
24.03.2020
ITMO University Team Takes Third Place in Bauman Robotics Club Tournament
…with two loading and two unloading areas,” says Valeriy Chernov, ITMO University student and ITMO team’s mentor. “Ping pong balls were used as a load. You can often pinpoint a winning strategy based on the assessment criteria given in the regulations. The rectangular field significantly simplified the task – we only had to solve the problem of positioning the robot c…
24.03.2020
Top Five: TV Shows to Binge on
…joyed Zootopia, you’re on a steady course for enjoying this Netflix new-in – the proof is in its more sombre and nuanced, but still bizarrely fun, storyline. Based on an award-winning Japanese manga, Beastars takes place in a universe inhabited by anthropomorphic animals – and centers on a complicated relationship between two characters who are positioned, by nature …
20.03.2020
Stay at Home: Popular Science Lectures for the Self-Isolating
… Speakers: Pavel Skutschas, a doctor of biology, expert on mesozoic vertebrates, associate professor at the Faculty of Biology of St. Petersburg State University. The winner of the Hans Rausing Award for the Best Paleontological Work of 2015. Dmitry Sobolev, host of the Crazy Paleontologist YouTube channel. What kind of lifestyle did the extinct animal…
18.03.2020
“We Got Noticed by Intel and IBM”: How an ITMO Technopark Resident is Winning Over the American Robotics Market
…e employees. In four years, we have worked with about 20 people, and they still cooperate with us sometimes when we have a project that requires a very specific specialist. Winning at DeveloperWeek Developer Week is the biggest developer conference in the world. The fact that we were awarded as a best innovation in robotics this year means that we offer a servi…
13.03.2020
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 14-15, 2020
… of the screen than go behind it, head to the movies to see the magical modern retelling of Pinocchio (Sat 4pm, tickets; Sun 4.30pm, tickets), experience the splendor of Oscar-winning Parasite in lush black-and-white (Sat 8.50pm, in Korean with Russian subtitles, tickets), or stay at home and watch the superlative Little Women and Knives Out – now out in digital rele…
11.03.2020
First ITMO Ecohack Participants Create Automatic Waste Sorting System
…he hackathon for us to make sure that everyone got the task and for teams to ask any possible questions. After that, the experts offered their advice on technical aspects. The winning team had the greatest number of points from the jury. Their product was closest to the task our participants had to solve,” explains Ilya. The event also included a lecture by…
11.03.2020
IEEE Scholarship recipient Anna Kuzikova: Science is What Drives Self-improvement
…an extremely distinguished award. Second of all, I was hoping to win because I have two classmates who have previously received this scholarship. In fact, we have a lot of winners of various international competitions and grants, recipients of prestigious scholarships in our laboratory. I wanted to be one of them. Moreover, the scholarship comes with one and a…
06.03.2020