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• Neural Interfaces as Art: How Does Neurotheater Work?

  …re was also a big sphere that was showing all emotions mixed together and rhythmically producing the graphics of the actresses’ feelings. The show lasted for 10-12 minutes in total. What is happening to the performance right now, are you developing it? Yury Didevich is planning to bring the technologies as well as the acting to perfection together with ITMO…

  21.07.2017

• How a Russian Teenager Cracked Nation's Largest Social Network in His Spare Time

  …related to gaining access to private data, but this isn’t something I can talk about as of now. So this vulnerability that you found in VK and ICQ and which you received a total of $3000 for - was there a real cause for concern about it? How did you find it? I’ve been working on this problem for two days but in total it took me ab…

  21.07.2017

• ITMO Researchers Seek to Improve MOOC Effectiveness

  …Five years of MOOC The term MOOC (massive open online course) was coined in 2011 by professors from the University of Stanford. In five years, the cash flow total for MOOC-provider companies has reached 400 million dollars and more than a thousand people were employed in that industry. Each year saw growth in the number of courses, too – just two years ago, 1800 n…

  11.07.2017

• Andrey Stankevich: Komsomolskaya Pravda’s Media-Person of the Year

  …ing – a massive and complex event. The university’s team had won and their coach Andrey Stankevich was already gone the next day to work at the youth summer school in IT. The total attention that Andrey provides to his students is common in many well-known coaches; for instance, Irina Viner, whose students gather acclaim in rhythmic gymnastics or Tatyana Prokrovskaya…

  10.07.2017

• Cafe Society: A New Wave of Urban Coffee Culture Hits the Streets of St. Petersburg

  …style cafetière. If that all seems way too barista-geek for you, the bottom line is it makes the coffee taste *really great.* And on the confectionary front, Welcome has a total surprise up its sleeve: mini-macarons in flavours never even thought possible. There is Parmesan, which has just the tiniest hint of crumbly Italian Parmigiano-Reggiano, and Dor Blu, which…

  06.07.2017

• French Master's Student on Coming to Russia and Differences from France

• ITMO Celebrates Graduation Day In Style

• Teen in Tech Workshop: Best Projects by Young Developers

  …rab objects of different sizes. Yet, if one could use a humanlike hand, grabbing any object would be of no problem. "We've decided to alter the manipulator, and now it’s totally anthropomorphic - it copies a human hand. We've also changed the control method: instead of joysticks and buttons, we proposed using a 3D sensor. As of now, we already have a working pro…

  30.06.2017

• EVA Saint-Petersburg: New Applications Of VR/AR Technologies

  …t Adding multimedia technologies to the communication between a visitor and the exhibit is becoming all the more widespread. According to specialists, it is convenient and totally safe for the exhibits. A good example of that is the use of holographic displays. For instance, Jürgen Sieck and his colleagues have created a hologram of an exhibit - a pyramid, and add…

  29.06.2017

• Geek Picnic-2017: Richard Dawkins, Cyborgs, VR and Psychological Experiments

  …ey have genes that make them do so. Such genes are hereditary. Still, there are beings like termites. The termit queen is of great size in comparison with common termites, is totally helpless and is protected by worker termites. These termites are sterile. Yet, the gene that makes them protect the queen stays within their "brothers" and "sisters" that are born from t…

  25.06.2017