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St. Petersburg Scientists Propose Prototype of New Infrared Visualizer
… converted into visible radiation of 500 nanometers in length, the one that is greenish-blue in color. This principle works for radiation in a wide range of wavelengths, which solves the key problem of many existing IR visualizing cards – their non-versatility and spectral limitations,” notes Vladimir Fedorov, a senior research associate at Saint Petersburg Academic …
12.08.2020
Gennady Korotkevich Continues Google Code Jam Streak With Seventh Win
…the entire competition. The first prize is $15,000. The participants who are placed 2nd and 3rd place receive $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. The competition involves solving a set of algorithmic problems within a fixed period of time. This time, there were five of them. Gennady scored 173 points, having spent less time on solv
10.08.2020
Russian Teams Took First and Third Place at Sports Hacking Competition CyBRICS 2020
…st from the five BRICS countries. This year, we set a new record: some 1,503 teams compared to 1,188 last year. What’s more, 786 teams participating in CyBRICS 2020 managed to solve at least one task, there were 775 such teams last year.” The first place went to the team corruptedpwnis, which consisted of students and graduates of different Russian universit…
10.08.2020
What’s Next for the Self-Driving Cars Market?
… everyone. But in reality, self-driving transport will be subject to many technical and infrastructural questions. Philosophy of mobility Philosophy is not a way to solve questions, but a way to identify problems. Elon Musk’s ideas could be interesting when talking about cars of the future. He once claimed that about 95% of all road accidents are cause…
07.08.2020
ITMO University Co-Hosts Machine Learning Cup for School Students From Samara
…e learning, neural networks, and text recognition are widely represented in educational literature. For that reason, kids at some of the more advanced schools learn Python and solve applied problems. We chose machine learning and text recognition to show how machine learning, which some might see as abstract, really works. We invited Arkadiy Krivosheev, a staff membe…
06.08.2020
OverPro: ITMO Graduate On Launching Business in Esports
…layer game, you play with opponents of the same level. This is one of OverPro’s main features – being able to advance your skills with more powerful players. This way, we help solve two issues: the less experienced players can quickly advance their skills by playing with professionals, and professionals can earn money with their skills. Soon, we’ll add a shop with…
06.08.2020
ITMO Graduate on Doing His Master’s 20 Years into His Career and What Came of It
…tory – I was engaged in the research of phonograms of speech signals. We analyzed the recordings and identified the speakers, examined the phonograms for signs of editing, and solved other diagnostic tasks. I was invited to join the Speech Technology Center as an expert on identifying people by their voices. At that time, there were no neural networks or machine l…
05.08.2020
How Algorithms Help Design Drugs: ITMO Graduate Aleksandr Sadovnikov On Developing Bioinformatics Software
…s of development at BIOCAD. He invited several students, me included, for an internship. We were given tasks that had more to do with structural biology, but the approaches to solving them were that of mathematics and analysis. We had to analyze data and do modeling. In my third year, I did another internship at BIOCAD, which had more to do with programming: the comp…
04.08.2020
Russian Scientists Suggest Device to Make Breast MRI More Effective
…ercial product “We’ve been conducting research in the field of applying new artificial materials in MRI scanning for more than eight years. This research started with solving a fundamental task that led us to the highly interesting multifaceted world of MRI. For the last couple of years, we’ve been focusing on transitioning from fundamental research to devel…
04.08.2020
ITMO Physicists Discover Way to Achieve Stimulated Raman Scattering in Isolated Silicon Nanoparticles
… research in this field and improve on our existing results. I assume that my Bachelor’s thesis will also focus on stimulated Raman scattering, so I’ll put all my efforts into solving this task. I think I’ll continue my studies by getting a Master’s at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering, so it’s great to already know what my research plans are,” says Daniil Ry…
03.08.2020