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• Vladimir Lumelsky On The Future Of Robotics: An Open Lecture At ITMO University

  … fact that the robot can't think as a human and feel what's happening around him. Surely, the invention of industrial robots is robotics’ colossal success. This industry's total volume is 40 billion dollars a year. Some forty years ago, cars were painted by people in harsh conditions of an assembly line. Now, there's no plant in the world that uses human labor for…

  01.06.2017

• ITMO and Newtonew Announce Winners of First “Physics: the Game of Light” Online Contest

  … the problems and then, after each stage was complete, post the videos on their YouTube channels that they linked to in their accounts on the game’s website. Results In total, more than 800 highschoolers from all over Russia participated in the online-game; 145 of them recorded themselves on video to compete for the 10 bonus points. After reviewing the results,…

  31.05.2017

• Champions of ACM ICPC-2017: ITMO University’s team returns to St. Petersburg

  …ck: the team from University of Warsaw and the other frontrunners – teams from Seoul National University and St. Petersburg State University, who won the contest last year. A total of 130 teams took part in the international championship, 13 of them representing Russia. “Many competitions and training sessions were held throughout the year in which our close…

  30.05.2017

• Clothing Made From Bacteria, Electronic Tattoos, And Latest Virus Threats: What We’ve Learned at the Campus Festival

  …, everything he’s wearing has been printed on a 3D printer just that morning, and will be dissolved into raw material in the evening, so as to make it anew. All of this seems totally sci-fi like. Yet, it's all almost here. Modern technologies already turn our clothing from the simple protective shell they are meant to be into a complex interface. Such costumes bec…

  30.05.2017

• Digitally Immortalized: How the Solovetsky Monastery is Finding a New Life in Virtual Reality

  …ook of the entire Solovetsky monastery complex. The results will be made available to the public using a multimedia information service, accessible freely on the internet. In total, about 20 experts from both parties are involved in the project. A virtual tour of the Solovetsky monastery. Credit: solovky.ifmo.ru ITMO University’s team is no strangers to virtu…

  30.05.2017

• Science Fest: Growth of VR, Functional Food and Why Humanity Will Always Return to Earth

  …ce Fest was visited by a special guest – the Soviet and Russian airsports athlete and astronaut Sergei Krikalev, who, from October 2005 to June 2015 held the world record for total time spent in space (803 days over six missions). Instead of giving a lecture, he decided to talk to the festival’s visitors and answer some of their questions. ITMO.NEWS wrote down some o…

  29.05.2017

• Campus Festival: How to Learn About Science at a Bar

  … Gasometers? For the second half of the lecture Varvara Lymar, an expert for “Beautiful Petersburg”, spoke about the issues of St. Petersburg’s modern industrial areas. In total, 12 speakers spoke at seven venues this Friday. These are employees of St. Petersburg’s universities, founders of high-tech companies, physicists, sociologists, art experts and urbanists; …

  29.05.2017

• Big Data and the Russian Dream

  …y own eyes…. one day, I was walking home and I saw a very drunk guy walking with a bottle in his hand, and then I saw him throw the bottle into a dust bin, even though he was totally drunk, he still had some sense.” With his eyes lit up, Ali began to describe the food: “Food here is cheap! Macdonalds is really cheap, in Pakistan a big mac is about 300-400 rubles, …

  29.05.2017

• Find Your Piece in the St. Petersburg City Day Puzzle

  …ion to see! Among other amusements, there will be different games, workshops on folk art, and exhibitions; if you like diving into different cultures, the Nationality Ball is totally a must-see. Sweet Piece: Ice Cream Fest and Street Food Festival  What’s more there is to say? It will be like a sweet tooth paradise! The event will take place on the Ostrovsky Sq…

  26.05.2017

• “White Night of Technology”: How to Ensure Cybersecurity and Teach Neural Networks to See

  …eputation, etc. Although the hackers themselves didn’t gain much from the attack, claim experts from McAfee. As of now, their bitcoin wallets have received 302 payments for a total of USD 116,000. Analysts believe that their main intention was not profit, but publicity. Enterprises such as FedEx, Renault, Nissan, the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonice, 48…

  26.05.2017