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ITMO University Researchers Test Innovative Pharmacy Refrigerator
…ientists keep developing more and more complex medications, vaccines and preventive treatments. A lot of these products are difficult to produce, they are synthesized under specific temperatures and thus must be transported and stored carefully. All of these steps, however, can be negated if the tube with the treatments is placed in a broken refrigerator at a pharmac…
30.04.2020
Radario Founder and Former ITMO Student Anton Bryantsev on Skills for a Successful Startup
…role of a founder, a leader, a CEO, this calls for systemic thinking, the ability to formulate goals and tasks clearly and to be a good judge of character, and soft skills. Specific technical skills are needed to have a general understanding of what’s happening, but you can’t build a business solely on their basis. What criteria do you use when hiring people …
28.04.2020
ITMO Researchers' Improved Text Recognition Algorithm Helps Analyze Century-Old Russian Texts
…ects – a table, a chair, a tree, a ship – that either interact with each other somehow or are simply mentioned. These are just entities. Named entities are ones that have a specific individual name: someone’s full name or address, a name of an organization, the name of a ship. When we say “ship”, we’re referring to an entity; but when it’s “the ship Maria”, it’s a na…
27.04.2020
“Digital Against the Crisis”: Experts On Market Changes After Quarantine
…ange and complete it several times faster than they planned. “It has become necessary to quickly do some things that we couldn’t decide on doing for a long time due to specific risks. We digitized everything that wasn’t digitized in just a week. This wasn’t hard from a technological standpoint: most issues required an executive decision, and the crisis prompted …
27.04.2020
Online vs Offline: How to Find Common Ground With Students as a Teacher
…dents have legitimate grievances or simply disagree with your stance on a subject. A conflict between the student and the teacher is still a form of communication, albeit a specific one. Disagreements are bound to emerge in the learning process, and arguments pave the way to their resolution; in this case, a result achieved through conflict will be much more importan…
23.04.2020
Scientists Show a Way to Create Optical Chips and Solar Cell Details from Perovskite
…Perovskites are a class of materials with a specific crystalline structure. They were first discovered in the first half of the 19th century in the Ural region as a mineral that consisted of calcium, titanium and oxygen atoms. From then on, perovskites were applied in both nonlinear optics and the manufacturing of semiconductors. Now, they are rapidly winning the gro…
23.04.2020
Over 2000 Participate in ITMO’s Online Congress of Young Scientists
…em, and new conceptual approaches to the development of various forms of conferences, forums and congresses. Some of the participants of the IX Congress of Young Scientists specifically expressed their gratitude to ITMO University’s management, for the opportunity to present online, for the tactful and respectful attitude of the jury members to each participant of th…
22.04.2020
Speak Like a Russian: Corona-Inspired
…let’), which generally translates as “to be ill”. Its other use has a completely different meaning: in Russian, rooting for some sports team or even being interested in one specific sport means that you “болеешь за” - are literally ill with it. For example, the word for a football fan is футбольный болельщик - roughly “someone footballishly diseased”. Don’t confuse i…
20.04.2020
MTS and ITMO Launch Master’s Program on Conversational AI
…ots make use of this technology. As part of the new specialization, ITMO students will develop systems for speech recognition, generation and analysis of noise, and acquire specific knowledge that will let them participate in joint research in collaboration with MTSy and develop various applications for modern AIs – such as dialog assistants, voice command interfaces…
20.04.2020
Zooniverse: Help Study Polar Animals While Staying at Home
…hard to tell an egg from a stone, but that just boosts your interest. By the way, you don’t have to register to participate, but if you’re willing to share comments about a specific photo with the associated research team, you have to create an account, which takes less than a minute. After dealing with penguins, you can switch to counting seals. This task is …
17.04.2020