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  • itmo.ru: The Best Birthday Present

    …rent approaches, a different programming methodology. At 25 years old and at 35 years old, people are in unequal conditions, but at 35 you can usually take on a leadership role and expand your skills. Experience of consolidating and building a team, vision of a project goal and having the ability to set tasks, in turn, is not related to time. You can apply these …

    26.03.2018

  • Dmitry Volkov vs. Tatyana Chernigovskaya: Superintelligence and Living Machines

    …get more freedom, more opportunities to move around and so on. The third (most disturbing) goal that artificial intelligence will have is an instrumental goal, which is to control resources. This goal could become disastrous for humanity. Even if intelligence has the ultimate goal of calculating Pi, then for its realisation it will need to cont

    26.03.2018

  • 5 Science News Now

    …A new interactive map shows climate change everywhere in the world. The map draws on five decades of public meteorological data recorded from 50,000 international weather stations around the Earth and allows students or researchers to compare the climates of places anywhere in the world. New device harvests water from dry air. The system, based on relatively new h…

    26.03.2018

  • ITMO Master’s Student on E-governance in Estonia and Interning at Tallinn University of Technology

    …sport and parking space, make appointments at the doctor’s, file tax returns, apply for state benefits and even vote via the Internet. On the whole, the ID card plays a key role in using most e-services in Estonia. It allows to ascertain one’s identity and certify documents with a digital signature. The legal force of the digital signature is ensured by local legi…

    23.03.2018

  • IT-evening for High Schoolers: Sports Programming, Evolutionary Algorithms and Genome Sequencing

    …rence (Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, for instance), and our task is to “grow” this image from scratch - an evolutionary algorithm can do that. In this case, polygons play the role of species, and the adjustment is defined by how close the resulting image is to the original, though usually it is the solution itself that plays the role o…

    21.03.2018

  • Nowruz: The Start of Spring

    …Many Nations In 2010, March 21st was acknowledged as the official holiday of Nowruz by the UN General Assembly. According to the United Nations, “Nowruz plays a significant role in strengthening the ties among peoples based on mutual respect and the ideals of peace and good neighbourliness. Its traditions and rituals reflect the cultural and ancient customs of the…

    20.03.2018

  • Startups to Compete for 16 Million Rubles in GenerationS Superfinal

    …are product that allows users to create full-scale digital models, apply engineering calculations and employ various software algorithms. This technology is widely used to control the quality of production, detect errors, train new employees and present models of new products to customers. The last finalist of the GenerationS TechNet Track was A.A.C Polymers, …

    20.03.2018

  • Stephen Hawking: Life in Books

    …quired a tracheotomy, removing his remaining speech capabilities.Then his friends gave him a voice synthesizer. At first Hawking used the index finger on his right hand to control the device, but later some sensitivity was left only in his cheek muscle, and that’s where the sensor was placed. That’s how he communicated with others. The Nature of Space and Time…

    19.03.2018

  • Physicists Create Crystal Lattice from Polaritons

    …on  properties change.” Since polaritons maintain their spin rotation continuously, scientists are now able to observe polarization for a long time. Furthermore, easy control over polariton concentration in the lattice provides more options for precise management of the system. "From a fundamental viewpoint, polariton crystals are interesting in that they p…

    19.03.2018

  • Scientists Invent Method of Catching Bacteria with ‘Photonic Hook’

    …ensity of the beam, the gradient force keeps it inside the beam while radiation pressure pushes it along the curved path of energy flow propagation." Such a method of control over particles movement is promising for optofluidics. This technology uses light beams to direct micro-streams of dissolved nano- and microparticles. This allows scientists to make micro-r…

    16.03.2018