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• How Sciences Falter: Historian on Dermatoglyphics and Phrenology

  …ence on innate abilities of humans”. You might think that it focuses on exposing pseudosciences and advising against dealing with chiromancers. Instead, I’ll be explaining why promising trends in science falter times and times over, all because of intolerance to criticism and human ignorance. We’ll use two pseudosciences as examples: dermatoglyphics that studies huma…

  27.03.2019

• Scientist Evgeny Belyaev on the Challenges of Video Encoding, Limits of Compression, and Future of Streaming

  …with European and American institutes or companies. When I was a student at the St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI), we had a number of very prominent scientists working in Information Theory there. In the USSR, there were two schools in the field, one in the Institute for Information Transmission Problems in Moscow, and another one…

  26.03.2019

• Professor Fabio Bonsignorio on the Need of Reproducibility of Robotic Research and the Future of the Economy

  …, like radio beacons, motion sensors, and well-established vehicle-to-vehicle communication. These can compensate for the fact that autonomous cars aren’t smart enough. Promoting research reproducibility will help solve those issues, as well. Today, scientists in our field do lots of research on science and technology: they test hypotheses, systems and algorit…

  25.03.2019

• Russian Physicist Alexey Melnikov Awarded the Prestigious Cozzarelli Prize

  …g research thematics. The laboratory specialists don’t spend their time solving routine engineering tasks but look towards the future; they’re interested in developing new and promising methods and approaches. The laboratory works in a wide, interdisciplinary field which, as I see it, has a lot of potential in terms of not only obtaining lots of qualitatively new, fa…

  25.03.2019

• ITMO University and Siemens Launch Joint Research Lab

  … learning and cognitive technologies and ensure Russia’s leading position on the respective global markets. “We see our induction into the consortium as an innovative and promising step forward in our long-time fruitful partnership with ITMO University. We believe that the results of our joint R&D projects will help us successfully complete the goals of the NTI …

  22.03.2019

• Augmented Reality Course at Oxford Brookes: Participants Share

• Gold Nanoparticles and Canadian Science: ITMO Student’s Internship at University of Waterloo

  … it was summer and most students were on vacation, we still had an opportunity to socialize a bit when visiting a free student gym, swimming pool, the city library, and even a prom. Doing research at the University of Waterloo means interaction with lots of people from different countries, religious and social groups. This is a perfect place to master patience…

  19.03.2019

• Science Communicator Daria Dvorzhitskaya on How to Measure the Effectiveness of Science Pop Events

  …why I plan to share my developments and implement them in other projects I’ll be part of. What formats of scientific events aimed at the general public do you deem the most promising and why? There are lots of different formats in Europe, from science festivals to science fairs and markets. There are science centers, science museums, and even science cafes. Mo…

  19.03.2019

• Personal Branding in 2019: the Do’s and the Don'ts

  …n 2016, but today the number is steadily growing. Vying for attention User-made posts on Facebook elicit 6.9 times more reactions than ones posted by brands. When you’re promoting a personal brand, you compete for attention with other individuals, brands, adverts and much more. What is a personal brand? Your personal brand is a set of perceived images…

  15.03.2019

• Physicists Proposed Fast Method for Printing Nanolasers From Perovskites

  … did not give enough control over the synthesis. Therefore, among the main advantages of this new method are not only high speed but also good “controllability”. This makes it promising for industrial adaptation. Researchers currently plan to optimize the fabrication of nanolasers for industrial production and integrate nanolasers with waveguides to create optical ch…

  14.03.2019