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• Artur Khanov: I Can’t Even Imagine A Profession That Gives You This Much Freedom

  …pular belief, yet in reality everything is slightly different. There’s a good book on the topic - Steven Levy’s “Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution”; it begins with a  story about some PhD students who worked under John McCarthy (a renowned American computer scientist who coined the term artificial intelligence -- Ed.). Those students once pulled a trick on h…

  07.11.2017

• Things to Do in St. Petersburg this Weekend: November 4-5

  …Festival of Lights The fourth event of this kind in St. Petersburg, this time the Festival of Lights will focus on the city’s history and include three major shows. “1917” will tell the story of the Russian Revolution, an account of its ten months from the uprisings in February to the storming of the Winter Palace. “Aurora’17” will f…

  03.11.2017

• Campus Festival: Why Data Science Is All Around Us And Why Memes Are Folklore?

  …ting facts, for example, that fewer people will watch a film if there are many people on its poster. Strange? Yet true. I’ve checked my algorithm on the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story movie and predicted that it will get 8.18 in the rankings; it got 7.9. By using such algorithms, the producers can predict whether a movie that meets particular parameters will be popular…

  02.11.2017

• Kinda Science: Festival of Absurd and Bizarre Ideas

  … Russian joke about Lenin’s fungal nature. He then called upon the scientific community to adjust the requirements for doctorate degree recipients and introduce the history of arts as a mandatory subjects for those who seek out such degrees; he also suggested to spend 10% of every grant on parasciences, form a committee on the support of pseudoscience and to…

  02.11.2017

• Chemist Artem Oganov: On Blind Spots in Chemistry and Materials of Future

  …m Lawrence Bragg, son of William Henry Bragg, who performed most of the research, received this award at 25 years of age. He is the youngest Nobel laureate in physics in its history and one of the most well-deserved. The methods for decoding the crystal structures and the lay-out that the Braggs have done are among the most important breakthroughs of the 20th century…

  02.11.2017

• Unity Day, or Who Stole the “Soviet Christmas”?

  …oviet propaganda and the general appeal of the revolutionary ideas in the 20th century. By the way, if you’re interested in the topic but do not feel like reading a bunch of history books, the American writer John Reed gave a spectacular eyewitness account of the events in his “Ten Days That Shook the World”. In any case, in Russia the November 7th (the date changed …

  31.10.2017

• ITMO University Creates First Virtual Museum of Russian Architecture

  … in Tsarskoe Selo was built starting in 1913 and until 1917 by a decree from Nicholas II. The Emperor himself approved the designs of the project that aimed to represent the history of Russian architecture from 12th to 17th century. “The emphasis was made on the Russian national identity, a very uncommon direction after the 200 years of St. Petersburg’s developm…

  25.10.2017

• Science Film for the Modern Viewer

  …bout the latest developments. I’m a physicist, and, as for my own personal preferences, I’d love to see a scientific documentary that would concern both scientific facts and history. There is a Michael Frayn play called “Copenhagen” that depicts a real-life encounter when Werner Heisenberg, who worked on the Nazi Germany’s nuclear bomb project, came to visit Niels Bo…

  23.10.2017

• CityNext Head Alexander Danilin: How Smart Tech Changes Life of Cities

  …an more accurately predict the necessary volumes and get into the narrower frame of limits, thus, without overpaying for overspending or not spending the volume. So, this is a story not only about savings, but about the reorganization of business processes. Urban residents today notice the changes in transportation, medical and administrative infrastructures. …

  20.10.2017

• ITMO Projects uHVAT and Drone Employee Celebrate Win at GoTech

  …on of the projects that the jury members of the major startup contest for Russia and Eastern Europe, GoTech, considered promising and which may one day become a global success story. During the event, four industry pitch sessions were organized: Digital Health for projects in the field of medicine (partners Medme, Teltech Capital); FunTech for projects in the fiel…

  17.10.2017