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RVC Experts: Why Entrepreneurial Education Matters
…thinking. For example, they shouldn’t “kill” a student’s idea and tell them that something is impossible; instead, they should help students knowingly accept risks, help them discover opportunities, evaluate those opportunities’ potential and make them a reality. They also have to be good at conveying information in a structured manner and moderate the educati…
16.06.2017
What is “True” Ecology?
…by activists that can help you avoid being fooled. Unfortunately, there’s yet another problem related to environmentalism – as with any trend, the general public often has misconceptions of it, and that spawns different myths. One of those is that organic products are better for one’s health than inorganic ones. Actually, being “organic” mostly has to do with brin…
09.06.2017
“Natural” AI: On the Way to Whole Brain Emulation
…ience, neuroprosthetics, artificial general intelligence and brain scanning. Carboncopies intends to organize conferences and seminars in order to stimulate interdisciplinary discourse of this concept from various points of view. The organization is based in California, fittingly, as this is the place where the most interest towards transhumanism is shown. “A si…
09.06.2017
E-Contenta Founder: How to Go Global With Your Start-Up
… content recommendation service is going to target primarily brands. This is our chief strategy that we think offers a lot of opportunities for the start-up. Yet you won’t discontinue your work in Russia. We really can’t do otherwise. First of all, we have big clients and great projects here – with “Beeline”, for instance, or “Megafon” (Net-by-Net). Secondly, e…
06.06.2017
Probability Waves Could Be Used as “Tractor Beams” to Control Nanoobjects
…. In 2015 a British research team published their findings on the creation of acoustic tractor waves. The possibility for manipulating objects through sound waves has been discovered earlier, but this project suggests using a single acoustic emitter. The scientists used 64 micro-loudspeakers that created high-pitch, high-intensity ultrasound waves. By changing the…
05.06.2017
ITMO 3.0 Reload: Battle of the Strongest
… of such a system is in bomb disposal. The team members add that now, there are similar projects, but most of them lack manipulators or a camera. A station for dehydrating viscous oil products The station for dehydrating viscous oil products is a result of the Department of Industrial Ecology and Safety's 30 years’ work. Acco…
02.06.2017
Volunteering in Summer: from Mountains of North Ossetia to the Tropics of Bolivia
… work is hard, but one only has to work no more than five hours early in the morning before the sun gets too hot. And since the farm is just an hour’s drive away from San Francisco, the volunteers have plenty of things to do in their free time. They’re also encouraged to take part in cooking meals and to share recipes from their homelands. Smoking and alcohol are exp…
02.06.2017
Vladimir Lumelsky On The Future Of Robotics: An Open Lecture At ITMO University
…ead of the robotics program for National Science Foundation, USA. Mr. Lumelsky worked in the Antarctic and the South Pole. He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin and founder-editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal.…
01.06.2017
Campus Festival: How to Learn About Science at a Bar
“White Night of Technology”: How to Ensure Cybersecurity and Teach Neural Networks to See
…ith a net-worm – the most effective method of virus distribution. Another factor is that WannaCry utilized a vulnerability that was known since March of this year. “They discovered the vulnerability in March, released a patch to fix it in April and now it’s May and we’ve got this whole spectacle. The reason is that a lot of systems, both at regular users’ homes …
26.05.2017