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

  …frame into blocks and then search for similar blocks in the previous decoded frame. Then, instead of compression of each block itself (as in JPEG), we compress the difference between the current block and a similar block from the previous frame as well as the displacement or motion vector between these blocks. In MPEG-2, this search was…

  26.03.2019

• Plastic Cards from Magnetic Stripes to Apple Pay: How Payment Industry Changed Over 70 Years

  …rying to pay with your card stateside. There is also a third track, but it isn’t used by the payment systems at all. Instead, its usage is freely defined by the issuer and network where the card is applied in. Apart from that, this track is also re-recordable. Some banks try to employ it to store loyalty IDs or co-branding, but on the whole this technology became …

  26.03.2019

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

  …ve any plans for future collaboration with ITMO University? Of course. For instance, we are currently discussing the opportunities for conducting Erasmus+exchange programs between ITMO and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies. What’s more, me and several St. Petersburg scientists are working on a few research topics that will generate  highly significant resea…

  25.03.2019

• Text Like a Russian

  …Business hours.  In Russia, work generally starts between 9 and 10 am and wraps up around 7 pm, so this is when most people can be expected to respond to business-related phone calls and text messages. Afterhours has to be an emergency, a previously-agreed conversation or a relationship where you've seen each other without makeup. Texts and messengers. The consens…

  25.03.2019

• Russian Physicist Alexey Melnikov Awarded the Prestigious Cozzarelli Prize

  …um device,” comments Alexander Alodjants. The results of the work have been published in the article “Detecting quantum speedup by quantum walk with convolutional neural networks”. “In January, we completed the paper where we showed that machine intelligence learned and proved itself able to function as an export telling where to expert quantum speedup and …

  25.03.2019

• University of Pretoria Scientists on Applications of Metabolic Analysis

  … combinations of biologically active substances is more preferable from a scientific standpoint. Thanks to evolution, there are whole families of every plant. The differences between their components are often minimal, but knowledge of them can help create drugs with maximum efficiency. According to Jacobus Johannes Marion Meyer, metabolic analysis helps test …

  22.03.2019

• Augmented Reality Course at Oxford Brookes: Participants Share

  …e that you’ve learned to easily understand English speech. What about the differences in the educational process? Yulia Trushina: At Oxford Brookes, there’s no distance between students and lecturers. Everyone is considered a participant of the educational process, and there’s no hierarchy. For example, while in Russia we have different canteens for students an…

  21.03.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 23-24

  …rtists’ works of such scale in Russia, it features over 100 paintings, drawings and lithographs, telling the story of Frida Kahlo’s life and art, and the complex relationship between the two iconic Mexican artists. At the core of the exhibition are the most famous Frida Kahlo’s pieces: The Broken Column, Henry Ford Hospital, and Self-Portrait With Monkey, accompanied…

  20.03.2019

• What Are Vernacular Regions and Why Study Them?

  …for local communities. There are several different ways of doing that; for instance, by mapping different communities that are associated with a particular location in social networks,” comments Alexandra Nenko. Another method of studying vernacular regions is working with Big Data. Social media can also help researchers to analyze the areas that are not outline…

  20.03.2019

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

  …the university and security officials. The University of Waterloo hosts annual conferences and showrooms of their equipment in order to create a platform for communication between professionals in various fields. Students are also encouraged to participate, so we got a chance to share the results of our projects with other researchers. Though it was summer and mos…

  19.03.2019