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• VK Hackathon Winners: Using New Tech to Run Online Communities

  …munities , so the main task of developers was to create an application for a particular community. All of these applications are stored in the official directory of the social network , which now contains 15-20 applications. VK aimed to expand this catalog. "We presented our project using a VK page. We created a test community and placed our application in it. T…

  08.11.2017

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

  … to do such things, but not me - I don’t like the idea of coding such things for days and even years. I have a Cisco certificate, yet wearing sweaters and uniting routers into networks for the rest of my life is not my idea of a promising future. DEFCON You’ve made it to Skolkovo on your third attempt; how did you motivate yourself after the first failures? …

  07.11.2017

• KronBars Tops List of Russia's Best Student Sports Clubs

  …o account in the evaluation of clubs in the ranking. Awareness-building efforts, such as the number of references in the media, photo and video reports, activity in the social networks and other activities, were also taken into account. "Our club is developing in all directions, that's why we are not only organizing sports events, but also engaging in "side"…

  03.11.2017

• COMSOL DAY: Tractor Beams, Optical Traps and Nanoparticle Manipulation

  …an be positioned with better precision by modulating the properties of both the beam and the surface. Interference between surface plasmon-polaritons and propagating electromagnetic waves can be used to create nanoobject grids on metal surfaces with various, even anisotropic parameters. This approach can thus be used to implement a new method for optical self-organiz…

  03.11.2017

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

  …ctions, calculate probabilities, arrange documents and the like. For instance, one has to predict the popularity of an emoticon that looks like a cat in a particular social network for a particular time span. How can this be done? First, it is necessary to study the data we already have, i.e. data on the emoticon’s popularity for the previous period. Then, we calc…

  02.11.2017

• Kinda Science: Festival of Absurd and Bizarre Ideas

  …d and are widely considered to be pseudoscience. Homeopathy’s extraterrestrial origins The government is hiding from us the existence of aliens bent on conquering our planet. This is a fact that cannot be disputed, says Maria Borukha, an astronomer who also organizes educational events for the St. Petersburg State University. Why is this indisputable? Eviden…

  02.11.2017

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

  …ecome a trillion times more powerful, we still can not solve this problem through simple enumeration. Hafnia crystal structure as predicted by USPEX. Credit: researchgate.net But this does not mean that it is impossible to solve this task. That can be done in a different way. Imagine a multidimensional complex energy surface on which we need to find the lowes…

  02.11.2017

• Master’s Student: Why IT Specialists Need to Get Involved in Science

  …upervisor. Besides, if we do need to meet in person, I can simply come to St. Petersburg for day’s visit. My work has to do with analyzing how information propagates in social networks. Later on, once I have some solid results, I might expand the subject or continue the work in a related area of study. What is the best way of combining work and a Master’s educ…

  01.11.2017

• BIOCAD Expert: Building Teams in Innovative Businesses

  …resumes of potential candidates on various web resources. She then calls those who she deems fitting for the job and conducts a preliminary interview: the self-learning neural network can recognize human speech and maintain a dialogue. If the interview is successful, the robot sends a job description to the applicant and redirects them up the chain to a human HR mana…

  31.10.2017

• Technophobes And Fear of New Technology

  …e interested in electric vehicles and home 3D printers, they are ready to wear any smart sensors of health, use a personal assistant based on artificial intelligence and use genetic diagnostics, but they are against implantable sensors and microchips, even if those can expand human capacities. Most negatively they perceived various invasive technologies that expand p…

  30.10.2017