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• How Sciences Falter: Historian on Dermatoglyphics and Phrenology

  …The official name of my lecture is “Fingers, skull, hammer. Modern pseudoscience 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…

  27.03.2019

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

  …ean 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 was here …

  26.03.2019

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

  …earch in a new field: people are still impressed with the fact that robots can accomplish particular tasks. But as technologies develops, the necessity of applying a  rigorous scientific approach to research becomes obvious and necessary. Let’s say that I want to write an article on algorithms for obstacle avoidance. In order to do that, I will have to learn how many…

  25.03.2019

• Russian Physicist Alexey Melnikov Awarded the Prestigious Cozzarelli Prize

  …cholas R. Cozzarelli. Every year, the PNAS Editorial Board announces the list of the best research works honored by the prestigious prize. This year, the judges chose 3,000 scientific research articles that appeared in the journal last year and represent the six broadly defined classes under which the National Academy of Sciences (NA…

  25.03.2019

• ITMO University and Siemens Launch Joint Research Lab

  …ealthcare, based on the four Ps: predictive, preventive, personalized, and participatory. Another important goal of this partnership will be to train and support engineers and scientists in the fields of industrial automation, computer science, software development, and the creation of artificial cognitive systems. “Traditionally, …

  22.03.2019

• University of Pretoria Scientists on Applications of Metabolic Analysis

  …Scientists from ITMO University and the University of Pretoria focus on solving similar tasks in the field of studying effective biologically active substances. By using modern research methods and hi-tech equipment, substances can be transferred into a more stable form and used in the fields of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. For example, the staff of Biotechn…

  22.03.2019

• ITMO University Students Win NTI Competition

  …ssian Venture Company together with Innopolis University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, ITMO University and other major scientific and academic organizations. The competition consists of 19 educational tracks, each corresponding to one of NTI’s priority areas. These are aerospace systems, nanoengineering, cog…

  22.03.2019

• Love, Death & Robots: Deadpool Director’s Love Letter to Nerds

  …s are based on a particular Sci-FI short story; only two of them operate on an original screenplay. A chunky total of three episodes were inspired by the works of the American science-fiction great John Scalzi. In Three Robots, the automaton protagonist trio set about on a tour to a post-apocalyptic city long devoid of people, while the colorful story of When The Yog…

  21.03.2019

• ITMO Scientists Determine Impact of Probiotics on Human Gut Microbiome

  …as a significant impact on our overall health. This is why the examination of the gut’s microbial community structure and the search for ways to influence it are now among the scientific community’s most topical tasks. ITMO University researchers approach these through the analysis of metagenome, or data on genetic sequences of elements of gut microbiota. In their…

  20.03.2019

• What Are Vernacular Regions and Why Study Them?

  …or a completely indifferent to. For example, our data shows that the most “emotional” location in St. Petersburg is the island where New Holland is located. What’s more, urban scientists create maps 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 so…

  20.03.2019