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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 30-31

• How Sciences Falter: Historian on Dermatoglyphics and Phrenology

  …ping malls, and the staff advises parents to test their children so that they know which path they should take in life. Three years ago, the Committee for Pseudoscience Control of the Russian Academy of Sciences released its Memorandum 1 that focused on busting dermatoglyphic tests. In accordance with this document, we can no longer say that there's research th…

  27.03.2019

• Robotic Trolleys, Smart Drones and Full Automation: How Things Work at Unilever Factory in St. Petersburg

  …erformance. “I learned about this opportunity on the Center’s VK page and decided to give it a go,” shares Kirill Grishin, a second-year student at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics. “When hearing the word ‘factory’ you imagine all these manufacturing lines and can’t help but wonder how it all works from the inside.” The factory ITMO Universit…

  27.03.2019

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

  …ing the payments in the national currency. Local payment systems. More often than not, these aren’t about the money. For example, this group of payment systems comprises petrol cards issued for individual people or legal entities (in other words, these are cards you can only use to pay for your petrol at petro…

  26.03.2019

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

  …situation with vehicles and drones is a lot better, as they are already comparatively much more  efficient. You might not know it, but when you're flying on a plane, it is controlled by an autopilot for 90% of the flight's duration. Autonomous cars are a bit trickier. They work fine in 90% of cases, but they are not good at dealing with the so called ‘edge cases’. Fo…

  25.03.2019

• Russian Physicist Alexey Melnikov Awarded the Prestigious Cozzarelli Prize

  … on quantum principles”, an interdisciplinary project implemented within the framework of the Project 5-100, and “Machine learning for hybrid quantum processing of data and metrology”, an international project supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR). According to Alexander Alodjants, the main goal of the “Artificial cognitive systems base…

  25.03.2019

• University of Pretoria Scientists on Applications of Metabolic Analysis

  …18%.  Export of Chinese preparations amounts to 348 million dollars; the USA import preparations for 220 millions a year. In such conditions, consumers expect good quality control. Be it a preparation from the south of Russia, China or Spain, they want equal quality in every country. Today, there exist four approaches to metabolic analysis: comprehensive …

  22.03.2019

• 10 Things to Do at St. Petersburg’s Botanical Garden

  … all their varieties. 4. Marvel at cherry blossoms in May The beginning of May is my favorite time in St. Petersburg, and it’s when cherry trees are in full bloom. Stroll under the sprawling foliage of cherry blossoms and experience a touch of Japan in Russia: master the art of ikebana, play traditional Japanese games, listen to Japanese music, and attend w…

  22.03.2019

• ITMO University Students Win NTI Competition

  …ivision of labor, finishing the task was very tough. Fortunately, their uneasy burden was shared by an instructor; every team participating in the competition had one. This role was filled in by a Master’s or PhD student who helped their proteges navigate in the big university campus and solve the most difficult tasks. In case with ITMO team, this was a mutually b…

  22.03.2019

• Augmented Reality Course at Oxford Brookes: Participants Share

  …I suppose one’s experience in this field wasn’t that important: some of the participants didn’t have much background in AR. Alena Jigalova: I got the impression that they enrolled everyone who filed the application on time. Having the right motivation to deal with all the bureaucracy and get a British visa (an official invitation from Oxford Brookes was much help …

  21.03.2019