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• From Entertainment to Medicine: Programmers Presented their Projects at AI Hackathon

  …embles her. The second one can detect a nationality by analyzing portraits of people. Other developers presented apps that generate sophisticated comments to photos on social networks, apply filters to images making people look like famous writers, and so on. There were also serious projects. The programmers from "Sindicator" made a hybrid intelligence system, whi…

  14.03.2017

• ITalented: the New Course for IT Students

  …se the development speed, thus decreasing the probability of a project's failure. How does it work? Agile approaches relieve many risks thanks to a more active interaction between team members and customers. Two-week development intervals — the so-called "sprints" - make creating a product a lot easier, as it can be frequently reworked based on feedback as opposed…

  14.03.2017

• The More Chocolate the Better Test Results — What Really Helps to Prepare for Exams?

  … It is a myth that chowing negatively affects memory skills. The only thing that makes troubles is when we don’t want to study leaving the memory empty. Is any correlation between chewing and memorizing? There are two points of view. According to the first one, chewing a gum increases short-term memory and mental alertness. For instance, researchers from Cardif…

  13.03.2017

• New Material Makes it Possible to Record Data with Light

  …in quantum mechanics, scientists have introduced a concept of quasiparticles. One of them which is called exciton is an "electron — hole" pair, which provides energy transfer between photons and electrons. According to the scientific community, this mediation of quasiparticles will help to combine optics with electronics to create a fundamentally new class of equipme…

  10.03.2017

• Those Who Code: Female Programmers on Gender Issues in IT

  …ronina I'd like to think that most people in our profession are free from stereotypes, yet there can be different situations. I remember a situation when a girl was chosen between two equally capable programmers — just because female programmers are rare, and they give edge to any team. Yet, unfortunately, sometimes it happens the other way. Nadejda Ratskevich,…

  08.03.2017

• It’s Hard to Be a Superhero: Rector Vladimir Vasilyev Shares Some Life Tips

  …rns into it himself. About failures I have a lot of strategic gaps. These are failures that affect the life of the University. I believe that I haven’t been able to build a network of alumni. I haven’t created a family where graduates could come and feel connected with the University. I set this task for myself about 5 years ago. So I’ve been sailing without a sail…

  07.03.2017

• American Scientist’s Experts on Scientific Standup Shows and Singing Dinosaurs

  …partment of Energy. I studied and analyzed government solutions related to renewable energy sources and worked as a science communicator in this field. I started using social networks to share about activities of the Department and what happens in the field of energetics in America. Social networks is the main platform for sci com. Medi…

  06.03.2017

• Gutenberg’s Lounge: Human-like Intelligence or a Spotless Mind?

  …ter play some new games for the first time, or automated machine learning systems that can "train" so as to solve unknown tasks. The main trends Such technologies as neural networks including deep learning algorithms that are now used for various purposes, correlate with the concept of General AI. For instance, differentiable neural computers that are a new methodo…

  06.03.2017

• Social Media Algorithm Says Trump "Tweets Like a Bachelor"

  …l laboratory "Computer technologies", is doing an internship at National University of Singapore, where she studies approaches for describing human personality through social networks. She processes user data with this algorithm and then adapts the information to Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a scale of psychological types based on Jung theses. The scale des…

  06.03.2017

• Russia Is Better Protected Against Creationism than the USA

  …ntific, as it cannot be verified or falsified. In the new article on history of science, researchers from University of Jena and ITMO University compared how the relations between evolutionary theory and the society in USA and Russia, both modern and Soviet, formed. According to them, one can judge about these the views of citizens and the state by their school cu…

  02.03.2017