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Video Games vs. MBAs: How Gaming Makes You a Better Employee
…to win. If you want to lead a team, you have to explain your point of view to a group of strangers. So you can acquire great leadership skills”, explained Miroslava Valkevich. Role-playing games such as World of Warcraft are especially efficient, added Ms. Valkevich. This is confirmed by other research. A new study by researchers at Missouri S&T found that World…
03.04.2018
Startup Pallium Promises Smarter AI
…rtificial intelligence. How exactly? If you develop algorithms (in this case, agents), you create the agent yourself and write a smart contract for it. A smart contract controls how the agent interacts with its environment, as well as how it changes its internal decision-making system. This way if the incoming data structure is specified in the contract, the agent…
30.03.2018
Dean of Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics Anton Pyrkin Named “Professor of the Year”
…hat IT is guaranteed to always have a market, that there would be room to grow, assert yourself and make a career. I applied to the Faculty of Computer Technologies and Control; I didn’t really know what the word “control” meant, but I liked the sound of it. Only later did I realize how many layers there were to it. Still, I chose it…
30.03.2018
Russian, German and French Scientists to Collaborate on Nanowhisker Research at European XFEL
…es are built on a territory of 15 hectares. XFEL's grand opening ceremony marked the launch of the first two experiments in which X-ray free-electron lasers will play a key role. With the first experiment scientists have shown how it is possible to study fast reactions, particularly the interaction of certain molecules with an aqueous medium. The second experiment…
28.03.2018
ITMO Scientists Develop Topological Defect Detection Method
…ariants lie at the core of many important observable properties of matter. They are incorporated in the creation of new, unusual materials, which are used, for example, to control light propagation in optical systems. To detect topologically non-trivial structures, scientists usually scan the propagation of an object’s near-field. In other words, they monitor an o…
28.03.2018
Telegram Messenger: a Short Guide to the Hit Russian App
…k and as demand for the currency increases. The idea is to create a new virtual world with a wide range of digital and physical goods being bought and sold, but with no controlling institution in the middle selling your data and tracking your every move across the web. "Telegram users are really at the epicenter of the whole crypto boom," Ryan Gilbert, a partne…
27.03.2018
How to win a Vladimir Potanin Scholarship
…tive upon yourself when in a team. Remember that if you do nothing, you get nothing. Olga Bantus, second-year Master's student at the Department of Computer Science and Control Systems I didn’t apply for this scholarship last year when I was a first-year Master’s student because I didn’t know much about the competition. But this year I realized last minute …
27.03.2018
itmo.ru: The Best Birthday Present
…rent approaches, a different programming methodology. At 25 years old and at 35 years old, people are in unequal conditions, but at 35 you can usually take on a leadership role and expand your skills. Experience of consolidating and building a team, vision of a project goal and having the ability to set tasks, in turn, is not related to time. You can apply these …
26.03.2018
Dmitry Volkov vs. Tatyana Chernigovskaya: Superintelligence and Living Machines
…get more freedom, more opportunities to move around and so on. The third (most disturbing) goal that artificial intelligence will have is an instrumental goal, which is to control resources. This goal could become disastrous for humanity. Even if intelligence has the ultimate goal of calculating Pi, then for its realisation it will need to cont
26.03.2018
5 Science News Now
…A new interactive map shows climate change everywhere in the world. The map draws on five decades of public meteorological data recorded from 50,000 international weather stations around the Earth and allows students or researchers to compare the climates of places anywhere in the world. New device harvests water from dry air. The system, based on relatively new h…
26.03.2018