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• HACKATHON 2025: Innovations for Cities of the Future

  …: Team RCAS (Security) proposed an IoT system for residential buildings. The automated system will let house management, government bodies and construction companies control the infrastructure within a set territory (buildings, public spaces, adjacent grounds). Team Ruby (Education) presented a project for continuous education through VR. Using the developers…

  06.02.2018

• Andrey Sebrant On Machine Learning, Public Confidence and Relevant Education

  …ts in any machine learning system. It is something that is even more trivial than the recognition of medical images. At the press-conference dedicated to the launching of Korolev (a new search engine by Yandex -- Ed.), we mentioned that we associate a 300-dimensional semantic vector with every request made. And here’s the problem: one can easily explain what a 2D …

  06.02.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …anadium dioxyde: A revolutionary material for tomorrow's electronics. First came the switch. Then the transistor. Now another innovation stands to revolutionize the way we control the flow of electrons through a circuit: vanadium dioxide (VO2). A key characteristic of this compound is that it behaves as an insulator at room temperature but as a conductor at temperatu…

  06.02.2018

• Meduza Publisher on Living in the Era of Bad News

  …too, can be helpful. All news are somewhat virtual; they rarely affect us directly. What happens around you is only as relevant as you decide, so this is something you can control. On the other hand, you still have to be aware of things. And gamification is one of the ways to do that. Explain things A journalist’s task is to help us solve the issues we all …

  01.02.2018

• ITMO Researchers Team Up With French Scientists on New Type of Hybrid Nanoparticles

  …o breakdown under the effects of, say, heat. This problem was recently brought up in an issue of Science [Vol. 458, Issue 6366, pp. 998] in regards to the possible ways to control probes sent to study the surface of Venus. It’s an extremely hot planet, and so none of the transistors we have today would work there. So what materials and data analysis methods do we nee…

  01.02.2018

• How to Start Your Own Business: Advice from Experts

  …ntrepreneur can waste all funds on attracting sales, and fail to find additional investments if there would be none. If a startup has an investor, the investor strictly controls the fulfillment of predictive metrics. If something goes wrong, the startup can change its general concept and test new hypotheses. If a startup works on its own, without help from an expe…

  31.01.2018

• Here's How ITMO's New Academic Degree System Will Work

  …ning to a new system, the university will have to think about forming an expert community. It would involve representatives of major universities and would serve a supervisory role, assessing the decisions made by individual universities and thesis boards. Two leading universities – the Moscow State University and St. Petersburg State University – have been operat…

  29.01.2018

• InfoWatch President Natalya Kaspersky: New Technologies Pose Cybersecurity Threats

  …into account at all. But risks exist and they are especially critical on a nationwide scale. Why? Natalya Kaspersky mentioned several problems: The government cannot control bitcoin. While the foreign exchange market is regulated by the central bank, the government cannot regulate bitcoin since it is decentralized, and no one regulates it. Transparency of tra…

  24.01.2018

• Tatiana's Day: Russia Celebrates Its Students

  … pubs with open air games: snowball fights, skating and drinking hot and alcoholic drinks. After the revolution of 1917, in which former and current students played a major role, this tradition practically vanished. A series of wars and revolutions turned Students’ Day into a thing of the past until the first massive students’ enroll…

  23.01.2018

• Climate Change: What the Future Holds