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• Song of the Month: March 2019

  …his Way by Lady Gaga After listening non-stop to Shallow for the past month, this is my new fave because to me it’s about how true love never dies and the chemistry of a real connection is a gift and an experience worth living for. Vasiliy: A Man With A Plan by KORPIKLAANI Though it’s only early spring, all I can think about is the long May holidays and …

  29.03.2019

• Urban Change Week in St. Petersburg

  …remost, about economic development. If we don’t create a working economic model of the city’s development, we risk either turning into a tourist ghetto or suffering decline and destruction. To achieve this goal, one has to have a clear understanding of the processes going on in the city. Then we’ll need to create digital models of these processes, and that’s where IT…

  29.03.2019

• Get to Know ITMO's Robotics and Control Specialists

  …describes most models of mechanical systems. But sometimes it becomes a huge monster in order to describe some complicated examples. And it is pretty useful because it describes the action of the system, which is necessary for control. Worst autocorrect mishap? – At one event, they gave me a name tag with my name written as “Vladi love” instead of “Vladislav” due …

  28.03.2019

• ScienceMedia Forum Participants on Their Work and Modern Journalism

  …n the final website. At the hackathon, we were given a task to create a feature about Diakont, which is an enterprise specializing in ensuring security of knowledge-based production plants. One thing they do, for example, is developing robots that find their way into the pipes supplying gas or water to houses, and inspect them. These robots can get into the ba…

  28.03.2019

• Business Software: Seminar at Dassault Systèmes Company

  …bator Collaboration Program is an open innovative entrepreneurship network. Apart from access to the company’s software, participants also get an opportunity to establish useful connections with the company’s industrial partners, as well as the company’s support in bringing their products into the international market. For Dassault, this program is an opportunity to …

  28.03.2019

• How Sciences Falter: Historian on Dermatoglyphics and Phrenology

  …mple here is getting scarred. By the way, what’s the purpose of dermal ridges? There exist two hypotheses on this issue. The first implies that dermal ridges improve the traction with a surface of any object that we hold in our hands. Patterns on the palms of capuchin monkeys have a similar purpose: they help them grasp tree branches better. On the other ha…

  27.03.2019

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

  … but wonder how it all works from the inside.” The factory ITMO University students got to visit focuses on personal hygiene products and household cleaning goods. In their production process, they use cutting-edge equipment, including a smart drone able to carry heavy loads. According to the company’s staff, one of their main goals at the moment is to achieve m…

  27.03.2019

• Anecdotes: Telling Jokes the Russian Way

  … story about a real incident or person”;that was once the case with the Russian language, as well. But starting in the early 20th century, its meaning changed, and anecdotes became fictional short stories told for the purpose of having a good laugh. This also marked the beginning of their unceasing popularity. So, what is it that makes anecdotes different from reg…

  26.03.2019

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

  …oving some of the algorithms that make up these codecs. In 2013, I participated in the Grand Video Compression Challenge (San Jose, CA, USA), where I got a finalist award for the reduction of H.265/HEVC video bit streams by about 0.5-1.5 % without a rise in complexity. How are these codecs and algorithms evaluated? There are a number of standard tools used to e…

  26.03.2019

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

  …either represented by US payment systems or rather specific payment systems like Unionpay International, which is, while on one hand international, bases practically all of its transactions in China. There are also national payment systems that managed to breakthrough to the international market, such as the Japanese JCB. By tally of transacti…

  26.03.2019