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

  … works is that we know that the adjacent frames are similar and therefore we divide a frame into blocks and then search for similar blocks in the previous decoded frame. Then, instead of compression of each block itself (as in JPEG), we compress the difference between the current block and a similar block from the previous frame as well as the displacement or motion …

  26.03.2019

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

  …In order to get to the bottom of how the payment industry works, we first have to determine the meaning of these three fundamental terms: Issuer: financial institution, most often a bank, which issues cards or other means of payment. Acquirer: financial institution which is responsible for accepting the payment. For example, all P…

  26.03.2019

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

  … in 90% of cases, but they are not good at dealing with the so called ‘edge cases’. For example, when the car is halted by police. In my opinion, we have to provide additional instruments to improve their operation, like radio beacons, motion sensors, and well-established vehicle-to-vehicle communication. These can compensate for the fact that autonomous cars aren’t …

  25.03.2019

• Russian Physicist Alexey Melnikov Awarded the Prestigious Cozzarelli Prize

  …ed that machine intelligence learned and proved itself able to function as an export telling where to expert quantum speedup and where not. Imagine that you built an expensive installation (for example, a quantum simulator), but how to tell if there’s any use in it being quantum-based? This is a very important and topical question. For example, in the US, there is a …

  25.03.2019

• ITMO University and Siemens Launch Joint Research Lab

  …evices. “Siemens” has a great deal of experience in digitalization, and opening a new laboratory together with ITMO University, a leading global research-and-education IT institution, will help us apply that experience to fulfill the needs of Russian industry. This is yet another step in the development of local digital projects, which, as of today, are among th…

  22.03.2019

• University of Pretoria Scientists on Applications of Metabolic Analysis

  …le. Metabolomics methods make it possible to compare concentration profiles of different samples and break them into different groups. For example, safe and unsafe ones,” explains Jacobus Johannes Marion Meyer. The efficiency of metabolic analysis is substantiated by the history of developing antimalarial agents. Scientists spent lots of time on searching for a …

  22.03.2019

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

  … Useful tip: pay a visit to the Garden in the morning when there are not so many visitors and you won’t have to waste your time waiting in a queue. Check out the Garden’s Instagram page for more info and beautiful pics of plants.…

  22.03.2019

• ITMO University Students Win NTI Competition

  …ia’s global technological leadership by 2035. It’s held annually by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives and Russian Venture Company together with Innopolis University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, ITMO University and other major scientific and academic organizations. The competition consists of 19 education…

  22.03.2019

• Augmented Reality Course at Oxford Brookes: Participants Share

  …of teamwork, and a lot more. Alena Jigalova: We also got lectures in 3D modeling, animation, programming and mathematics. Apart from Oxford Brookes professors, we were also instructed by invited lecturers. At the end of the week, representatives of Microsoft came to the university to tell about their new HoloLens headset. What’s more, we were given these headsets …

  21.03.2019

• Love, Death & Robots: Deadpool Director’s Love Letter to Nerds

  …werewolf soldiers, robots gone wild, and blood-thirsty demons from hell. Most of that comes with an 18+ age requirement, too, so you’ve been warned. Stylistics and literary inspirations As noted by the creators of the series, they made a conscious decision to veer away from the filmmaking package of feature cinema, instead placing…

  21.03.2019