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• Campus Festival: Why Data Science Is All Around Us And Why Memes Are Folklore?

  …e was published where the author stated that Data Science and statistics are the same thing. Yet, in 2012 the renowned statistician Nathaniel Silver who predicted the presidential election results that year called Data Science an offence to statistics. Yet, specialists in Data Science need statistics. What’s more, they should also be well-versed in programming…

  02.11.2017

• Kinda Science: Festival of Absurd and Bizarre Ideas

  … did the early 20th century astronomer Percival Lowell. However, others after him found no such “canals” on the Red Planet. Therefore, the Martians must have filled them to avoid detection. Evidence 2: Martians used to affect the asteroid ring and comets from Mars, but, out of fear of being discovered, they moved to Jupiter, which is why Jupiter now influences the…

  02.11.2017

• Chemist Artem Oganov: On Blind Spots in Chemistry and Materials of Future

  …y - practically everything that we know about materials is somehow connected to the knowledge of crystal structures. William Lawrence and William Henry Braggs The X-ray diffraction method, which the Braggs used in their research, has rendered a tremendous service to science. At least 26 Nobel prizes were given for the identification of structures of various s…

  02.11.2017

• WorldSkills Russia: Why Participate?

  … you are ready to fuss over it then. As for me, I got the color marking and the control panel best. My worst “creation” was the layer assembly model. We had to do a five-layer construction from plywood and assemble it. I used stilts, and calculating the tension proved really hard, so the plywood started to split. Yet the construction st…

  01.11.2017

• Master’s Student: Why IT Specialists Need to Get Involved in Science

  …Department has with the University of Amsterdam – that’s my plan for the second year of my Master’s program. There are some nuances: to get there, one needs to pass a competitive selection and defend a research paper at the end of the semester. Moreover, the paper is evaluated not only by Russian experts, but those from the partner university, as well. What are th…

  01.11.2017

• Unity Day, or Who Stole the “Soviet Christmas”?

  …iter John Reed gave a spectacular eyewitness account of the events in his “Ten Days That Shook the World”. In any case, in Russia the November 7th (the date changed due to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar) remained as the Day of Accord and Reconciliation even after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, until it was replaced by the current Unity Day of Novemb…

  31.10.2017

• BIOCAD Expert: Building Teams in Innovative Businesses

  … What are the main criteria that define whether such a culture exists in a company? First of all, in a culture of change, everyone believes in the predictability of progress. Prediction and calculations, in turn, are the tasks of leaders. “We’re all familiar with this or that futuristic prognosis, but it is important to remember that some processes can indeed…

  31.10.2017

• ITMO Students Develop Smart Footwear for People with DIsabilities

  …The hackathon was organized by the Bezgraniz Couture company that develops functional and fashionable clothing and accessories for people with disabilities, and SAP, the world’s leading corporate software developer. In two days, participants were to come up with and develop a technological fashion project using design thinking methods as well as IoT, AR, AI technolog…

  31.10.2017

• RoboFinist Festival: Teaching Robotics to Kids

  …k with analog sticks and button controls, which lets children, once they’ve grasped the basics of programming, create their first projects. Even if they’re unable to write complex functions, they can still become apt engineers. Another important aspect of knowledge for children studying robotics are the basics of graphic design, believes Anna Korotkova, educat…

  30.10.2017

• Technophobes And Fear of New Technology

  …troverts are typically more inclined to embrace a new technology. And people who like to plan their lives well in advance, those who have a very high level of responsibility in interaction with others are less likely to accept new technologies. Da Vinci robot. Credit: www.techcult.ru Cultural factors are also important here. How much are people ready to wait an…

  30.10.2017