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• Business Software: Seminar at Dassault Systèmes Company

  …ir own startup, attract investments and participate in events hosted by ITMO University as a real company. For Bee Pitron and Dassault it’s not about money, but about teaching new specialists to use their products.” …

  28.03.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 30-31

  …her jazz get-together, this time dedicated to one of the genre’s most well-loved greats, Frank Sinatra. Performing his biggest hits such as Strangers in the Night, My Way, and New York, New York will be two vagrant birds from the Big Apple itself, jazz guitarist Ilya Lushtak and tenor saxophonist Todd Herbert. They will be accompanied b…

  27.03.2019

• How Sciences Falter: Historian on Dermatoglyphics and Phrenology

  …don't change over one's lifetime. You are born with a particular skin pattern and number of dermal ridges, and they stay with you for the rest of your life. There is sometimes news in the media about research that disproves it, and that these patterns can change. Still, if you read the research thoroughly, you'll learn that it had to do with errors of identification:…

  27.03.2019

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

  …s. What also took me by surprise was how automated the production process is: people are only responsible for controlling the most important steps and packaging. What was also new to me was wearing special protective clothing and head bonnets; it’s all very clean in there, an indicator of the producer’s responsibility for the quality of their products”. Opportun…

  27.03.2019

• Anecdotes: Telling Jokes the Russian Way

  …ted with them. When you’re telling an anecdote, it doesn’t really matter if everyone already knows it. In fact, telling a borodatiy ("bearded", i.e. very old) anecdote in a new or somewhat different way is much appreciated; also, knowing the same anecdotes often makes people experience a feeling of fellowship. Quotes from popular anecdotes may be used to explai…

  26.03.2019

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

  …used video coding standard. It was released in 2003 and is present in almost any existing device or video streaming service. There is an unspoken rule that every 10 years a new standard emerges that is two times better than the previous one, which means that it allows us to compress a video to half its size and retain the same visual quality. In 2013, the emerging…

  26.03.2019

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

  …About a decade ago, my colleagues and I started working on robotics research methodology. Nowadays,  still, the common way to publish results in our field is to show something new that a robot can do. For example, how it crosses a room while avoiding obstacles. But what happens if we move these obstacles and make it cross the room again? In most videos and articles o…

  25.03.2019

• Russian Physicist Alexey Melnikov Awarded the Prestigious Cozzarelli Prize

  …y Melnikov became one of the Prize awardees in physics and mathematics. He and his six colleagues received their award for their work “Active learning machine learns to create new quantum experiments”. In this article, researchers attempt to answer the question of how to accelerate discoveries in the field of quantum physics using machine learning technologies. Ac…

  25.03.2019

• ITMO University and Siemens Launch Joint Research Lab

  …n of the “Cognitive Technologies in Industrial Production” laboratory is a part of the Siemens company’s strategy for the development of digital technologies in Russia. The newly-founded research unit will focus on the development of unique industrial solutions in the field of artificial intelligence with the use of machine learning, big data analysis, and cogniti…

  22.03.2019

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