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• 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

• ITMO University Students Win NTI Competition

  …d in 2015, the Competition of the National Technology Initiative is aimed at searching for and developing talent to participate in the program for the creation of conceptually new markets and the ensuring of Russia’s global technological leadership by 2035. It’s held annually by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives and Russian Venture Company together with Innopolis …

  22.03.2019

• Augmented Reality Course at Oxford Brookes: Participants Share

  …t 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 for the whole week so that we could study their capabilities. What else did you like about the course? Yulia Trushina: They…

  21.03.2019

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

  …First news about the project started coming in as early as 2008. Back then, Tim Miller, the filmmaker visionary behind Deadpool, and David Fincher, who worked on Fight Club and the more recent The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, House of Cards and Gone Girl, expressed their interest in creating an anthology of short Sci-Fi stories. 11 years down the road, their plan has…

  21.03.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 23-24

  …etersburg, golden church domes, and delicate flower blossoms – Kustanovich’ paintings have it all. The exhibition is open daily from midday to 8pm. Admission is free. Great news for classical music aficionados out there! This Sunday, March 24, St. Isaac’s Cathedral hosts a concert of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s music to commemorate the 175th birthday of the renowned…

  20.03.2019

• ITMO Scientists Determine Impact of Probiotics on Human Gut Microbiome

  …Modern research is constantly bringing out new confirmations that gut microbiome has a significant impact on our overall health. This is why the examination of the gut’s microbial community structure and the search for ways to influence it are now among the scientific community’s most topical tasks. ITMO University researchers approach these through the analysis of m…

  20.03.2019

• What Are Vernacular Regions and Why Study Them?

  …ict spaces that people don’t want to visit or a completely indifferent to. For example, our data shows that the most “emotional” location in St. Petersburg is the island where New Holland is located. What’s more, urban scientists create maps for local communities. There are several different ways of doing that; for instance, by mapping different communities that are …

  20.03.2019