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• New SAP Lab at ITMO Gives Students a Chance to Work on Real Projects

  …The German company SAP delivers software and high-tech services to large and small businesses. The company continues to improve production processes, technology, marketing and other components of any business with its own R&D. In addition, SAP collaborates with universities and research centers to create innovative projects to solve the problems of their clients. …

  06.03.2017

• Gutenberg’s Lounge: Human-like Intelligence or a Spotless Mind?

  … ITMO University Alexey Potapov It raises the following question: in what sense should we understand intelligence? If we consider it as a biological process with some chemical reactions, it means that it is impossible to create an intelligence based on computers. But, in fact, we don’t really need it. When we use this biological approach, we simplify the conce…

  06.03.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  … research tool as well as a powerful therapeutic to reverse disease-causing mutations. Why pandas are black and white. Researchers in California determined that there two basic functions of giant panda’s distinct black-and-white markings: communication — dark eye patches may help them recognize each other or signal aggression toward panda competitors, and camoufla…

  06.03.2017

• City of the Stolovaya — a Culinary Journey Through St. Petersburg’s Greatest Dining Phenomenon

  …s was a large, intimidating throng of dour female servers — recalling dinner ladies — all glowering barbarously at the row of queuing customers/victims. On display were a limited selection of unappetizing salads: basic beetroot, anemic "olivier,' marbled with chunks of processed pink meat, and the obligatory "Selyodka pod Shouboy' or "Herring under fur coat', which w…

  03.03.2017

• Russia Is Better Protected Against Creationism than the USA

  …citizens and the state by their school curricula. University of Jena. Credit: wikimedia.org Surveys show that during the recent years, the number of citizens who support introduction of creationism to the school curricula has increased both in Russia and the USA. Yet, this had effect only on the American curricula, as they are created based on the legislation o…

  02.03.2017

• Society or Scientists: Who Needs Science Communication More?

  …n’t like to serve as promoters because their responsibility is to ask and investigate. They are not ready to repeat someone’s words. To define science communication and detect its functions, one has to take this difference into account. Andrey: it is also important to keep in mind the models of science communications that were in previous times, in our case those th…

  02.03.2017

• SciComm in Russia: How Does It Work and What’s Its Future?

  …en topics. So, is "science communicator" already a profession? Yes, according to specific criteria, believes Elena Brandt. If we look at science communication in terms of the dictionary definition of profession, it is the result of the specialization of labor, it calls for special skills and training (as of now, they train science communicators not only in at t…

  02.03.2017

• VR for Medicine: from Placebo to Robotic Exoskeletons

  … this purpose scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University and Siberian State Medical University work on a diagnosis system based on VR technology. The system includes a series of functional tests. Special sensors analyze how people can adjust to changing conditions. Healthy people can do them easily without losing balance, while those with disorders lose orientation…

  28.02.2017

• Co-creation Concept: How to Manage Creativity?

  …unreal. Managing Creativity course What if I tell myself: "Yes, I am ready to solve a problem using my creativeness!", but can’t move any further. How do I move from words to action? You need to improve yourself according to a certain plan. Actually, we are going to have eight lectures for ITMO students. Every time we will pay attention to activities that hel…

  28.02.2017

• Why Design Programs: Anatoliy Shalyto on Automata-Based Programming

  … used in engineering sciences. This approach, proposed by Anatoliy Shalyto as early as in 1991, is called automata programming. This implies not only using such mathematical abstractions as automatons, but a whole new programming technology that will allow creating systems with complex behavior. It is based on a new programming paradigm, where we see programs as a…

  27.02.2017