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• 5 Things We Loved This Week

  …Olympics inspire research. From urban pollution (Beijing 2008), to sprawl of security (London 2012), to relationships between athletes and coaches, Olympics are a catalyst for research in a variety of fields, with social sciences, medicine and engineering taking the pedestal. Nature Quantum computer getting closer. Researchers at the University of Oxford have achi…

  06.08.2016

• Gennady Korotkevich Wins Google Code Jam for the Third Time

• I, Chatterbot: Why Virtual Conversational Partners are on Trend Again

  …ovide programmers with handy APIs featuring whole sets of classes and procedures, using which the program can exchange data with the server and carry out different tasks - for instance, add new links to the interface or make electronic payments. One can also integrate possibilities of different platforms: to request access to one's Facebook account in order to find o…

  05.08.2016

• Big City Traffic Made Effective: from Paid Parking to Life-Hacks

  …ry looking at the extremities, a 100% workload is bad as well -  that would mean that we still can't park in the city center. Such things happened in Moscow and in London, for instance. On the other hand, if we've got a low workload, say, under 50%, that means that we have too much free space that could be used. The understanding of the balance will come from studyin…

  05.08.2016

• A Vegetarian’s Guide to St. Petersburg

  …rgskaya metro station. But that has now changed and changed very radically. The city is now teeming with excellent options for vegetarians and even their more picky first cousins, those pesky and demanding folk known as Vegans. Take, for example, Cafe Auroville, which is not far from Chernishevskaya metro station (Radischev Street, 5). It is not only a place where y…

  04.08.2016

• Self-Driving Cars: Safe and Modern Solution or a Step towards "Rise of the Machines?"

  … system. How it has to behave when faces the dilemma. If to remember a plot of “I, Robot” – the story starts with an accident when a robot saved from a car crash the policeman instead of a little girl because it was easier for it to save him. The policeman was saved but felt remorse. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Tech…

  04.08.2016

• Jaime Lerner: “Don't Trust Pessimists”

  …n connection between all transport systems. In 1983 we proposed this system for Rio de Janeiro. It was about how to connect subway and buses. Of course, almost everyone was against at first. However 23 years after we were asked to develop this system. Using it passengers can appear at a bus stop without leaving the subway. However I don’t want to proof that some tran…

  04.08.2016

• “Yagodnoe” SportsCamp: Social Projects and Activities for International Students

  …articipants will take part in a business game to obtain experience in project management.  Then, students will have to organize and provide different volunteer activities. For instance, to split firewood for older people living in the Yagodnoe settlement or pick blueberry, bake pies and share them with those in need. Furthermore, they will be given a task to identify…

  03.08.2016

• Bioinformatics Summer School: Where Tech and Biology Come Together

  …research projects, presented at a special conference and enjoyed presentations by Russian and overseas scientific professionals. The school was organized by the Bioinformatics Institute and St. Petersburg Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Today sequencing technologies are developing and becoming increasingly available for use in medicine, in par…

  03.08.2016

• Brain Fitness Games: Can Intelligence Really be Boosted?

  … ever study the effectiveness of games in developing human intelligence from a scientific point of view was Torkel Klingberg, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. In 1999, he conducted an experiment during which children played computer games focused on training one’s memory. As a result, the …

  02.08.2016