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• 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

• Researchers Are on the Way to Obtain First Chemically Synthesized Metamaterial

  …cture comprising of iron clusters linked by organic ligands. The most apparent property of the resulting material is its giant porosity, which provides numerous active centers inside the crystal for the implementation of catalysis, gas sorption, separation and transport of substances. However, the scientists proposed to look at such structures from a completely diffe…

  02.08.2016

• Airborne Troops Day

  …rborne Troops will be also functioning during the festival. There is also an informal tradition to this festival – the bathing of troopers in many of St. Petersburg’s fountains. The city authorities have been trying to stop this tradition on a yearly basis (last year some of the fountains were turned off for this holiday), but, as th…

  02.08.2016

• Game Theory: “Game Core” to Make People Play and Give Back

  …at a computer. “Games are evolving. They become more and more useful. Education and training practices is only one of possible areas to which one can apply games. For instance, “EyeWire” was developed to create 3D map of eye retina’s neurons. Instead of games with some useful functions currently one discusses gamification of co…

  02.08.2016

• A Student from Iraq: “Studying in Russia was my Dream”

  … develop computer models of human’s heart work and blood flow. The research will help heart health experts analyze internal processes, make diagnoses and prescribe treatment.  Instead of 3D models I use diagrams to represent analyzed data. I work on this project in alliance with researchers from University of Amsterdam. We are the first who provide this kind of analy…

  01.08.2016

• The Master’s Program Enrollment Campaign: Bringing in Best Students and Training Elite Specialists

  …g special conditions for the students. To begin with, a master’s program implies that 35% of the study time shall be devoted to research. Our university’s status as a research institute is reflected in its many achievements, thus, we have all the necessary conditions for that. In the recently published rating of Russia’s research instit…

  01.08.2016