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The pursuit of a human face: Can interfaces make machine learning accessible?

September 24, 2021

The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in various business processes is on the rise. This is evidenced, for example, by the steadily increasing media coverage, which indicates an increasing relevance of the technology. A growing number of application practices confirm the fact: the ICT.Moscow database, in 2021 alone, collected more than a …

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Russian Academy of Sciences and top university to use Big Data to analyze international relations

September 9, 2021

The Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISP RAS) and the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) have signed an agreement to jointly develop a platform for Big Data analysis in the field of international relations.  This platform will be used by students and researchers to solve applied problems of Russia’s ministry …

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Sber could issue blockchain-based digital currency as early as this year

April 28, 2021

Sber, the state-controlled financial and tech giant, could issue its own digital financial asset, ‘Sbercoin,’ as early as this year. The registration of an in-house blockchain platform, developed for this purpose, is pending final approvals from the regulator. Sber’s blockchain platform will be made available not only to the bank, but also to other companies …

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Moscow city introduces catalog of 68 smart city projects

April 29, 2021

The Moscow city authorities have made available a catalog of smart city projects conducted in the Russian capital. Intended for the international community, this catalog is published in English for the first time. Six categories are offered: human and social capital, digital government, urban environment, urban economy, end-to-end technologies, and digital technologies and communications. Each featured project …

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Moscow Metro launches contactless instant payment service with support from Google and Mastercard

December 23, 2020

Moscow Metro has partnered with VTB, a leading Russian financial institution, and Google to launch a new payment service.  Users with the Google Pay payment service and a Mastercard card can now instantly pay for their metro ride: they just need to hold their smartphone above the reader at the turnstiles.  In the near future, the new …

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Proposed EU ‘Data Governance Act’ will make data exchanges with Russia even more difficult, warn experts

December 2, 2020

As part of the European strategy for data, the European Commission proposes a set of measures to “foster the availability of data.” A part of them, published on November 25, focus on “increasing trust in data intermediaries and strengthening data-sharing mechanisms across the EU.”  These measures are aligned with the consumer protection requirements under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) …

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Moscow government experiments AI in local healthcare system

December 2, 2020

Launched almost a year ago, a Moscow city experiment to use artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies in the local healthcare system has involved more than 20 solution providers offering 38 services. The city authorities intend to involve even more providers, medical organisations and doctors, and develop new AI use cases. The city also aims …

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Russian government launches Covid contact-tracing app

November 30, 2020

As announced previously, the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation has launched an application called ‘Gosuslugi. Covid Tracker’ to track contacts with coronavirus patients all around Russia. Users diagnosed with COVID-19 must independently report this anonymously through the application. In turn, users with whom this person came in close contact in the last …

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Russian AI experts on LO-shot learning: Not really new, but promising

November 25, 2020

In October, the MIT described a new approach to training artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms: “Less than one-shot,” or LO-shot learning – which could, in theory, bring a fundamental change to machine learning (ML). An AI ​​model trained using this technique could be able to recognize even more real objects than was presented in the training dataset. In other …

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Russian government approves $2.6 billion 5G deployment plan until 2024

November 24, 2020

Last week a government commission “on digital development, the use of information technologies for improving the quality of life and the conditions of doing business” approved a 5G deployment roadmap for Russia. “The transition to 5G technologies is one of the priorities to digitalize the Russian economy, since is provides the ground for quality growth …

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From energy policies, to education, to crime investigation, Russian government bets on AI to achieve its digital transformation

November 18, 2020

The Russian government has plans to use of artificial intelligence increasingly in the framework of its digital transformation.   On November 12, the heads of digital transformation of seven federal ministries and agencies — covering energy, industry and trade, culture, education and science, cadastre, agriculture, and taxes — gathered in a “strategic session on artificial …

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Moscow’s Digital Twin project receives international ISOCARP award

November 12, 2020

The “Digital Twin” project, which allows to model the development of a city taking into account all parameters, received an award from the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP). The Digital Twin is based on a photogrammetric model of the city and an archive of panoramas of the streets of Moscow. The visual …

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