News

Topic: The Economics of Babysitting a Robot
Date & Time: October, 21; 18:00 - 19:00
Where: online platform Zoom

Gadgets have been gaining strong, and different, influence over the daily tasks of Russians: on the one hand, they reinforce our connectedness to the world during the harshest lockdown, on the other — the contact between real individuals or even generations is getting weaker. Robots help automate routine tasks, as well as learn how to make rather autonomous decisions, and yet it is unclear, who should be responsible for those decisions. The XI International Academic Conference ‘Foresight and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy’, conducted online on October 15–25, 2021, started with a comprehensive analysis studying the social effects of digitalisation.

In early October, members of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory published a paper in Language . Language is the flagship journal of the Linguistic Society of America and one of the most respected general linguistics journals in the world; perhaps the most prestigious one. Since the journal’s launch in 1925, it has seen the publication of only two papers whose first author is a researcher affiliated with a Russian university or institute.

IDLab organized an intensive two-day course from global econometrics expert Scott Cunningham

On Friday, October 15, School-Seminar "Current State and Perspectives of Atomistic and Multi-Scale Computer Modeling for Fundamental Science and Technology" was held at MIEM.

On October 14 Olga Abramova (Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Research Assistant, Center for Sociocultural Research, HSE University) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "Leadership styles, organizational culture, and personal characteristics as factors of employee orientation towards innovation in the organization".

Date: 15 October 2021 Time: 14.00 (Moscow time)