From Drones to Diagnosing Dyslexia in Children: The Activities of the HSE AI Centre
The HSE Centre for Artificial Intelligence, together with its partners in industry, is working on 25 applied projects in the fields of telecommunications, finance, education, medicine, etc. The results of the work by researchers and developers were recently presented at a meeting of a Russian government working group. That meeting summed up the initial results of the federal Artificial Intelligence project, part of the national Digital Economy programme.
Even a Nonexistent Medical Label Significantly Affects the Assessment of Human Behavior
Researchers from the HSE Laboratory for the Neurobiological Foundations of Cognitive Development, Alexey Kotov, Ivan Aslanov and Yulia Sudorgina, have experimentally proved that categorical labels, including nonexistent medical terms, significantly affect people's judgments, activating semantic knowledge in memory. The study has been published in the Frontiers in Psychology journal.
Russia–Brazil Academic Cooperation: We Have More in Common than Not
In May 2022, Prof. Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, conducted an online master class for early-career researchers at HSE University on ‘Research in Economics of Multi-Sided Platforms’, which included feedback on research papers on the topic. The HSE News Service talked to Prof. Ribeiro and Prof. Svetlana Golovanova, who organised the event on behalf of HSE University, about this format of academic cooperation.
HSE University Reports New Findings on Links between Job Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction
Natalia Soboleva has examined the impact of various factors on the link between job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Using data from the European Values Study, she found the association between job satisfaction and life satisfaction to vary across sociodemographic characteristics. In particular, job satisfaction contributes more significantly to life satisfaction for men compared to women, while being married weakens the association between job satisfaction and life satisfaction. The paper is published in the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.
Interdisciplinary Interaction and Commercialisation of Products: Report on the HSE TechnoShow
On May 30th, the traditional HSE TechnoShow—the final exhibition of the best works by student teams during the 2021/22 academic year project cycle—took place in the HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM HSE). For the first time since the pandemic began, the festival was held offline. Visitors to the show included not only students and professors of HSE University, but also a wide variety of interested people.
‘The Profession Must Come Naturally to the Students’
In May, Russian news presenter Ernest Mackevičius was appointed Head of the HSE School of Media at the Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design. HSE University Life talked to him about the appointment and what students and teachers can expect of their new administrator.
‘We Need Proactive Leaders’
The HSE Graduate School of Business (GSB), the French INSEAD, and Beeline University have developed and delivered a corporate succession and talent development programme for 40 of Beeline's senior executives. ‘Leadership. Accelerator. Beeline’ (LAB) is a seven-month programme combining international best practices in management competencies, customer centricity, and digital business transformation.
'People Will Never Find a Substitute for Personal Communication'
Moscow hosts 75% of the country’s exhibitions and ICEF graduate and Exponic company head Ivan Nikolsky is certain that if not for the pandemic, the profits from this sector would attract a growing number of entrepreneurs. In this interview with Success Builder, he explained what a family business is, the challenges that small businesses in Russia face and how to boldly leverage networking connections with government ministers for maximum benefit.
Eurasian Barriers: Obstacles to International Economic Integration in the Post-Soviet Space
The creation of the Customs Union and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) contributed to the development of mutual trade between their member countries. That process picked up pace significantly starting in 2019. Still, it is too early to say that the efforts by EAEU member states to achieve economic integration have been an unqualified success. This problem is the focus of a joint report that a group of experts from Russia (HSE), Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan presented at the XXIII Yasin International Academic Conference organised by HSE University in April.
The Desire to Confirm One’s Point of View Contributes to Trust in Fakes, Even Among Professional Journalists
Kirill Bryanov and Victoria Vzyatysheva, researchers at the HSE Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics in St. Petersburg, studied factors that influence people’s perceptions of fakes, as well as their ability to distinguish false information from reliable.