St. Petersburg leading daily business newspaper “Delovoy Petersburg” (St. Petersburg Business) served as a platform for the discussion. The journalists proposed the experts to discuss the artificial intelligence (AI) future in Russia, particularly, how technologies of the kind will change the country and business, what professionals will be highly demanded by the market and what spheres of activity will be mostly subjected to AI influence.

Scientists of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS) have developed a program that ensures a cybersecurity of automated water treatment monitoring systems at industrial enterprises and municipal services. For the program’s “learning” the scientists have developed the first in Russia training stand to acquire and monitor data from wastewater treatment plants operating under regular conditions and under cyberattacks.

Researchers of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS), based on a survey of farmers over three regions in the Northwestern Federal District, established the relationship between the sustainability of the development of organic agriculture in these territories and the terms of economic activity in the agricultural sector. The results of the study are available in the proceedings of the International Conference on Agriculture Digitalization and Organic Production(ADOP).

St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS), St. Petersburg State University and Sberbank have opened a master's program for training specialists in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly, for a development of intelligent transport infrastructure management systems in the Arctic. Already the first year students, within the proposed program will be involved in real research and production projects of SPC RAS and Sberbank.

Researchers at the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS) and St. Petersburg State University have learned how to target the delivery of drugs curing the skin diseases by quantum dots. The specificity of the therapeutic compound is that its biological activity is triggered by a laser. The proposed method has been successfully demonstrated through laboratory models. The results of the study were published in the scientific journal Nanomaterials.

Scientists of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of RAS (SPC RAS) have developed a specialized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) “Voron”, that allows for quick expanding the wireless coverage area of a certain territory from the air. The above development, in particular, can be used in an area outside the main telecommunications infrastructure, for example, for running rescue and search operations.

From October 11 - 13, Vladislav Donchenko, Chief Researcher, and Alyona Kodolova, Acting Deputy Director for Research of SRCES RAS – SPC RAS, took part in the meetings of the Expert Council on Ecology and Environmental Management at IPA CIS, the Standing Commission of the IPA CIS on Agrarian Policy, Natural Resources and Ecology, as well as the International Forum "Sustainable Development of Mountain Territories".

Scientists of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of RAS (SPC RAS) have developed an application intended to assist companies and recruitment specialists (HR) in improving the quality of interviewing the sales managers based on video interviews’ analysis. The application allows for recording a video interview, while the recording topics to be covered by an applicant are displayed on a screen, then the video is processed by a pre-trained neural network, and metrics are calculated that specify the applicant's ability to sell.

Unmanned aerial vehicle developed at SPC RAS aimed at processing agricultural lands in order to suppress weeds has successfully passed field tests in the Novgorod Region. Two TV channels of the Novgorod Region took part in filming.

Dear Colleagues: 5th issue of Volume 22, 2023, is published on the website of the "Informatics and Automation" Journal.