The article by Gary Marcus Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal [1] dwells on the questions about the current achievements of in-depth training and artificial intelligence (AI). The overall tone of the work is pessimistic and tends to rethink the results, even if they are intermediate. Markus makes forecasts and writes about the possible consequences of another hype around AI technologies [2]. The article gives a vision on which direction to move while developing AI systems.

The article dwells on hypothesis of changing the “system assembly points” of the world space, put forward by the author in the course of the Ust-Kachka Strategic Community meeting for preparing a strategic scenario forecast in the PEST(M) format.

Most of the business conferences today are organized around the theme “How we realized the importance of Big Data and became the most successful in our market”. It is safe to say that since 2015, the business has been covered by a wave of so-called hype about digital technologies, and those who create these technologies have taken dominant positions in the economy structure. If we take the Fortune-100 list for the 1960s, we’ll find that about 80% of the companies on this list have ceased to exist, and one of the reasons for this is denying inevitability of digitalization.

When you write about this man, it begs the epithet the ‘first’. Indeed, the operations and methods, he first tested in practice, were then successfully implemented in the clinic. These are various operations performed in the baro-operative mode of remote control, electrical isolation of the left auricle, cardiac denervation, modeling heart defects of the blue and pale types, etc. From the newest methods – cryoablation, fulguration, laser photoablation, now widely used not only in our country, but also abroad. Leo Antonovich became a pioneer in the use of computer methods in diagnostics, in modeling pathology of the circulatory system, gas exchange, arrhythmias. He developed a new method, introduced it, and performed about 2,000 open-heart surgeries for tachyarrhythmias. How to be in time to do everything without undermining your health, how not to reinvent the wheel, but invent many useful things, and also about where love is concentrated in the human heart, and about much else – conversation with Leo A. Bockeria, director of the Bakulev Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery.

Continuing the stories of V.P. Chichkanov – the principles of life and work, basis of success and reasons for failure of the People’s Artist of the USSR I.D. Kobzon, USSR President M.S. Gorbachev, Assistant to the President of the USSR V.K. Yegorov and Chairman of Vnesheconombank Board S.N. Gor’kov.

Based on the international scale of levels of readiness of technology developed a typology of research readiness levels. When forming the priority, promising areas of research proposed to take into account the typology of research levels of readiness. It is shown that the detail stages of innovation cycle most relevant to its middle levels.

Continuation of the chronicle of events related to the Munich conspiracy of 1938.

The present article dwells on the author’s methodology of managing the competitiveness of a machine-building complex at the micro level, that is, at the enterprise level. According to the author, introduction of new progressive tools and management principles in each particular enterprise will allow not only to increase significantly competitiveness of the machine-building complex as a whole, but also to elaborate successful long-term strategy for the economy development.

In May 2018 the Decree of the RF President formulated the task: an increase in labour productivity at the enterprises of basic non-primary sectors of the economy by at least 5% per year. Obviously, key performance indicators (KPIs) of companies with state participation should include this indicator. But this is hampered by imperfection of both the methods of calculating the indicator itself and the calculating methodology for the integral indicator of the companies’ KPI. In the article, the author cites a number of inaccuracies (defaults) in the traditional calculation of labour productivity and suggests a new approach to its calculation.