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• Healthy Living: Instagram Accounts for Vegan/Eco Inspiration

  Instagram can be compared to a very hectic flea market sometimes, with its disorientating abundance of colorful stalls, shouting people and a huge no-go trash area. (Twitter, on the other hand, is more like a fancy social club for wordly-wise wits and raconteurs, with a rampageous madhouse on its ground floor.) But as any flea market, it’s also peppered with little gems finding which makes the whole kerfuffle a little bit more tolerable. So here are some of our picks of Instagram accounts for vegan and green living inspiration!

  15.11.2019

• Recognizing Personality by Face and Controlling a Loader in VR: ITMO’s Pre-Accelerator + Highpark Participants at the Innovation Forum

  Five teams from ITMO Pre-accelerator + Highpark presented their projects in front of Japanese IT experts at the St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum. Among these projects were a new digital platform for construction works and an optimizer for browser bookmarks and files storage. ITMO.NEWS saw the presentation and learned about the products that still need to be developed and the ones that might shortly become available on the market. 

  15.11.2019

• University of the Future: Russian and British University Officials Discuss Trends in Education

  This Thursday, ITMO University hosted a meeting of university officials from the UK and St. Petersburg, a follow-up to the First Forum of Rectors of Russian and British Universities that was held in Moscow. The key event of the day was a round table discussion on universities of the future. The participants talked about the best educational practices and ways to attract talent while discussing possible collaboration in the field of student academic mobility.

  15.11.2019

• ITMO Master’s Student on Passion For Tech and His New Project

  From Pazardzhik, Bulgaria to Sunnyvale, California and then all the way to St. Petersburg, Russia, Master's student Iordan (Danny) Krastev tells us about what it's like to be a successful IT freelancer who keeps on learning.   

  14.11.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 16-17, 2019

  Venturing outside of one’s house doesn’t seem that much of a dotty plan with this weekend’s program, which includes an exhibition dedicated to well-loved Soviet cartoon characters, a festival of thought-provoking eco cinema, a swish artisanal market and a groovy concert of electronic music!

  13.11.2019

• Participants of Google’s STEP Internship Share Tips for First-Timers

  For some years now, ITMO students have been regular participants of Google internships. To them, it is an opportunity to experience for themselves how it feels to work for one of the world’s most recognizable corporations. We got in touch with ITMO students and Google interns Vadim Brilyantov, Ilya Bizyaev, Viktoria Erokhina and Anastasia Postnikova to ask them about how to land a dream internship and how the time they spent at Google changed them. 

  13.11.2019

• Big and Small: Changes that Shape Life in St. Petersburg

  Cities are living organisms. How's ours evolving? We asked around and got some diverse opinions. 

  12.11.2019

• What’s Inside: Microsoft Developer Talks Computer Architecture

  This Tuesday, Andrey Artemiev, a software engineer at Microsoft, gave an open lecture at ITMO University. The developer talked about his career and described the principles that are at work inside the computers that we use every day. Read on to learn the key points of the lecture. 

  12.11.2019

• Leading Experts Look Into the Future at ITMO International Council’s 11th Meeting in Israel

  This weekend, ITMO University’s International Council has gathered for its 11th session in the buzzing city of Tel Aviv, Israel. The members exchanged their opinions and expertise in discussing the meeting’s keynote topic, “Towards ITMO’s 2021-2027 Roadmap”, explored the ways of attracting new talents into the University’s distinguished academic staff, and made a visit to one of ITMO’s partner institutions in Israel, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, as part of the event’s vibrant cultural program.

  11.11.2019

• ITMO’s Robotics Team Wins Silver at World Robot Olympiad 2019

  The 2019 World Robot Olympiad, an international robotics competition for talented school and university students from over 70 countries, has just come to a close in the city of Győr, Hungary. Led by coach Igor Lositsky, ITMO University whizzes took second place, surpassing more than 30 teams in the Senior High age category. They presented their project LEGO Education Helper, a smart table that cleans itself.

  10.11.2019