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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 10-11, 2021

  The spring is testing us again by making this weekend in our favorite city windy and potentially rainy. Some of us might take that as a sign to stay inside and finish their thesis (raises hand), but even this exceptionally important activity can be put aside for a while. Anyway, you will definitely feel better and more inspired after a visit to one of the events featured in our guide this week. Enjoy! 

  07.04.2021

• ITMO Teams Win First and Third Places in ICPC Semifinal

  The interim results of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) have recently been announced: the team Insert your name beat over 300 competitors for the top spot and pengzoo came in third.

  05.04.2021

• ITMO Hosts EduLeaders Best Educational Projects Contest Final

  The ITMO.EduLeaders contest is part of the university’s award for achievement in higher education. The award is meant to identify and support original educational projects, new tools and formats of teacher-student interaction. Each winner will receive 250,000 rubles prize money.  

  05.04.2021

• Bachelor’s and PhD Admissions Now Open at ITMO University

  Starting on April 1, prospective students can submit their applications for ITMO University’s Bachelor’s and PhD programs. Admissions to Master’s programs launched earlier, on February 1. Like last year, applications can be submitted online using the Admissions 2021 website. Learn more about the deadlines, changes, and special features of this year’s admission campaign in this article.

  01.04.2021

• ITMO Researchers Teach Neural Network to Tell Jokes

  Computers can outperform people in many fields – but, it seemed, not in the art of making jokes. ITMO University researchers decided to try and dispute this claim. This year, to celebrate April Fools’ Day they taught GPT-3, the world’s most powerful text-generating algorithm, to make jokes. Now anyone on the internet can test the results of their work. 

  01.04.2021

• The Future of Hard Drives: Hot Bits and Laser Recordings

  Alexandra Kalashnikova, head of the Ferroics Physics Laboratory at the Ioffe Institute and an associate professor at ITMO, has given a public talk at the Open Lectorium at New Holland Island. In an hour, she explained why we still use magnetic hard drives and will keep doing so in the coming decades. 

  31.03.2021

• ITMO University Professor Sergey Makarov Receives Elsevier’s Research Excellence Award Russia 2021

  The award is presented by Elsevier, one of the world’s largest publishing houses and the owner of the Scopus database. This year’s ceremony coincides with the Year of Science and Technology in Russia.

  30.03.2021

• Live Your Best Spring in St. Petersburg

  It’s time to start living the life we could only imagine during those long and unexpectedly cold winter months – spring is almost in its full reign in the city! For this special occasion, we have assembled a collection of ideas on how to celebrate every token of the season all around St. Petersburg. Let’s see hibernation off in style! 

  30.03.2021

• How To Teach a Computer To Interpret Text

  A team of scientists from ITMO University has created a model for an algorithm that can analyze the meaning of texts. It differs from regular neural networks because it not only takes into account word usage frequency but also introduces a category of subjective text perception. Read on to find out what it means for the future of artificial intelligence and how quantum theory is of help here.

  30.03.2021

• ITMO’s Robot Artist Learns To Earn Money Using NFT

  Researchers from ITMO’s Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies are the first to launch NFT (non-fungible tokens) for the creations of the Gaka-Chu robot artist. The robot’s pictures are already in demand – there are buyers willing to purchase tokens for the equivalent of $1,600 in Ethereum. Gaka-Chu will spend his earnings on new paints, brushes, and canvas.

  30.03.2021