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• Winter Holidays at ITMO’s Museum of Optics: Cool Events to Visit

  …19th – early 20th century, as well as 18th-century engravings by Mikhail Makhaev made with camera obscura. The exhibition will be open until May 2025.  |s=1,center| Last summer, the museum was gifted one of its most bizarre exhibits: A Turning in Time, a sculpture by local artists Evgeny Dukhovny and Alexandra Yakusheva. Made from granite and glass, the sculptu…

  03.01.2025

• ITMO in 2024: Highlights of the Year

  …t, ITMO is the best Russian university in engineering sciences – not that we ever doubted that.  |s=3,center| June Another ranking, this time by SuperJob, rang in the summer: turns out, the average salaries of ITMO’s IT graduates increased again! Just the right note for the start of our admissions campaign, too, with ever more formats and educational program…

  26.12.2024

• All Kinds of AI Solutions from ITMO: Mayors, Chemists, and Boards of Directors

  …ment. For example, Digital Mayor can display schools on a map of a specific area, assess whether there are enough schools and if they are easily accessible on foot, as well as summarize residents’ complaints on various issues. Additionally, the AI assistant can answer questions about real plans for city development by referencing official documents and, using predict…

  18.12.2024

• AI Interview Assistants, Ozone for Food Storage, and “Baked” Packaging: What Are ITMO Accelerator Graduates Up to Now?

  …hich broadens the hiring pool as approximately 55% of prospective candidates are interviewed on weekends or after hours. The startup participated in ITMO Accelerator in the summer of 2024 and thanks to the program started to cooperate with medium and large companies, in addition to small businesses. The project has recently made it to the finals of the internat…

  05.12.2024

• Student Spotlight: Dorsa Abbasi, Iran

  …el a little less alone on such a long journey. How wholesome! How has the weather been for you, coming from a warmer region? It’s definitely a big change. Shiraz has hot summers that can reach 40°C and mild winters, rarely going below -6°C. Right now, I’m preparing for my first real winter with snow. It is so exciting but also a bit daunting. Wearing layers wil…

  05.12.2024

• Smart Expiration Date Indicators Developed at ITMO

  …res near the products. Moreover, they will develop a special app that, in just a few taps, would inform consumers if the product they picked is fresh.  |s=1,center| Last summer, the team became one of the winners in the second season of the reality show Passion for Grants, in which scientists from around the country compete for Russian Science Foundation grants…

  03.12.2024

• ITMO Rector Vladimir Vasilyev on Engineering Training: We Can't Just Wait for New Generation of Teachers To Appear

  … case; sometimes there aren’t enough teachers as it is. At least, that’s what we see currently in St. Petersburg. That’s why universities aim directly at schools by organizing summer and winter schools for school students or running project schools or weekend classes. At ITMO, for one, laboratory heads have regular Sunday meetings with school students to work on scie…

  02.12.2024

• Discovery of the Month: Viral Artists, Secret Courtyards, and More

• HeadHunter: Current Trends in IT Labor Market

  … is still lower than in Moscow. At the same time, there are fewer IT vacancies in St. Petersburg, which drives up the competition.  Competencies of IT professionals Last summer, the IT market saw a surge in job-seekers without prior work experience, which the Russian media christened the “junior jam.” However, the situation is changing. In August 2023, the hh-i…

  11.11.2024

• Higher, Faster, Stronger: How AI Makes Robots Smarter and More Efficient

  …g, and inefficient. In the 1980s, Prof. Hans Moravec from Carnegie Mellon University explained why vision became one of the hardest “capacities” to acquire for robots. It’s summarized in a paradox subsequently named after him: contrary to popular assumption, higher cognitive processes (such as playing chess or go) require relatively little computational resources …

  28.10.2024