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ITMO Students Share Summer Internship Stories
Every summer, ITMO students travel all over the world to participate in internships and visit the world’s largest companies and universities. Internships have long ago stopped being simple working affairs and are now seen as exciting adventures and a way to gain unique experience. ITMO.NEWS has prepared a few stories about our students’ most fascinating summer internships – from working at Google to being a science journalist in Sicily.
26.07.2017
How a Russian Teenager Cracked Nation's Largest Social Network in His Spare Time
Ilya Glebov is 17 years old. This spring he graduated from one of the best school in Monchegorsk – a small town in Murmansk Oblast with a population of over 40 thousand people. While preparing for his Unified State Exam (USE) in computer science, he stumbled upon an article about a vulnerability in Facebook’s security system that made possible the hacking of nearly all of the accounts on the social network. He decided to try the same “trick”, as Ilya calls it, with VK. Eventually he discovered that such a vulnerability was also present in the Russian social network. Ilya was rewarded with two thousand dollars for his discovery and he received one more thousand from ICQ’s bug-bounty program after it was revealed that that platform was, too, susceptible to this method. However, Ilya will only be able to get his money after he turns 18. Right now he is planning to enrol in a university to study information security. He spoke to ITMO.NEWS about how he managed to find a flaw in Russia’s biggest social networks in between studying.
21.07.2017
Why Google Loves Kotlin and Who Needs 2000 Programming Languages
The Kotlin programming language, developed by St. Petersburg company JetBrains, has become an official development language for Android, which was announced at Google’s recent I/O 17 Conference. Kotlin’s team is led by ITMO University alumnus Andrey Breslav. ITMO.NEWS asked the experts: why did the IT giant love Kotlin so much that they picked it out of the great number of other “young” languages? And why and how are new programming languages made?
25.05.2017
ITMO Graduates Get Top Salaries
The Superjob research center published the ranking of Russian universities by the highest salaries their graduates who work in IT get. 20 universities got into the top; ITMO entered the top-3, becoming the only St. Petersburg university to get into the top-5 and shifting the Moscow State University to the 4th position.
17.05.2017
ITMO and Acronis Open New IT Lab
The new laboratory will give students the opportunity to work on tasks developed by Acronis under the guidance of the top IT gurus. Being mostly devoted to research purposes these projects can become a base for theses and scientific articles.
10.04.2017
Why 404 and How to Fix Bad Gateway?
It is a well-known disappointment when you are surfing the internet or doing some digital routine, and suddenly an ordinary click leads you to a terrific page titled with strange numbers like 404, 502 or 503. ITMO.News decided to help you understand what it means.
07.04.2017
Ten Online Courses You Won’t Want to Miss
According to the collaborative report from Coursera, Open Education and Lectorium, by the end of 2016 the number of Russians who take online courses on both Russian and foreign platforms has reached one million — which is twice as much as it was last year. In 2017, experts expect further progress of MOOCs, in both the number of users and the programs' variety; such subjects as Computer science, project management and smart design technologies will remain most popular. Here's a list of 10 online courses by world's leading companies and universities that you surely won't want to miss!
20.03.2017
Master’s Student Talks about Her IT Internship in Berlin
Kamilla Murzanova, student of the Department of Engineering and Computer Graphics, had a three-month internship in Berlin’s INNOTECH Holztechnologien GmbH. She talked about her project, lifehacks for living abroad and shared some curious stories.
14.03.2017
Social Media Algorithm Says Trump "Tweets Like a Bachelor"
Mathematicians from ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and National University of Singapore created an algorithm that predicts user marital status with 86% precision using data from three social networks (Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram) instead of one.
06.03.2017
JavaScript, С, PHP and Python: ITMO’s Master’s Students on How to Create a Website in 45 Minutes
Which programming languages one should learn to create a full-fledged website? How to do the design layout justice? And how to combine all that in such a way, that the website will look great on both a PC and a mobile device? Master's students from ITMO's Department of Computer Engineering and Design can do all the graphics and coding in just 45 minutes, and can well explain a novice web-developer how to create a modern adaptive website from scratch. What can one learn in a short time, and how to choose "your" programming language — read this and more in our article!
28.02.2017