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• Head of Greenhouse of Social Technologies on Making the Best of AI

  The role of technology grows with each passing day, but what about the public awareness of our ability to control its consequences? At an open lecture dedicated to the topics of comprehension, transparency, and accountability of digital systems that took place in St. Petersburg, Head of the Greenhouse of Social Technologies Alexey Sidorenko spoke about both the advantages that AI offers and the potential dangers associated with its development.

  27.02.2019

• ITMO Scientists Analyzed Gaming Behavior to Predict Players’ Gender

  ITMO University researchers managed to determine players’ gender based on the data garnered via an online gaming platform. In this, they were one of the first to apply machine learning to analyze a large body of gaming data. The innovative approach has the potential to improve the personal recommendations system for a more targeted offering of games. It can also be used to detect gaming addictions. The research was presented at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

  07.02.2019

• Digital Trends of 2019, Part Two: Combined Intelligence, Personalized Content and 5G

  At the end of the year, tech companies look back on 2018 and make predictions for 2019. The past year was marked by advances in AI, major data privacy scandals and countless ups-and-downs of bitcoin. But what about the near future? Let’s take a look at the key predictions for the digital world of 2019. You can read the first part of the article here.

  04.01.2019

• ITMO University and NEC Corporation to Cooperate on Development of Infocommunication Technologies

  ITMO and a leading Japanese telecom company NEC have signed a cooperation agreement, which stipulates that a state-of-the-art laboratory and data processing center will open at the University. The new institutions will focus on the development of infocommunication technologies in the fields of artificial intelligence, telecommunications, and the Internet of Things (IoT), including the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). More on the future cooperation in this article by ITMO.NEWS.

  29.12.2018

• ITMO University and VR/AR Association Host Japan VR/AR Day in St. Petersburg

  With more than 16,000 members around the world, the VR/AR Association is the world’s largest community of developers and entrepreneurs in the field of VR and AR. Last week, ITMO University hosted this year’s third VR/AR Association meetup, dubbed the Japan AR/VR Day. Among the event’s speakers were representatives of major Japanese companies in the field of innovative technologies. They spoke about the varied applications of virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies, as well as their potential when combined with technologies such as artificial intelligence. The meeting was organized in collaboration with ITMO University’s Educational Center of Graphic Technologies and Center of Usability and Mixed Reality. 

  29.11.2018

• MTS Lead Architect Mikhail Mishurovsky on Collaboration with ITMO

  About a year ago, the MTS company started focusing on the development of AI-based products. A research group was formed as part of this new direction. The group’s specialists create virtual assistants, incorporate AI technologies in medicine and office management, as well as carry out two joint projects with ITMO University. Mikhail Mishurovsky, the lead architect of MTS’s AI research group, gave an open lecture about the company’s key projects in the field of artificial intelligence, the collaboration with ITMO, and the specialists of the future. ITMO.NEWS publishes the highlights of his speech.

  29.11.2018

• Pop-Science Cinema at ITMO University

  Popular science movies are gradually gaining popularity both in Russia and abroad. On November 20-21, the Days of Science Cinema were held in Russia for the fourth time. ITMO University also participated in the festival with two films about artificial intelligence and an artificial star. ITMO.NEWS asked the event’s coordinators about how to organize your own film festival and why watch science movies in the first place.

  26.11.2018

• New York University Professor’s Take on Future of Digital Cities

  Stanislav Sobolevsky is an Associate Professor of Practice at New York University (NYU), the Head of Urban Complexity Research Group and a co-founder of the Insight Data Labs consulting studio. His research interests include machine learning and Big Data, network analysis, human movement modeling, and the theory of differential equations. During his open lecture at ITMO University, he talked about a new scientific field, urban informatics, and in particular what issues it deals with and how it helps make cities more livable.

  13.11.2018

• ITMO Scientist Vladislav Gromov: We Want to Make Robots Help People, Not Replace Them

  On October 14-18, the Sirius educational center in Sochi hosted as many as two prominent events for young scientists and engineers: the summit ‘Big Challenges for Society, State and Science’ and, as part of that, the Congress of Councils of Young Scientists. These proved to be particularly successful for ITMO University’s Laboratory of Intelligent Technologies in Robotics, which won the ‘Best Practices’ nomination. Vladislav Gromov, a research associate at the laboratory participating in the events, shared with ITMO.NEWS on how he liked the warm and sunny Sochi, why make robots more intelligent, and what projects the state is ready to provide funding for. 

  24.10.2018

• Project RENOIR and Digitalization in the News Industry

  Digitalization has an impact on countless areas of human activity, changing the way we work. Mass media is no exception: news agencies’ day-to-day operations have adopted the use of artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge tech. Last week, ITMO University hosted a lecture by Aljoša Rehar, head of the digital strategy department at the Slovenian Press Agency, who spoke about digitalization in the news industry and project RENOIR, developed by members of the media and the academia (Warsaw University of Technology, Stanford University, and others). ITMO University joined the initiative in June 2018.

  11.09.2018