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Sberbank’s Cyber-Security Staff on Protecting Bank’s Network Perimeter
…of an attack. We at Sberbank have also put in place a set of procedures in event of an attack on one of our resources. We inquire after the resources that are there in a specific workplace, try out different methods, and conduct an in-depth post-attack analysis. But these technological aspects aren’t the be all and end all in these kinds of situations. We shoul…
05.03.2019
Head of RN-Burenie Oil Company’s IT Department: Every Bit of Fundamental Knowledge I Have, I Learned at University
…wn called Noyabrsk, in the Tyumen Oblast. I can’t say that I had any particular occupation in mind; but I was sure that I was interested in IT. But making any decision more specific than that is tough at a young age. That’s why I only chose a general subject area and a university. From 2000 and until 2006 I was a student at ITMO’s Information Technologies and Prog…
04.03.2019
BRIDGE: ITMO Students to Help Finland’s Small Businesses
…uisites for participating in BRIDGE are one’s motivation to grow, get new experience and work with companies on an international level. With regard to the current session’s specifics, most of the participants were selected from students of the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations and the Faculty of Photonics. ITMO students will work together with th…
01.03.2019
European University’s Nikita Lomagin: How IT is Changing Historical Science
…at, we mustn’t forget that we’re talking about something more nuanced. To work with large amounts of data and use IT, historians need to do their part, too: to identify the specific groups of people and set proper goals. Otherwise, if we simply aggregate data without understanding the core subjects, we’ll distort our knowledge instead of expanding it. If you’re tryin…
28.02.2019
On-Site Round of “I Am a Professional” Competition: Participants Share
…will be the year I apply for my Master’s degree. I’d like to study on an interdisciplinary program that would bring together big data, analytics and their applications in a specific field (most likely in economics or finance). Alexander Balakin, Moscow Technological University (MIREA), educational track “Robotics” On the whole, the tasks we got at the qualifica…
27.02.2019
How Researchers Use Big Data to Fight HIV and Addiction
…rstand the latter, we need to know which mechanisms have produced this data. That’s why we need models. The “data-free” models are theoretical models that stem not from any specific data, but from the experience and knowledge humanity has acquired, and these models can be built. The classic model of an infectious disease (the Kermack–McKendrick theory) was establi…
25.02.2019
Helping Sleepwalkers, Fighting Excessive Snow and Ensuring Better Security on Campus: Best Projects by 2019 “It’s Your Call!” Participants
…Thus, the device causes a change in brain activity to prevent sleepwalking. The product proposed by students comes in the form of special software which isn’t bound to a specific device. They envisage an algorithm such as a taught neural network that would record brain activity, after which the recordings would be sent to a smartphone where a special app would res…
25.02.2019
Forbes Science and Technology Editor on Communicating Research
… interested in your invention even before you get your first investments. Such things happen if your discovery solves some really relevant problem. Let's examine several specific cases that will help you tell about your discovery to the media. Case: simplicity of narration Oftentimes, newspaper articles are written by scientists. Research articles can be qui…
22.02.2019
4SPB Hackathon: Machine Learning for Socially Significant Projects
…oped and presented a bot that can help make this process simpler. It can notify those who are looking for free food about new ads; what's more, it can come up with location-specific rankings and search for nearby offers. A user can specify a location where they prefer to pick up the food, as well as the products they are looking for. The bot browses through ads and l…
21.02.2019
Brussels, Prague and Rio de Janeiro: Exchange Students Share Their Experiences
… Organic Chemistry professor was a true enthusiast and infected us with his fervor. This was a subject for Master’s students and there were only six of us in a program made specifically for international students. During my time in Prague I had to acquire 28 credits, and so I took 6 courses with 4 days of classes. I can’t say I was under a heavy load. In my fr…
19.02.2019