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• ITMO University Participates in Personal Digital Certificate Program

  The courses by ITMO University helped over 350 students of various majors acquire new knowledge and skills in big data, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.

  29.12.2020

• What’s Behind the Renewed Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Program

  The Robotics and Artificial Intelligence program (previously called Robotics) is aimed at training specialists working at the intersection of two fields. Read this article to learn why robotics is so important for AI and vice versa, and what sociologists and programmers are to do in this program.

  22.12.2020

• ITMO University Student Wins One Million Rubles at Sberbank Competition

  Daniil Tsimerman, a first-year student at the Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems, was ranked first in the Junior category at AIJ Contest. The online competition was organized by Sberbank as part of the AI Journey conference.

  14.12.2020

• First Year Student Daniil Kazantsev Presents Project at Sberbank Conference on Artificial Intelligence

  The Artificial Intelligence Journey conference took place online on December 3-5, 2020. The event is among the world’s largest discussion platforms on artificial intelligence.

  07.12.2020

• ITMO University PhD Student Rodion Yuriev on Business Development and Self-Confidence

  The Neuroscanner company became a winner of the All-Russian Festival of University-level Technological Projects by the Higher School of Economics. ITMO.NEWS talked to its founder Rodion Yuriev, a PhD student at ITMO's Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems.

  26.11.2020

• ITMO Highpark Joins New AI-Focused Science and Education Center

  ITMO Highpark, the university’s upcoming second campus in the satellite city Yuzhny, has joined a scientific and educational center within the framework of the NOC project. This center will be engaged in studying artificial intelligence in industry.

  10.11.2020

• Why Teach Robots How to See? Nine Burning Questions About Computer Vision

  How does a driverless car distinguish between pedestrians and trees? And how can Face ID tell whether it’s you or a thief logging into your phone? These and other tasks are tackled by specialists in the field of computer vision. In this article, Sergey Shavetov, associate professor and deputy dean at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics, explains whether a robot or an AI can be taught to see the world as a human being, why it is so hard and what will happen when it is finally possible. 

  19.08.2020

• AI vs. Nanotechnology: ITMO Scientists on What Tech to Expect in the Near Future

  The online project Stay The F Home Bar launched almost concurrently with the start of the pandemic. One of its virtual rooms, called I Speak You Listen, is designed as a venue for open lectures. ITMO University scientists recently tried out this new format; on May 7, George Zograf, PhD student of the Faculty of Physics and Engineering, and Andrey Filchenkov, head of the Machine Learning Lab, took part in an open talk during which they discussed the near future of AI and nanoscience – and whether we should fear them.

  13.05.2020

• Crossing Single-Celled Organisms With AI: ITMO’s Art & Science Students On Interdisciplinary Art Experiments

  The BIOROBOTY 019 team consists of four students of ITMO’s Master’s program in Art & Science: Alyona Korolyova, Marta Mikhailova, Viktoria Romanova and Svetlana Sidorova. In their work, they combine bioart, robotics, neural networks and artificial intelligence in various unexpected scenarios. Their project Physarum the Fortuneteller, first exhibited at The International Media Art Festival CYFEST-12, was chosen to become part of a major collaborative exhibition to take place in France. ITMO.NEWS talked to Viktoria Romanova, a member of the team, and asked her where the idea to combine bioart with robotics came from and where it has led the artists. 

  25.03.2020

• Machine Rights: Can an AI Create And How Should Its Creations Be Protected?

  News about a court in China ruling that an AI-written text had to be protected by copyright has been circulating online, causing a lot of heated discussions for a couple of days. Can a machine produce something not unlike the creations of human imagination? Can a robot without feelings come up with something original? And how should we protect something created by an algorithm from being copied? ITMO.NEWS got in touch with Dmitry Muromtsev, the head of the international laboratory “Intelligent Information Processing Methods and Semantic Technologies”, and Tatyana Mynka, a lawyer, to get to the roots of the problem at hand. 

  20.01.2020