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• Researchers use Instagram to Help Tourists See Cities from a Local's Perspective

  …14.4 million of them in Russia. In most cases, people post photos either because it’s the first time they visited a place or, on the contrary, because they go there often. Staff at ITMO University’s eScience Research Institute found a way to distinguish between Instagram users living in St. Petersburg and visiting tourists based on how they use social media. As su…

  06.09.2017

• Students at the Crossroads: Making Life Priorities at the Personal Development Center Workshops

  …or the training is available at this link (in Russian). Large organizations have carried out studies revealing the relationship between effective work and the happiness of staff. It turns out that happy people work better, they’re ready to work more and intensively. From the point of view of the persons themselves, they had strength left on other aspects of life w…

  06.09.2017

• New English Programs at ITMO’s Biochemistry Cluster: SCAMT Students Share

  …equipment, which is totally new, especially for me, so at first I found it hard to find my way around it – when preparing solutions, for instance – but the other students and staff are always ready to help. The atmosphere here is very friendly. Yaroslav Soloviev (St. Petersburg State University) Yaroslav Soloviev My main reason for choosing SCAMT is that edu…

  06.09.2017

• THE World University Rankings 2017−2018: Results

  …of ITMO's Rankings Research Center. He adds that despite a small decrease in comparison with last year, the Industry Income indicator (a measure of income scaled against staff numbers and normalized for purchasing-power parity) remains one of the university's strong sides. We'd like to remind our readers that THE World University Rankings exists since 201…

  05.09.2017

• ITMO Student Wins Sberbank Scholarship to Develop Neural Network for Investment Planning

  … most important thing isn’t how much time they spend in the office, but how well they do their jobs. “Yet you get the impression that work there is quite intense and the staff are responsible about their tasks. When I went to the final competition, I expected to end up in a strict corporate environment, with everyone wearing crisp white shirts, things like that.…

  04.09.2017

• Breakthrough Technologies Will Soon Leave Laboratories: School Students Share Their Vision Of Future

  …f the nearest ten years: their AlphaGo program beat Lee Sedol, world champion in go - a game that was deemed impossible for an AI to master. Credit: Newtonew DeepMind's staff believes that reinforced learning can be used for a lot more than just gaming AI's. For instance, it can help robots learn to move and manipulate the objects they are not familiar with wit…

  01.09.2017

• FactoryFinder: ITMO Graduates Develop Service To Optimize Procurement

  …s and bring expenses to a minimum - and this is how we’ve developed a great service for companies from all around the world," shares Alexei Solomatin, FactoryFinder's CEO and staff member of ITMO University's Technopark.   The project was launched in 2016. FactoryFinder is a service for procurement departments' heads that allows them to automatize mundane tasks …

  30.08.2017

• Yandex Expert Shares Rules for Co-Existence of Humans and AI

  …be more skeptical towards technological progress, in some part due to a psychological barrier: they cannot imagine machines participating in intellectual activities. In 2014, staff of Wired and Wall Street Journal claimed that it would take at least 10 years for a machine to win a game of Go; yet in 2016, the AlphaGo program beat renowned Go player Lee Sedol in a ser…

  29.08.2017

• Relocation Tips: Banking in St. Petersburg

  …very new employee, and thus the wages of the employee will be transferred to that account and can then be transferred to another account if so desired. All ITMO University staff and students receive their salary or stipend as a direct deposit to their savings account with Bank Saint Petersburg. The account is opened as part of the enrollment process. Once the a…

  29.08.2017

• ITMO’s Higher School of Lighting Design Enters PLDC's Top-5 Best Universities

  … the year of its founding, CLD conducted the first festival of light culture, LumiFest, where ITMO UNiversity students showed their light installations; at the same time, CLS staff organized the second Lighting Design conference, which has become an internationally recognized event. Art & Science cluster One of the most important stages in the Higher School of …

  28.08.2017