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• ITMO University Hosts Its First What? Where? When? Tournament

  …ne. Why did the soldiers enjoy being down in the gondola, despite a higher risk of being hit by enemy fire? Answer: As the airships ran on hydrogen, the crew couldn’t smoke inside them. That’s why the soldiers would often come down to the gondola for a smoke.…

  21.12.2022

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 24-25, 2022

  … arrive 30 minutes before the session you want to attend (here’s the schedule) and leave a 1,000 ruble refundable deposit for the skates. On the other side of Nevsky Prospekt, inside Dvor Gostinki, you will find another ice rink, open 10:30 am to 11:30 pm, with prices ranging from 200 rubles to 500 rubles during the day (you can also rent skates for 350 rubles). Catc…

  21.12.2022

• Passing Exams, Writing Papers, and Describing Art: Why Neural Networks Won’t Replace Scientists, Writers and Journalists

  … network art critic Nevertheless, such text generators still have their uses – especially seeing how much useful and relevant information is included in their datasets. For instance, a neural network can be of assistance when selecting literature, analyzing entire scientific fields or philosophical concepts. Andrey Getmanov confesses that GPT-3 helps him to better…

  20.12.2022

• A Guide to Winter Trips from St. Petersburg

  …ed streets and castle of Vyborg, a town by the Finnish border with Swedish ancestry. Just as close to another border lies Pskov, one of Russia's oldest cities. If kremlins, monasteries, and other traces of centuries-long Slavic history are your cup of tea, you’ll definitely like it there.  Exploring the city’s neighborhood doesn’t have to be all about…

  20.12.2022

• ITMO Launches Open-Source Mentorship Program

  …lso rely on these technologies in their work. However, they often need assistance from professional software developers in these endeavors. At the same time, the university trains IT students who would definitely benefit from practical training during their time at ITMO; for instance, they can accomplish that by joining projects develop…

  20.12.2022

• Top Projects of ITMO’s First FoodTech Accelerator

  …, which placed second in the foodtech accelerator competition, is dedicated to solving this issue. The team behind it came up with an idea of a biodegradable hydrogel that retains water while releasing nutrients like a slow-acting fertilizer, simultaneously improving the soil’s pH. By soaking up water, the hydrogel will keep the roots from having to burrow deep under…

  19.12.2022

• Contractor Named for Second and Third Construction Phases of ITMO Highpark

  … architect of ITMO Highpark and its first construction stage. ITMO Highpark is a world-class research, education, and innovation center in the satellite city Yuzhny, Pushkinsky District, St. Petersburg. The complex will become home to an academic campus for Master’s and PhD students, a tech valley, and a business park for technology companies. The project is imp…

  19.12.2022

• The Future of AI: ITMO Scientists Present Cutting-Edge Projects

  … a team of ITMO’s National Center for Cognitive Research triumphed at Emergency DataHack thanks to FEDOT – an open-source automated ML framework for creating and optimizing chains of models (pipelines) or their elements. With this framework, users can also solve a variety of problems, from flood prediction to multimodal classification of wines.  Not so long ago, r…

  16.12.2022

• The Results of ITMO’s First Large-Scale Study of Quality of Life in Academia

  …ties to do sports at the university. Besides, we’d like to study the lesser-known yet no less crucial health conditions, such as eating disorders and chronic eye diseases. For instance, we use a special mobile fundus camera to obtain appropriate images of the fundus and eyes to study eye diseases in an academic environment. We hope that the university’s expertise in …

  15.12.2022

• Student Spotlight: Arafat Rahman, Bangladesh