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• HackerRank Platform: ITMO has the World’s Best Programmers

  …project. There are different kinds of competitions; the last one was the University CodeSprint, where every student could compete for his university and earn ranking points by solving tasks. Besides for reputation, the winning university also got $ 5000." The recent contest gathered more than 5,500 students from 126 universities all over the world. According t…

  15.12.2016

• IT-Breakthrough in St. Petersburg: from Machine Vision to Smart Feeders

  …forest with an 85% probability. Alexander Atrashenko, a member of the jury and graduate of the Skolkovo Open University, advised him to refocus his project, as it can possibly solve the problem of machine vision that many companies work on. Andrei Myasnikov, managing partner of ITMO Future Technologies, also noted that the developers should better leave the idea of q…

  14.12.2016

• Aiming High: World’s Leading Experts on Modern Sports Programming

  …the Saint Petersburg State University team, notes that programming competitions are not only spectacular, but also really meaningful. According to him, modern champions easily solve tasks that seemed impossible some 10 years ago. The efficiency and speed the teams work with is getting better and better, and the code is becoming simpler, so now developing and testing …

  13.12.2016

• From Akinator Genii to Machine Learning: A Science Slam Participant on Detection Technologies

  …tabase I would've really liked to look at. So, the thing I've learned from Akinator is that machines can learn. That was really wonderful, as it was like the formula I used to solve math problems came alive and became a website known to millions of people. Akinator genii How do you plan to present your idea at Science Slam? The main point I want to shar…

  12.12.2016

• "Searching for Lost Kitties": ITMO student Develops an App for Finding Lost Pets

  …tures. As of now, we are yet to help anyone, so there's lots of place for improvement. We have to improve the usability, and also upgrade the search function. As soon as we solve this, we'll add other large cities to the app's geography. The most important part of our work would be interacting with users. Unfortunately, our app is not some magic: we can only find …

  06.12.2016

• Ivan Zasursky: Inaccessible Knowledge Divides Society

  …tion exchange flows prevent us from effective education. What to do to avoid going crazy? Vernadsky and Sakharov were right — knowledge has to be accessible. Firstly, it will solve issues related to the gap between social classes. Secondly, if communication is too fast, it would be better to focus on information that gives food for thought. It helps to fight with in…

  05.12.2016

• Popularizing Science: Director Dmitry Zagilevsky on Shooting Popular Science Films in Russia

  … you work on a film, you always meet new people, and each has his own story in science. I like to tell about their lives, about the complex philosophical problems they have to solve. For example, in the "Waiting for Waves and Particles", I show the work of physicists, who spent their lives on searching for gravitational waves, axions, magnetic monofields — the phenom…

  05.12.2016

• Reaching the Finals! ITMO’s Teams Do It Again at the ACM ICPC

  …tulate Vladimir Smykalov, Ivan Belonogov and Ilya Zban! Every year, the contest has the same rules: a team consisting of three programmers gets one computer and five hours to solve 8−13 tasks. This time, some 106 teams from Northeastern Europe took part in the semi-finals. All young programmers aim to solve as many tasks as it is possi…

  05.12.2016

• Startups in the Rest of Russia: How to Know about Local Business Specifics?

  …services and medicine as well. "Our University supports innovative activities in different regions of Russia. Our educational program in Sochi aims to develop economics and solve social issues. There are such projects as a service for protecting life, health and property, and also robotic devices for producing energy-saving glass and metal ceramics. About 20 teams…

  02.12.2016

• CodeХ’s Founder on Apps for the Next Generation of Media