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• Programming the Future: ITMO University’s 2016 Annual Report

  …MO University.  In 2016, Russia’s first office of the National Technology Initiative also opened at the university. ITMO University is a university that shares the knowledge it accumulates. Last year, it launched 15 new online courses, including a course on Science Communication which was launched at the same time as the new Science Communication Master's prog…

  25.07.2017

• Neural Interfaces as Art: How Does Neurotheater Work?

  …otlight. With the advent of technologies, people started forgetting that the person should be in the spotlight, that the technologies are just a support tool for our self-knowledge and self-expression. Before performing do you tell the audience about what they’ll see or do you just let them understand the process by themselves? This kind of genre has to be expl…

  21.07.2017

• How a Russian Teenager Cracked Nation's Largest Social Network in His Spare Time

  …d to come across it again. This vulnerability was rooted in sorting through recovery codes on the company’s test domain. So I thought: how is VK any better? I had a rough knowledge of VK’s inner workings, so it had no trouble testing it. But this is indeed not the first time I’ve tested something for vulnerabilities. There are some reports on HackerOne about that. Ov…

  21.07.2017

• World-Renowned Professors Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit on Computer Science in Life

  …mputer science. It is common that everyone considers their own work important. That is why for me the fact that my work was awarded, meant that the scientific community acknowledged the importance of our field. Nir: For me it was hard to believe. For sure the results of the awarded work that we did were great, but as Maurice already mentioned, distributed computin…

  18.07.2017

• European Hackathon Winners Came to ITMO to Study Programming

  …s, I can say that before coming we knew a bit about Russian universities and Russian programming education in general, but I also heard that Russian experts have a strong knowledge about all things related to information security. Luca Galasso Have you already had an opportunity to get to know ITMO University? Yes and we are really impressed. We talked to …

  18.07.2017

• ITMO Ranks High for International Collaboration in Management Education

  …ensure harmony and viability of the university’s educational aspect. Even today we’re implementing unique cross-disciplinary programs that intertwine IT competencies with knowledge of business and management. Among our new goals we give priority to the development of connections and search for partners in topical cross-disciplinary clusters. We want to create unique …

  17.07.2017

• Second Day of VK Fest

  …s from the Department of Engineering and Computer Graphics in collaboration with students of High-Performance Computing Department.  In one semester the students made a full-fledged VR-game in sci-fi style with three difficulty levels and additional elements. The main goal of the game is to solve puzzles to fix a spaceship and beat other obstacles (more about ITMO Un…

  17.07.2017

• “Formula for Science PR 3.0”: SciComm for the Modern Society

  …ny) and Andrey Kozhanov, Deputy Dean of the Department of Sociology at the Higher School of Economics speak of the challenges that distrust in society poses to scientific knowledge. In addition to global trends analysis, the authors also focus on the analytics that are present in Science Communication. “We pay close attention to scientometrics, the aspects of…

  14.07.2017

• Game Development Education on the Rise in Russia

  … development; people have no idea what to study, where to study, how to turn regular specialists into game development specialists. After all, while programming skills or knowledge of, say, C#, are great, important, necessary things – but a specialist has no use for them if they’re not familiar with a certain game engine. This discussion was our wake-up call, so to s…

  14.07.2017

• Blockchain: New Word in Banking

  … much more comprehensive history of a client than any government resources could ever provide” – says Alexei Blagirev. Putting clients together Banks have distributed ledgers that contain the various attributes related to an individual. Different banks’ ledgers can be compared and combined. If one bank knows 6 of the client’s at…

  13.07.2017