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• Recognize Me If You Can: Can Facial Recognition Systems Really Tell How We Feel?

  …prehending criminals with the help of facial recognition technologies when they were detected among thousands of unsuspecting people. In 2017, the Chinese police apprehended a wanted person after surveillance recognized him at a concert among a crowd of 70,000 other people. In the UK, such services have been used since 2016. This May, the London Policing Ethics Pa…

  02.08.2019

• Camp in Programming: Intense Problem-Solving

  …line. He previously tried competitive programming which he really liked. He had heard about ITMO’s impressive reputation, and considered it to be a unique opportunity. He also wanted to visit Russia, so it all worked out.  The participants of the program were surprised by its intensity. A good chunk of the program is actually practicing to solve programming sets a…

  01.08.2019

• ITMO University Presents Its 2018 Annual Report

  …at is evident from the yearly statistics. St. Petersburg's landmarks, vistas, and people are all part of the city's cultural code, written in part by ITMO University. “We want this annual report to serve as your guide into the world of a university that is truly a part of St. Petersburg,” say the report’s authors. This year’s Annual Report is split into sec…

  31.07.2019

• ITMO Master’s Student on Her Exchange in Barcelona: Tips, Tricks, Impressions

  …ademic exchange program in Chile, that the competition was pretty tough, especially among those willing to go to Barcelona. The thing is that Barcelona was exactly the place I wanted to go to. Last summer, before applying to the competition, I spent a week there and I felt that the city was just perfect for me. Already back then, I realized that I would like to spend…

  31.07.2019

• MIT Professor Marin Soljacic: AI Will Play a Large Role in the Future of Research

  …search Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, for quite some time now. Are you interested in future collaboration with Russian scientists? What kind of research would you want to work on together? Pavel is one of the many people doing some great work here. We already do some research together with the research staff at ITMO University. Charles Roques-Carmes, …

  30.07.2019

• Speak Like a Russian: Getting Around

  …ou should know. When in the city, it is easy to find a route to your desired destination by using an app (such as the ever-popular Yandex.Maps), but if you enter a vehicle and want to check whether it goes there, the easiest way is to ask “Я доеду до (name of the place or stop)?” - “Will I get to ...?”). One good thing about doing so is that the conductor will often …

  29.07.2019

• Results are In: Online Round of ITMO University’s CtF Competition CyBRICS Comes to an End

  …016. The competition is organized by  ITMO University (Russia), SiChuan University (China), NIT Warangal (India), IIT Kharagpur (India), Wits University (South Africa), and Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa). According to Danil Zakoldaev, a member of the organizing team and the dean of ITMO’s Faculty of Secure Information Technologies, the main goal o…

  29.07.2019

• Results of Mendeleev 150 International Conference at ITMO University

  …e – to make science accessible to a wide audience,” comments Mikhail Kurushkin. A total of 300 participants from Russia, the US, the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, Israel, Taiwan, China and other countries came to St. Petersburg to take part in the conference. Opening the conference was Jordi José, an astrophysicist at the Technical University of Catalonia in…

  29.07.2019

• ITMO Urban Studies Specialist Participates in Major Urban Planning Conference in China

  …location for their projects. We’re now also working on an app for building interesting pedestrian routes. For example, you come to St. Petersburg from a different city and you want to explore the area in the vicinity of your hotel but you don’t know where to go. Our algorithm works like an online map, but the routes it offers are not the shortest ones but the most in…

  26.07.2019

• Chief Editor of Nature Photonics Oliver Graydon on Russian Science, Researcher’s Path and Ways to Start Publishing in World’s Leading Journals

  … time I have been to Russia, to St. Petersburg and ITMO University in particular. Visiting Russia has been very important for me, for several reasons. First and foremost, I wanted to get an idea of Russian science’s developments in the field of optics. As of now, I am not yet receiving enough information about contemporary Russian developments, and I would like to…

  26.07.2019