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• ITMO Researchers' Improved Text Recognition Algorithm Helps Analyze Century-Old Russian Texts

  Staff members of ITMO University’s Digital Humanities Research Center and Laboratory of Machine Learning joined their forces to teach an algorithm to analyze archival texts and identify names, titles, and addresses. Existing algorithms that were developed using contemporary texts often fail to process books and articles from the past, especially ones that are over a century old. ITMO.NEWS got in touch with the researchers to learn more about this achievement and the St. Retrospect project, a map of the city’s historically significant sites for which this research was conducted.

  27.04.2020

• ITMO’s Science Communicators Hosted a Discussion at the Total Dictation Conference

  At the end of January, Total Dictation hosted the 8th international conference in Moscow, titled “Dynamic processes in contemporary Russian language”. As part of the event, the organizers introduced the author of the text for the 2020 dictation, chose its capital and identified its main theme. Apart from that, volunteers, organizers and experts participated in the discussion on the topic “How popularization in humanities differs from popularization in natural sciences?”, which was moderated by Ilya Stakheev, deputy director of ITMO University’s Center for Science Communication.

  11.02.2020

• St. Petersburg European University’s Nikolay Rudenko on Fixing the Divide Between Tech and Humanities

  ITMO University and the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP) have launched an open lecture series as part of their new Master’s program Science and Technologies in Society. At these lectures, held throughout May and June of 2019 at the Soviet Arcade Machines Museum, scientists talk about various aspects of modern tech and science from high-tech entrepreneurship to online gaming and research, latest developments, and more. For the series’ first lecture, Nikolay Rudenko, a research fellow at EUSP’s Center for Science and Technology Studies, explained what makes humanities and hard sciences so different, what lies behind the terms techno-optimism and techno-pessimism, and how soft sciences can learn to embrace technological research.

  28.05.2019

• Moscow Topography of Terror, Geography of Holocaust and Gulag Retrospective: Digital Humanities Projects That Remind of the Horrible Past

  The field of Digital Humanities is quite new in Russia, even though such research has been conducted in the West for a long time already. Nevertheless, projects at the intersection of computer and humanities are getting all the more popular in our country. In this article, we'll be talking about several Russian and international initiatives that aim to acquaint people with the tragic events of the 20th century, such as the Holocaust and repressions in the USSR.

  23.01.2019