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• New IT Specialization To Appear in Russia

  The new specialization IT Communications will be offered within the Master's program Science Communication at ITMO University. Students of the program will learn to advertise IT products and create related educational initiatives under the guidance of top-tier machine learning professionals.

  06.06.2023

• Exploring St. Petersburg: Yandex Museum of Vintage Computers

  What I really love about St. Petersburg is that it truly stands up to its “cultural capital” title – and not just because of old renowned museums like the Hermitage. New places dedicated to things other than Russian history and fine arts keep appearing in the city, and Yandex Museum is one such place.  

  02.06.2023

• Does Diploma Equal Success? Here’s What Forbes 30 Under 30 Laureates Think

  Each year, Russia’s Forbes compiles a list of changemakers, from scientists to athletes and entrepreneurs, all under the age of 30, who have made a significant impact on their field. What helped them take off? And what do their degrees have to do with that? The nation’s best and brightest professionals answered these questions at the recent ITMO Open Education conference in St. Petersburg. 

  26.05.2023

• From ITMO Student to Tech Pro: How to Land a Dream Job Before Graduation

  It’s been a year and a half since Mikhail Maltsev started working at Yandex, but he is just now approaching his graduation from ITMO. Read on to discover his advice on how students can get into a major tech company, what to expect at the interview, and how to secure an offer after a successful internship.

  25.05.2023

• ITMO and Yandex Collaborate on This Year’s ITMO Open Education Conference

  How will AI impact education? Do you need a university degree to be featured in Forbes? What is the importance of product thinking for students? And how can teachers benefit from increasing their social media presence? This year’s ITMO Open Education conference, organized together with Yandex, covered these and other questions in great detail. More than 400 school and university teachers, along with edtech experts and entrepreneurs from all over Russia, gathered in St. Petersburg in order to examine education from a different perspective. Here are the highlights of the event.

  22.05.2023

• Yandex’s New Contest Lets Students Try Their Hand at Teaching IT

  Yandex Academy, the tech company’s educational branch, has launched a contest which lets Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD students enrolled in IT-related programs aid their lecturers. The winners will be offered a temporary position as teaching assistants for the next one or two semesters. The application deadline is May 22. Keep reading to find out more about the various responsibilities that this job entails.

  19.05.2023

• Student Spotlight: Rahim Hakimov, Tajikistan

  ITMO’s unmatched success at ICPC inspires many youngsters to take up coding. Today, we’ll talk to someone who has not only made coding his vocation but also represented ITMO at the highest level. Meet Rahim Hakimov, a 20-year-old student from Tajikistan who is also a software engineer at Yandex. Thanks to his passion for coding, he has begun his career in big tech before even having graduated! Learn about Rahim’s incredible feats at ITMO in today's student spotlight.

  27.04.2023

• It’s Your Call: Highlights of the Sixth Educational Forum at ITMO

  On April 17, the sixth annual educational forum It’s Your Call! kicked in at ITMO. Aimed at the participants of the I Am a Professional contest, the event features lectures and workshops by experts from ITMO, Sberbank, and Yandex on IT, cybersecurity, robotics, machine learning, programming, and controlling drones. The participants will also learn to combine research and cutting edge technologies in their own startups. The event is organized in partnership with Sberbank.

  18.04.2023

• Hackathon To Develop New Skills for Yandex’s Virtual Assistant Concludes at ITMO

  Yandex’s virtual assistant, Alice, has developed several new skills thanks to the hackathon organized by ITMO’s Higher School of Digital Culture in cooperation with the company. The competition took place on March 4-26. The new functions include assisting students during exams and even helping users connect with potential friends.

  30.03.2023

• Yandex Director for AI: In a Year, ChatGPT Will Seem Mundane

  This March, OpenAI released its new AI model, GPT-4, and announced its integration into various apps and services – the most popular, of course, being the ground-breaking chatbot. IT companies all over the world are incorporating the bot into their products, but what’s happening in Russia? How will these developments impact education and the labor market? Alexander Krainov, the director for development of artificial intelligence technologies at Yandex, and invited experts discussed these issues at a recent meetup hosted by ITMO. Here’s our recap.

  29.03.2023