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• Happy Birthday Computer Virus

  Today is a special date in IT history. Thirty three years ago an American called Fred Cohen created a program that could infect the computer and gain control of the system. It wasn’t, however, until later that the term "computer virus" was coined by Leonard Adleman who was Cohen’s academic adviser and the co-inventor of the RSA cryptosystem. For the last few decades, viruses have amused and frightened humanity, and have also become a source of great problems for large companies and deprived millions of users, access to their computers. Our "celebratory" article today will, with the help of ITMO experts, explore how this time of malware has evolved and dispel myths associated with it.

  10.11.2016

• ITMO and SAP Launch a New Business Accelerator

  ITMO University and the SAP Company signed an agreement on ITMO entering the SAP University Alliance and launching of the SAP Next-Gen Lab — a new generation accelerator that promotes project-oriented education and gives the students an opportunity to partake in real commercial projects.

  09.11.2016

• Midpoint of Project 5−100

  Yesterday, 19 October, the meeting of the rectors of the Universities participating in Project 5−100, also members of the Association of "Global Universities", was held where the heads of leading universities, together with Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets and Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva summed up the interim results of Project 5−100. This year, 2016, marks the midpoint of Project 5−100, the program aimed at increasing the competitiveness of universities among leading research and educational centers which has already been running for three years.

  20.10.2016

• Five Tech News that Make World Better

  19.10.2016

• How an American Ended Up Teaching at ITMO University

  Avoiding jellied meat, enjoying drinks made from bread, and drinking starbucks in St. Petersburg. Meet Joshua Schiefelbein. Born in South Carolina, Joshua spent his first few years in Germany, then moved back to the U.S. living in several different cities until he finally made his way to St. Petersburg, Russia where he now resides. So what brings this enthusiastic young American to our beautiful rainy city?

  18.10.2016

• ITMO University Receives the UNESCO Award

  ITMO University received the UNESCO Medal «For the Development of Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies». Rector Vladimir Vasilyev accepted the award from UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova during an official ceremony in Paris — as the official statement said, for «the university's unique environment: science — education — innovations».

  11.10.2016

• Celebrating ITMO. STORE’s First Birthday

  Exactly one year ago, on October 10th, ITMO. STORE, a store full of ITMO branded products, opened up. It sold some shirts and stationery with the university’s logo. Since then, at least 85 unique pieces made with love have shown up on its website and showroom: shirts, cups, hoodies, soft toys, stickers, chocolate and many others. Alexander Golovaty, the director of ITMO store and Konstantin Kozlov, the store manager talked about their plans for the store’s future.

  10.10.2016

• Training the Next Generation of Information Security Specialists

  Viruses, worms, phishing attacks, trojan horses, hackers, identity theft, even wiki-leaks, all things we associate with information security. Yet it’s so much more than that. Professionals in this field are required in almost every organization and here at ITMO University, we are strengthening the educational programs that offer information security so they are closer to what businesses want, and thus prepare students to go straight from the classroom to the workforce.

  07.10.2016

• Five Things We Loved Last Week

  03.10.2016

• ITMO University is in the Top-100 for Computer Science According to THE

  The latest Times Higher Education subject rankings were announced for Computer Science. ITMO University has never been represented in these rankings before and this year took 56th place, just one of two Russian Universities in the top-100 (along with Lomonosov Moscow State University).

  28.09.2016