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12.09.2016
British Royals Acknowledge Video360 Arctic Footage
Several months ago, Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NArFU) made a proposition to specialists from ITMO's Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations — to participate in an expedition of the Arctic Floating University and create a report in the video-360 format. The video turned out so good that it was highly rated by the British delegation led by Princess Anna. The Princess's husband, vice-admiral Tim Laurence liked it so much that he expressed a wish to participate in the annual NArFU's expedition.
09.09.2016
Great Expectations: ITMO University Freshmen Shared their Impressions
More than 1.000 school graduates from Russia's different regions and other countries became ITMO University freshmen on August 31. During one of the most important summers in their lives they passed Unified State Exam, more than one-third gained the highest ones, won various School Olympiads — more than 20% have received the right for enhanced scholarship and also have come a long way from their birth-places to join ITMO community. We asked them about their feelings.
01.09.2016
Kronstadt — the "Hub of the Universe" and the Might-Have-Been Capital of Russia
Kronstadt is a quiet green municipal town located on the Kotlin Island to the west of St. Petersburg, full of parks, gardens and boulevards. In a way, it’s a miniature St. Petersburg, with its own Gostiny Dvor, Summer Garden, Menshikov Palace, Obvodny Canal and even its own drawbridge, which makes it an ideal place to go to on a one-day trip.
23.08.2016
ITMO Student Wins AI Journey Contest 2021
Ammar Ali, a PhD student from ITMO University’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty, has become a winner and runner-up, respectively, of two high-profile competitions in AI and computer vision: AI Journey Contest by Sberbank and Evraz AI Challenge by Evraz. Thus, the student continued his winning streak, which began in early 2021 when he won a competition organized by the American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and supported by NASA. We talked to Ammar to find out how he managed to combine these two latest achievements and what he plans to do next.
01.11.2024
ITMO Rises in RAEX National Ranking
The agency RAEX Analytics has published its 11th annual ranking of the best Russian universities. For the fifth time in a row, ITMO University is featured among the top 15 of the ranking, this year being 13th on the list. All in all, the agency evaluated 206 out of 704 universities throughout Russia.
01.11.2024