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• Programming the Future: ITMO University’s 2016 Annual Report

  For ITMO University, 2016 has been a year of international recognition, opening of new laboratories, rapid increase in publications in prestigious magazines and conducting large-scale science festivals in the very heart of St. Petersburg. Read more about the key events in the university's life in the 2016’s annual report.

  25.07.2017

• Study Abroad in One of the Best Universities in Finland

  Jumping on a 3.5 hour train ride to study in a new place for a semester might not sound a lot like ‘study abroad’, especially when you live in a country as large as Russia, but for ITMO student Mariya Shaposhnikova, crossing the border over to Finland and spending a semester at Aalto University turned out to be a really rewarding and eye-opening experience.

  24.07.2017

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  23.07.2017

• How a Russian Teenager Cracked Nation's Largest Social Network in His Spare Time

  Ilya Glebov is 17 years old. This spring he graduated from one of the best school in Monchegorsk – a small town in Murmansk Oblast with a population of over 40 thousand people. While preparing for his Unified State Exam (USE) in computer science, he stumbled upon an article about a vulnerability in Facebook’s security system that made possible the hacking of nearly all of the accounts on the social network. He decided to try the same “trick”, as Ilya calls it, with VK. Eventually he discovered that such a vulnerability was also present in the Russian social network. Ilya was rewarded with two thousand dollars for his discovery and he received one more thousand from ICQ’s bug-bounty program after it was revealed that that platform was, too, susceptible to this method. However, Ilya will only be able to get his money after he turns 18. Right now he is planning to enrol in a university to study information security. He spoke to ITMO.NEWS about how he managed to find a flaw in Russia’s biggest social networks in between studying.

  21.07.2017

• ITMO Scientists Receive Russian Science Foundation Grants

  According to the results of the first three rounds of the Presidential research funding program, 504 pilot projects, 239 youth research teams and 31 laboratories have been awarded grants. Many of ITMO University’s scientists are among them. The winners’ projects are based on various fields of study: from smart city development scenarios to the creation of dielectric metamaterials with unique properties.

  19.07.2017

• World-Renowned Professors Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit on Computer Science in Life

  ​What's the difference between distributed and parallel computing? Why is research in this area an intellectual pleasure? How do prestigious awards influence unknown sciences? Godel Prize and Dijkstra Prize winner, Professor Maurice Herlihy from Brown University and Nir Shavit from MIT answered these questions and more. They also explained what inspired them to work in computer science and what they thought about ITMO University. They were lecturing at ITMO's summer school "Practice and Theory in Concurrent Computing" this month.

  18.07.2017

• European Hackathon Winners Came to ITMO to Study Programming

  The Open Data Hackathon took place in May, in Bolzano (Italy), bringing together developers and data scientists from all across Europe. For 24 hours, the teams worked on creating a working prototype based on one of their ideas. The winners of the hackathon took the main prize: a trip to St. Petersburg for a two-day intensive programming course at ITMO University. This year, ITMO has become a seven-time winner of ACM ICPC and remains the world record holder for most wins

  18.07.2017

• Coffee to Go in St. Petersburg

  You may have read our previous article about Cafe Society in St. Petersburg. One of the more unique aspects of the Coffee scene in St. Petersburg is the proliferation of Coffee-to-Go stands all over the city.

  17.07.2017

• Show, Don't Tell: ITMO.SHOW Provides Access to All ITMO Presentations

  ITMO University has launched the ITMO.SHOW Presentations Cloud – a useful online tool that provides access to all of the presentations used by the university staff to present its programs and features. Presentations on ITMO’s five schools, introductory presentations for Russian and international audiences, roadmap presentations for Project 5-100’s International Council – all this and more can be found at ITMO.SHOW. 

  17.07.2017

• ITMO Ranks High for International Collaboration in Management Education

  According to the “Ranking of Global Business Schools in Russia and CIS Countries”, prepared by the analytics center “Expert”, ITMO University is one of the top ten universities ranked by publication activity in the field of management. The university is also said to be the leader in its field-weighted citation impact (FWCI) index and the level of international scientific partnership in its subject area. ITMO University’s position in the ranking was calculated according to data on ITMO’s Institute of International Business and Law and the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations.

  17.07.2017