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• Those Who Code: Female Programmers on Gender Issues in IT

  When one talks about programmers, the first image that comes to mind is a bearded man with a cat, some geek in hipster glasses, or a nerd that doesn't see behind his monitor… Anything but a woman. There is still a stereotype that coding is not for women, which is being gradually destroyed by those girls who become interested in IT and study it. ITMO.NEWS interviewed those who fight this stereotype daily. Female IT students from different Russian universities shared about why working in IT is on-trend, how they feel among their male colleagues and whether they ever faced gender inequality problems in their professional lives.

  08.03.2017

• It’s Hard to Be a Superhero: Rector Vladimir Vasilyev Shares Some Life Tips

  ITMO University’s Career Service Centre launched the ITMO.SuperHeroes project, the first meeting was held on 3 March. The special guest speaker, Vladimir Vasilyev, ITMO’s Rector, talked about his own super villain, the dream team and the first non-classical university.

  07.03.2017

• Social Media Algorithm Says Trump "Tweets Like a Bachelor"

  Mathematicians from ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and National University of Singapore created an algorithm that predicts user marital status with 86% precision using data from three social networks (Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram) instead of one.

  06.03.2017

• City of the Stolovaya — a Culinary Journey Through St. Petersburg’s Greatest Dining Phenomenon

  One of my earliest dining experiences in Russia came during my first trip to Moscow, over twenty years ago. After a gruelling day tramping through the city — then still in the midst of chaotic transformation — my guide decided to treat me to a blast from the communist past that she said would certainly soon be consigned to the dustbin of culinary history: the stolovaya

  03.03.2017

• SciComm in Russia: How Does It Work and What’s Its Future?

  If you think that everyone knows that the Earth revolves around the Sun — well, you'd be disappointed. According to data gathered by the Higher School of Economics three years ago, 8% of respondents in Russia still believed it's vice versa. So, what does this mean? At the very least, it means that science writers, communicators and journalists still have a lot to do! During the recent course "Theory and Practice of Science Communication", its participants learned how to speak about complex things to a wide audience, why business needs science communication, and what will be popular science's future.

  02.03.2017

• Startups from an Ice-Hole:

  Oulu, a small town in the north of Finland, recently hosted the Polar Bear Pitching contest for innovative startups. The contest's main feature is its original format: all the developers present their projects while standing waist-deep in an ice-hole. This was the fourth time that the contest was held in Oulu; it has already attracted the attention of foreign startupers, so the project's geography constantly grows. This year, participants from ITMO University participated in the contest, as well.

  01.03.2017

• JavaScript, С, PHP and Python: ITMO’s Master’s Students on How to Create a Website in 45 Minutes

  Which programming languages one should learn to create a full-fledged website? How to do the design layout justice? And how to combine all that in such a way, that the website will look great on both a PC and a mobile device? Master's students from ITMO's Department of Computer Engineering and Design can do all the graphics and coding in just 45 minutes, and can well explain a novice web-developer how to create a modern adaptive website from scratch. What can one learn in a short time, and how to choose "your" programming language — read this and more in our article!

  28.02.2017

• Russian Men’s Day, Women’s Day and the Danger of the Frying Pan

  If Russians have two New Years (read more about it in our Idiot’s Guide to the Russian New Year), what can stop them to have two Valentine’s Days? Nothing! Russians do things in a big way, so they have Men’s Day and Women’s Day, and celebrate them within days of each other so no-one gets left out. Being among Russia’s "sacred" holidays, they involve any man or woman, regardless of their relationship status. Born out of violent causes of war and suffrage, they’ve turned into a celebration of love and appreciation.

  23.02.2017

• Experience Is a Must: American Experts on Business-University Cooperation

  A university's profile depends not on rankings, but on how its graduates succeed, believe Casey Sax, vice chancellor of West Virginia's Department of Vocational and Technical Education, and Inta Morris, head of the International Office of the Department of Higher Education of Colorado (USA). The experts came to ITMO University to find more about its entrepreneurial infrastructure. The American colleagues are sure that in both Russia and the USA, education shares the same goal: to train its graduates 100% ready for future work. In an interview to ITMO.NEWS, they've shared about why it is important to focus on demands of particular enterprises, and how the graduates' quality affects the economics of the whole region.

  21.02.2017

• Does Your School Have the Best Programmers? ITMO Does!

  On February 19 HackerRank platform published the results of the University CodeSprint, the international contest for programmers. This year ITMO University took first place (361.9 points) by a significant margin (the team placed 2nd got only 299.58 points).

  21.02.2017