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• First Graduates of ITMO and University of Rostock Double Degree Program Receive Diplomas

  …upporter of this partnership ever since this idea first emerged three or four years ago. One of the best results of this program is the relationship that has been established between the parties. Our regions have long been partners, even on a political level; “Russian days” are often held in Rostock. Students from both universities find that many companies and organi…

  14.11.2017

• ITMO Robotics Team Gets Gold at World Robot Olympiad 2017

  …ition of trees, determines the areas in need of preventative felling and even helps predict possible wildfires. As Igor Lositskiy notes, the students have even built a neural network to help the robot identify the species of trees. Earlier on, the robot had already won the first place in the Creative category at the Russian Olympiad in Programming of Intelligent Robo…

  13.11.2017

• "Assemble a University": Nationwide Hackathon Contributes to NTI Project

  …. The educational path may include different seminars, workshops, and hackathons as well as university programs and online programs or everything altogether. A special neural network will search databases for accomplished professionals in the chosen field of activity and use their data to develop the educational path which leads to similar results. Also, the project’…

  13.11.2017

• ITMO Scientists Develop Gene Analysis Software to Combat Superbug Viruses

  …ble to explore the environment of a specific gene and see how it changes depending on bacteria species. “We have created a tool that allows us to identify the difference between the R-genes in the microbial genomes from two or more samples of gut microbiota. We can compare the microbiota of two different people or samples of one person’s microbiota from differen…

  13.11.2017

• WCSJ-2017: Making Science More Popular Than Politics

  …nments turn away from evidence-based decision making and data-driven science. Other, more work-specific questions, such as the use of statistics or use of social media and networks in promotion of science, were also discussed. “At the conference in San Francisco I was always received with genuine interest in myself as both a representative of the Russian SciC…

  10.11.2017

• Programmer Daria Yakovleva: "You shouldn’t be afraid to try something new"

  … I’m participating in an internship at the VK office where I am working on the application of machine learning algorithms in targeted advertising. We want users of the social network to see ads that are relevant to them. Which additional skills do you think are useful when you’re working, and can be learned by being active in different areas? First, I think it’…

  09.11.2017

• Canadian Experts Test ITMO Quantum Network

  …chnology". In May of 2017, the same group of specialists, in collaboration with their colleagues from Kazan Quantum Center, successfully launched the first multi-node quantum network in Russia and CIS by uniting four nodes in different districts of Tatarstan’s capital. ITMO University’s quantum network was based on a conceptually new…

  09.11.2017

• Vasiliy Leonenko: "If You Are Sure About Your Current Choice, It Is Better to Develop In This Direction

  …ata. For instance, if there’s few data, the classical methods are the most effective. Yet, as the amount grows, we can effectively use things like machine learning and neural networks. In some fields of science, sociology, for instance, the scope of knowledge is sometimes not enough to create even classical models, as it is not even clear which assumptions we can mak…

  08.11.2017

• VK Hackathon Winners: Using New Tech to Run Online Communities

  …unities , so the main task of developers was to create an application for a particular community. All of these applications are stored in the official directory of the social network , which now contains 15-20 applications. VK aimed to expand this catalog. "We presented our project using a VK page. We created a test community and placed our application in it. Th…

  08.11.2017

• Artur Khanov: I Can’t Even Imagine A Profession That Gives You This Much Freedom

  …to do such things, but not me - I don’t like the idea of coding such things for days and even years. I have a Cisco certificate, yet wearing sweaters and uniting routers into networks for the rest of my life is not my idea of a promising future. DEFCON You’ve made it to Skolkovo on your third attempt; how did you motivate yourself after the first failures? H…

  07.11.2017