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• App by ITMO Students will Filter Media Events and Predict their Popularity

  How does one make local news go public, help communities manage the incoming news flow, and offer users a chance to make money off content? Last year at the Vkontakte hackathon, ITMO students Victor Khovansky and Evgeny Varlamov developed an app that can not just categorize media events by topics and categories, but also predict which posts will get the most likes and reposts. The team won the hackathon, and the administration of the Lentach community asked them to continue further developing their project. This February, the application was made available to the public on the Vkontakte social network,  and tested by Lentach community subscribers. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, Victor Khovansky talked about their project and its prospects.

  16.02.2018

• Ilya Nikiforov, Founder Of TeachMePlease, On Blockchain in Education

  15 years ago, Ilya Nikiforov studied at ITMO University at the Department of Mechatronics, then in the Faculty of Computer Graphics and Internet Technology. As a person who has studied at different educational institutions, Ilya knows a lot about the Russian educational system. As of now, the former student is head of Teach Me Please - an ambitious project that will soon become one of the first platforms to introduce blockchain in the field of education. ITMO.NEWS talked to Ilya about such issues as how employers perceive a potential candidates’ diploma, why it is necessary to write honest resumes, how can one substantiate them and how blockchain can help with it.

  22.12.2017

• Initiative Is Encouraged: How To Get Funding From Academic Mobility Support Office

  The contest for getting funding for internships in Russia and abroad conducted by ITMO’s Academic Mobility Support Office gives students an opportunity to go on internships that take up to one month. Such events can be of different formats - internships, conferences, summer and winter schools, seminars, symposiums, and any other kinds of educational and research activities that are conducted in collaboration with other universities and research centers. Those who have already participated in such internships and those who will only just go for one share about the opportunities offered by the contest.

  12.12.2017