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• Starcon 2017: From Space Travel to 3D Printing

  …Starcon is Russia’s oldest and biggest festival of science fiction, fantasy, film and science. It traces its history to 1999 and is held annually in St. Petersburg since 2012. Originally a convention for Star Wars enthusiasts, these days it features more than 30 fictional universes, booths of many various companies, several dozen

  28.07.2017

• ITMO University Wins Grant on Developing New Decision Support System

  …ifficult. That is why predicting models can't be used for full-automated control, though they are still good for decision support systems. Research tasks and development of scientific community in the field of financial modeling. Among the Russian Science Foundation's tasks is the development of the prioritized trends of Russia's …

  28.07.2017

• New Genetic Algorithm by ITMO's Scientists Wins Prize at GECCO-2017

  …VO - a subdivision of the Association for Computing Machinery which focuses on genetic and evolutionary computations. The conference has been around since 1999; at this event, scientists and engineers from all over the world discuss the most relevant topics in such fields as genetic algorithms, complex systems, digital entertainment industry and arts, machine learnin…

  27.07.2017

• ITMO Goes 350 Positions Up in Webometrics Top Universities by Google Scholar Citations Subranking

  … Universities by Google Scholar Citations ranking assesses five thousand official university profiles from all over the world, as well as almost a million personal profiles of scientists in Google Scholar that are affiliated with particular universities. The ranking is released twice a year - in January and in June. According to Sofia Savinova, Head of the Office …

  26.07.2017

• ITMO Students Share Summer Internship Stories

  …Polina Poleschuk, second-year Master’s student, studies Science Communication. Summer of 2017 – intern at Erice International School of Science Journalism For the third time, ITMO University is participating in one of the world’s best schools of science journalism, held annually at the Erice comune i…

  26.07.2017

• ITMO and VNIIM Develop Joint Master's Program in Metrology

  …Today, just like it always has, the science of weights and measures pervades all types of human activity; however, until very recently there were no educational programs in Russia to train top-tier experts in metrology. National Institutes dealing in metrology are key to developing such skills and knowledge in students. Mendeleev National Research Institute of M…

  25.07.2017

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

  …nkings for the first time, placed in the 351-400 interval, thus becoming 3rd in Russia according to this ranking. Also, ITMO entered the top-100 universities in THE's Computer Science subject ranking by ranking 56th worldwide. The university also got UNESCO's international medal for its unique educational environment.  "For me, 2016 has become the year when …

  25.07.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …en to the sound of a neutron star. Mark Ballora, an expert on music technology at Pennsylvania State University in State College, uses sonification to create symphonies out of scientific data. As part of his work on Rhythms of the Universe movie, he got to turn into music all kinds of data: solar wind, sunquakes, Earth’s electromagnetic resonances [electromagnetic wa…

  23.07.2017

• Neural Interfaces as Art: How Does Neurotheater Work?

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

  …ed to spend it on anything yet; I’d rather save it. When you wrote about what happened in your post on Habrahabr, you said that you were “studying” for your USE in computer science - what’s with the quotation marks? Yes, it really did happen when I was reading up for my computer science exam. There was a problem number 27. The thi…

  21.07.2017