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• Spin Unit Co-Founder on Social Networks’ Effect on Urban Life

  What do urban planning experts learn from photos in Instagram? How does data derived from social networks help bring people together? These and other questions are researched by Damiano Cerrone, the co-founder and content-manager of Spin Unit - a transnational research team that works at the confluence of such fields as Urban Science and Art&Science. Last weekend, he gave a lecture for ITMO University's section at the popular science conference Parsec-2017. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, Mr. Cerrone explained how scientists derive large amounts of data from social networks, why one can't fully trust information from Instagram and what is there to learn from studying St. Petersburg's metamorphology.

  31.07.2017

• 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

• How Researchers Use Social Media to Find Cool Spots and Fight Crime

  On July 1 to 8, the Web Science Summer School 2017 was held in St. Petersburg. It was organized by Laboratory of Internet Studies at Higher School of Economics and ITMO University’s International Laboratory “Computer Technologies”. The School’s mentors presented the projects in data set analysis. ITMO.NEWS has examined some of the social network data analysis projects developed by specialists from ITMO’s eScience Research Institute.

  13.07.2017

• French Master's Student on Coming to Russia and Differences from France

  Nicolas Jacquier, a Master’s student at the engineering school ESIEE Paris, has been working on an individual project for 2 months already as part of his internship at ITMO University. He is only staying for three months in total in St. Petersburg where he will work on Big Data visualization. In an interview with ITMO.NEWS, he spoke to us about why Europeans feel right at home in the city, the friendly relationships between professors and students, the pros and cons of writing a Master’s thesis and which European capital the city of St. Petersburg resembles the most.

  03.07.2017

• E-Contenta Founder: How to Go Global With Your Start-Up

  Just a few years ago Zoya Andreeva, a B2B specialist, had an idea: could she start her own business by combining her field of expertise with Big Data technology? Thus was born the idea for E-Contenta, a personalized online marketing service. In only a couple of years the company that employed three people and frequently found itself in a dead end became a start-up that counted Google and Ericsson among its partners. Last year E-Contenta, a resident of ITMO’s Technopark, participated in the Starta Accelerator program in New York and now has several new projects in USA. Founder and CEO of E-Contenta, Zoya Andreeva, spoke to ITMO.NEWS about the do’s and don’ts of working on the global market.

  06.06.2017

• Big Data and the Russian Dream

  If you’re from Pakistan and are thinking about studying in Russia, you might want to hear about a first-hand account of how it all works, and what studying in Russia could look like for you. In fact, you’ll laugh a lot when you find out how to say “how are you?” and “good” in Russian.

  29.05.2017

• Art&Science: How Big Data Becomes Art

  ​Can data be a source of inspiration, and can information become art? We are surrounded by data, but we rarely think about seeing it as artistic material. Last Sunday, Dmitry Muromtsev, head of ITMO's Information Science and Semantic Technologies International Laboratory and Julia Freeman, artist and Associate Professor at the Open Data Institute in London shared about using Big Data in digital art as part of the Art&Science: Science.Art.Museum project. 

  24.05.2017

• IT and Fashion: How Will Technologies Revolutionize the Fashion Industry

  A smart jacket that can charge your smartphone, ties that blink according to one’s mood, biometric sportswear and haute couture dresses that change color - with each year, there are more and more smart fashion items, and technologies gradually conquer podiums. Yet, will that all be limited to dynamically lit jewelry or smart fabrics controlled with an iPhone? Surely not, believes Konstantin Karmanchik, advisor to ITMO's Innovations Office and founder of the CLMI venture integrator. Big Data, machine learning and artificial intelligence - all of that will soon allow any user to suit up in two clicks, as well as help designers to better understand the market's demands. In an interview with ITMO.NEWS, Mr. Karmanchik shared about what new fashion-startups should be like, what technologies will revolutionize the industry and how ITMO's research can contribute to that.

  31.03.2017

• Big Data for Insurance: How Algorithms Affect Car Insurance Prices

  Owners of red cars get into car accidents more frequently than others. This statement may seem ridiculous, but sometimes, having analyzed large amounts of data, specialists find unexpected facts. Moreover, the results of Big Data surveys are very helpful for marketing strategies. Yaroslav Polin, who recently received the award for his big data analysis in the field of insurance, talked about his project.

  10.02.2017

• Smartphones Are no Longer "Smart" With Cloud Technologies

  Recently ITMO students participated in an internship at the Dell EMC corporation where they learnt about promising data storage technologies developed by the company. Gennady Smorodin, head of the Russian cluster of Dell EMC Academic Alliance, shared why an IT expert has to keep up with novelties.

  20.01.2017