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  • Outcomes of 6th St. Petersburg International Labor Forum

    The 6th St. Petersburg International Labor Forum took place on March 14-18. This event brought together representatives of business, administration, science, education, and HR. They discussed new tendencies and challenges of the labor market, such as the lack of IT specialists. Read on to find out more about the measures taken by employers to solve the pressing problems, as well as what to expect in the future.

    22.03.2022

  • ITMO Launches Online Master’s Program in Machine Learning

    ITMO University and Napoleon IT are launching a new Master’s program titled Machine Learning Engineering. Its students will train under experienced mentors in the format of a distributed project office – a format that has already become common at major IT companies. Over the course of two years, they will acquire skills equivalent to the Middle Machine Learning Engineer level. More about the program and admissions – in this article.

    28.02.2022

  • CodeX Team Presents New App for Error Detection in Code

    CodeX was founded in 2015 to help students from ITMO and other universities in St. Petersburg learn how to code, create full-fledged products, and successfully bring them to the market. One of the company’s products is Hawk. Initially meant for internal use, this error tracking app became popular with major media platforms such as TJ, vc.ru, DTF, and Coub. Here’s everything you need to know about the new app.

    22.02.2022

  • Is AI About to Replace Programmers?

    DeepMind, an AI development company and the creators of AlphaGo, an algorithm that managed to defeat a professional Go player, has come up with a new algorithm that can write software code and solve complex creative tasks. Dubbed AlphaCode, it is more successful than 46% of actual competitive programmers. However, it still can’t replace a human developer. Let’s find out why.

    18.02.2022

  • Digital Professions Program: Over 1,000 People Are Studying IT With ITMO University

    The Digital Professions in Russia initiative keeps growing and ITMO University’s courses, offered as part of the program, have been immensely popular, with more than 1,100 students joining. Soon specialists from ITMO’s DH Center and International Research and Education Center Autodesk will launch four more online courses.

    10.01.2022

  • I Am a Professional: Tips From Former Winner of Programming & IT Track

    The fifth season of the I am a Professional contest welcomed more than 600,000 students from all over Russia. This year’s participants have already embarked on the tasks of the qualifying round. The ongoing competition offers 72 tracks, with Programming & IT organized by ITMO being the most popular one among students in St. Petersburg. Read on to learn the success story of last year’s winner in the track.

    17.12.2021

  • Yandex Launches Voice-Over Translation Using Neural Networks

    On September 7, Yandex presented a new tool – automatized voice-over translation of English videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and other websites into Russian. It’s available through Yandex.Browser, which allows it to work with videos posted on any website.  

    14.09.2021

  • ITMO’s Digital Healthcare Lab On Decision Support, Medical Records, and Agent-Based Modeling

    How to optimize the work of ambulances using modeling? Can you organize digital medical records using big data? What’s a decision support system? ITMO.NEWS discussed these questions with Sergey Kovalchuk, head of ITMO University’s Digital Healthcare Lab.

    07.09.2021

  • ITMO Students Create Projects for the Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Memorial Museum-Apartment

    This spring, ITMO University and Art ParkING (a center for modern technologies in art) have organized the AR+T festival. Its participants, Bachelor’s students, have come up with designs for interactive exhibits at a branch of the St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music. Now they are working on their projects to complete them by autumn.

    11.06.2021

  • ITMO Experts on How Digital Metaspace Can Benefit Research

    Today, on June 3, a discussion about digital metaspace for scientific research took place at the stand of the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Experts from ITMO University shared how to increase the efficiency of research activities using modern digital tools.

    03.06.2021