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ITMO Graduate Mikhail Galkin on PhD Studies in Germany and the Importance of Believing in Oneself
… that time, I’d already had the experience of working part-time for several companies, and had to decide whether I wanted to stay in science or opt for working in the industry instead. The decision was fairly simple, as I was really interested in topics my research was exploring. I wanted to continue with my work, to dig deeper, to expand my knowledge. I’ve been o…
25.04.2019
Urban Change Week: Do Your Bit to Change the City for the Better
…aw attention to this topical problem. We hope that in the future, the project will further develop and include new layers where citizens will suggest planting new trees,” explains Maria Tinika, the project coordinator. Recycle map Launched in 2011, Recycle Map is a volunteering project aimed at creating recycling drop-off spots in Russian cities. It was initi…
24.04.2019
Congress of Young Scientists Participant Yaroslav Kapustin: Had I Not Worked on My Own Projects, I Never Would Have Learned What I Know
…ns. My first one was in Moscow, where I had to develop a solution for the Liza Alert search-and-rescue organization. I got the first prize even though I was competing alone against six- or seven-person teams. It was, of courses, a very significant achievement for me: my first hackathon and my first victory. The participants were tasked with developing an app that …
24.04.2019
The Magic of Russian May Holidays
…We stayed at the nicest hotel in town. We toured the Kremlin and had dinner at Detinez, its ancient inner fortress. We watched the sky turn technicolor with rainbows after a rainstorm. The fact that my grandparents almost forgot me on the other side of the Ilmen Lake is another story. It gave me nightmares through high school. Many trips came after this one. I did…
23.04.2019
ITMO Developers on Creating an Evaluation System for Plagiarism Detection in 48 Hours
…TMO University in 2017. At the hackathon, we were given two weeks to solve the text alignment problem. When performing this task, you’re given two documents, one of which contains a number of copied passages from the other one. The task is to find all these passages (sentences or paragraphs). We quickly came up with a working algorithm, which install additional armor plates and carry more equipment. Its basic structure can also be used for pressure suits and aqualungs. The most complicated part of this project was having to corre…
23.04.2019
University of Oulu Experts on Teaching, Finland-Russia Cooperation and Joint Projects with ITMO
…t role face-to-face communication plays in education; nothing is quite capable of replacing it. That’s why apps are just a cherry on the cake, the main ingredient of which remains to be real-world communication. You may have heard of foreign language learning apps, which nowadays are very popular. What’s your verdict on their effectiveness? Magdalini Liontou: …
23.04.2019
ITMO Graduates Featured in Forbes' 30 Under 30 Ranking
…, what with active development of information systems and the ongoing increase of various risks,” says Artur Gleim. “The world is shifting to a new kind of industry. This explains the demand for new, hi-tech solutions in this field. We take a comprehensive approach to the development of our project, which spanned all phases from research of new physical concepts to t…
22.04.2019
HackUniversity: Create, Think, and Simply Have a Good Time
…eural Network-Based Waste Sorting Conveyor”. “Our task was to teach a robot to use a camera in order to determine the coordinates of objects on a conveyor belt,” explains Alexey Ustinov, the team captain and second-year Bachelor’s student at the Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies. “Hackathons always make you work hard to produce the best solution. Our…
22.04.2019
Internship at Huawei: 5G Networks and Robots in Hotels
…from 9am till 5pm and spent the remaining time sightseeing. We lived in a hotel situated at the heart of the university district of Beijing, so we had an opportunity to get an insight into the Chinese university environment and see how things work there. It’s interesting, for example, that Chinese students drink a lot of water and big coolers are everywhere on the un…
22.04.2019