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• ITMO University Scientists Present Record Amount of Works at the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference in Prague

  …n value of an objective function that needs to be optimized (for example, maximized or minimized). The algorithm can calculate this function, choose the best solutions, create new ones on the basis of the latter and repeat this process until a satisfactory solution has been found.  If we were to describe this method with definitions from Charles Darwin’s On th…

  05.08.2019

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Sevkabel Port

  …me 49,000 km of high-voltage cable last year. Sprawling murals, a wooden promenade, and splashes of color in design elements and art installations add modern flair and a whole new level of artistic, social and monetary value. That’s what’s cool about this scenario: it’s not a developer turning a bankrupt plant into a fashionable creative space. It’s a plant itself…

  02.08.2019

• Mendeleev 150: IUPAC’s Birthday and Invention of Periodic Law

  … about pumps in his 1871 work diary. He becomes fascinated with another subject: world ether. Read more about Mendeleev’s life after the periodic table in this article by ITMO.NEWS. During the second day of Mendeleev 150, other scientists discussed the uses of the periodic table in today’s research. Professor Christopher Hendon from the University of Oregon de…

  02.08.2019

• Recognize Me If You Can: Can Facial Recognition Systems Really Tell How We Feel?

  …ecognition technology were tested in Moscow in 2017, and in 2018, their amount reached 7,000. By the end of 2019, the Moscow government plans to launch a contest on creating a new facial recognition system that will connect to over 200,000 of the city’s cameras. Shopping. Retailers have also been showing interest in facial recognition technology in the past severa…

  02.08.2019

• Crystals and Peculiar Stars: Final Day of Mendeleev 150 at ITMO

  …able, scientists have worked to discover where each of the 118 elements had come from. Within the first 15 minutes after the Big Bang, hydrogen atoms combined with a cloud of “newborn” particles, which then expanded and cooled down. Some of these atoms went on to form helium. Hydrogen and helium make up 98% of the universe and serve as the primary components of stars…

  01.08.2019

• ITMO Students on Recent Start-Up Internship Program in China

  …ervice for easy printing at the university campus, and Nikita Lisovetin was developing the YourLib app for helping users to categorize messages in messenger apps.  ITMO.NEWS talked to the students about their projects and their participation in the international summer program in China. Tell us about the projects that helped you get on the program in China.…

  01.08.2019

• Camp in Programming: Intense Problem-Solving

  …tinues his studies and applies for jobs.  Everyone agrees that the amount of studying they have been doing until now has been very intense and challenging. Allan notes, “I knew what I was getting myself into based on the program description, but when I came here it multiplied by three.” But instead of feeling discouraged, it has made them even more motivated to pu…

  01.08.2019

• ITMO University Presents Its 2018 Annual Report

  …to 2027 and our placement in academic rankings; Research: the University’s research and publication activities and grant projects; Education and international development: new educational programs and international projects; ITMO.TECH: the development of entrepreneurial culture and innovations at ITMO; ITMO.FAMILY: the community, public events, and campaigns;…

  31.07.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 3-4, 2019

  …dstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation filmmaker’s Barak Goodman studies the cultural, political and social ramifications of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival in upstate New York, putting under the spotlight on the values, attitudes and hopes of the 500,000 young people attending the revolutionary event, under the spirit-of-the-times accompaniment of songs by J…

  31.07.2019

• ITMO Master’s Student on Her Exchange in Barcelona: Tips, Tricks, Impressions

  …and Research in Informatics (MIRI). I chose four disciplines, all of them in the field of programming. Because I enrolled in the Faculty of Programming, I encountered a lot of new information. I knew only the basics of programming at the beginning of my studies, while all of the other students knew it very…

  31.07.2019