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• World-Renowned Professors Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit on Computer Science in Life

  …into practice. I believe that distributed computing has a lot of potential in the sphere of bitcoins, as well as financial networks such as blockchains. What are your impressions of ITMO University? Nir: I led a workshop with the students and I was pleasantly surprised by how prepared they were. The students asked a lot of very good and smart questions and I re…

  18.07.2017

• European Hackathon Winners Came to ITMO to Study Programming

  …refore every company in the world, even if it doesn’t have a strong technological background, understands well that those who are strong in technology are usually ahead. Professions related to information technology dominate the market and in the future this tendency will continue. Therefore those who have excellent IT competencies will be world champions. I think th…

  18.07.2017

• Coffee to Go in St. Petersburg

  … Outside the Lomonosova building, for example, you’ll find three microscopic establishments, crammed together and vying for your caffeinated business. There are even mobile versions parked at strategic points along Nevsky - at the corner of Fontanka, near Dumskaya Ulitsa, and most notably right by Dvortsovy Bridge, just to keep you fortified if you miss the bridges a…

  17.07.2017

• Show, Don't Tell: ITMO.SHOW Provides Access to All ITMO Presentations

  …earch function includes keywords, presentation titles and names of authors. The service’s content is curated by ITMO University’s Advertising Office, where the final versions of university’s high-profile presentations are made. Any of the university’s employees can send a request to the Advertising Office to have their presentations added to ITMO.SHOW. This…

  17.07.2017

• ITMO Ranks High for International Collaboration in Management Education

  …rst-level accreditations, scientific publications in top journals, development of practical cases as well as their level of partnership with foreign business schools and professional accreditations. As noted by the analysts, the main ranking does not present a classic ranked list; its intention is to arrange business schools into clusters according to their progre…

  17.07.2017

• Second Day of VK Fest

  …s will be taught to create game content (you can learn more about this program here). The main difference of this year’s festival compared to the previous ones was the expansion of the exhibition zone. At the GameDev space, the specialists of ITMO University’s eScience Research Institute and their partners from Digital Banana (who educate school children in the ar…

  17.07.2017

• First Day of VK Fest: Sports of the Future

  …around. We move on with the sports adventures: the bravest can do pull-ups on a bar equipped with an electronic counter meter. Why bravest? Because at the moment of maximal tension, the person’s face is caught by a camera; those with a perfect poker-face and a record for the number of pull-ups should expect prizes. Here you can also try an extreme sport and ride a vi…

  16.07.2017

• “Formula for Science PR 3.0”: SciComm for the Modern Society

  …PR” — is a collection of best practices in the area of Science Communication. It is issued by the “Communication Lab” — an RVC project aimed at consolidating and further professionalizing science communication in Russia. The first edition was released in 2014 — when the Russian community of science communicators had only begun to form. In the book, experts and specia…

  14.07.2017

• Game Development Education on the Rise in Russia

  …What prompted you to have a panel discussion on game development education? Alexander Mezin, independent developer, often organizes events for game developers: The idea for a panel discussion on game development education came to us back in spring when we visited ITMO University’s Game Worlds program. It was clear that this was a top…

  14.07.2017

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

  …ount of data and use an algorithm to determine the sentiment: each analyzed post contained a photograph that was evaluated by a convolutional neural network. Each facial expression was assigned one of the eight emotions: anger, indifference, neutral state, sadness, surprise, happiness and grief. In addition to the photos themselves, the accompanying posts were also a…

  13.07.2017