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• 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

• It’s Like Seeing Your Baby Walk: Founders of Specvideoanalytika Startup on Development of Automated Vehicle Pass Systems

  The startup by ITMO staff members that focuses on the development of smart systems that control the access of cars to restricted areas has become a Skolkovo resident. The project’s founders speak about their first clients in Moscow,difficulties, achievements, and the path towards self-sufficiency.

  15.12.2020

• ITMO University Team Comes Second in Online Stage of ICPC Northern Eurasia Finals

  On December 13, the online stage of the ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) Northern Eurasia competition took place. The team from ITMO University placed second and will now go on to participate in the offline stage of the competition. Its ultimate prize will be the opportunity to represent their university in the finals of the international student programming competition ICPC-2021.

  15.12.2020

• First Year Student Daniil Kazantsev Presents Project at Sberbank Conference on Artificial Intelligence

  The Artificial Intelligence Journey conference took place online on December 3-5, 2020. The event is among the world’s largest discussion platforms on artificial intelligence.

  07.12.2020