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ITMO.EXPERT: Results and Plans for the Future
…udent group work. All of the opinions will be taken into account when deciding what courses should be included in the second part of the program. Apart from introducing the new topics and modules, the coordinators of the project plan to invite new international lecturers and include new modern workshop …
04.07.2018
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: July 7-8
…xhibition is open till July 29. Entrance fee is 200 rub and includes access to Etagi’s picturesque rooftop terrace. The Dostoevsky Day, which will take place on July 7 at New Holland, is yet another great event for those looking for some cultural experience. St. Petersburg’s museums, theatres and libraries will organize plays, concerts, cinema screenings, and wo…
04.07.2018
Associate Professor Vladimir Ulyantsev on Computer Science in Russia
…iology are practically the same, the difference being that computational biology focuses on the application of existing algorithms, and bioinformatics is more about developing new data processing algorithms. On the whole, when genome sequencing technologies first appeared, we started to get very interesting results. What is genome sequencing? Imagine that we t…
04.07.2018
ABBYY Founder David Yang on AI, Building a Business and the Meaning of Life
…me to them and presented my idea: a dictionary that can translate sentences like a human would. We asked for 3,000 rubles in funding, a huge sum in those days, enough to buy a new car; my father, a physicist, only earned 300 rubles a month. I don’t know how I would have ever been able to repay that debt on my stipend of 55 rubles. But we managed to find clients who w…
04.07.2018
ITMO Develops Russia’s First Standard for Designing Innovative Research and Educational Centers
…Sustainable development for science and education: what are the problems that the new standard aims to solve In September 2015, 193 countries (members of United Nations) adopted the new global development program "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development". It included 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which…
04.07.2018
ITMO University Secures First Place in Science Popularisation Ranking
…n higher education institutions are becoming increasingly more professional with each year, and ITMO University’s first and foremost goal is to not rest on its laurels and try new formats, setting a higher bar for others and ourselves.” “The fact that we have some very capable counterparts motivates us to perfect ourselves. In the past year ITMO University…
03.07.2018
First Vice Rector Daria Kozlova on Campuses of the Future
…-depth subjects and the need to adhere to government standards? Daria Kozlova: I think the truly modern and trendy universities today are ones that are quick to readjust to new goals. Universities need to look ahead and change their educational programs and tracks in a timely manner. As for accreditation and educational standards, I’ll note that we, as in the univ…
03.07.2018
ITMO University Launches Russia's First Art&Science Program in English
…y science and ended promoting it. As for us, we have a different task. We want to use our ground work in Art&Science to train the specialists of the future who will develop new art formats. Nowadays, it has become evident that it is the creative industry that sets the foundations for the future: what has become important are the ideas, those who develop them, the …
03.07.2018
Curry and Computer Science: Indian Students Come to ITMO
…ong way, they explained. At ITMO University, they’ve been studying software engineering, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. They also jumped on the chance to learn a new computer science language, Prolog. Part of the experience has been observing interesting differences between the Indian and Russian universities. For example, their university has a …
03.07.2018
Joint Project between ITMO U and LEGO Education
…ogle and IBM, develop their own educational programs, and LEGO Group is not an exception. The company also organizes various workshops for teachers, where they can learn about new teaching methods in the field of robotics, programming, and design. “We encourage children to think critically and creatively, even before entering the university. We want them to lear…
03.07.2018