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• VK’s Head of Growth and Research On Delegating Routine Tasks to AI

  …We’ve recently learned that VK is updating its "smart news feed" algorithm. You were among those who created the “smart feed” back in 2016. What has changed in these two years? Our team has grown very strong since then. Back in 2016 we were only a few people and now we have a whole team devoted to machine learning algorithms. We’ve learned what every type of user …

  10.04.2018

• St. Petersburg Off the Beaten Track

  …1. Discover New Holland: a City Within the City Just a decade ago it was but a rough, uncouth place, but it was recently given a new life and transformed into a perfect space for both leisure and entertaining. The garden, the walkways paved with stone and surrounded by a sprawling herb garden, and the lush green lawns with stools …

  10.04.2018

• Startups Present Eye-Treatment Neural Network, Physical Therapy Globe at FT Startup Drive

  … calculate how myopia will develop in each patient. The neural network was trained with a massive amount of data gathered from patients with myopia. By identifying patterns in new cases, the system will suggest diagnoses and future defect growth. Why is this important? First of all, it’s estimated that 2.5 billion people around the world today suffer from near…

  09.04.2018

• Learning Russian and Making Movies: a Finn's Exchange Semester at ITMO University

  …don’t speak English, so it was, and sometimes still is, difficult to communicate. I have also had problems with red tape when I was applying for a subway student pass. No one knew how long the whole process would take, which resulted in certain difficulties. I cannot say, though, that these complications have been a huge nuisance, it is just that the whole system is …

  09.04.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …stead of pesticides for plants. Novel technologies are being sought to replace the traditional pesticides used to protect plants, particularly edible plants such as cereals. A new approach to plant protection involves vaccinating plants against pathogens with double-stranded RNA molecules that can be sprayed directly on the leaves Astronomy software to the rescue …

  08.04.2018

• GameDev Specialists and Practice-Oriented Education

  …al competency? It seems that the main problem these days is that education is not practice oriented enough. That is why the aim of our courses of training and adaptation of newcomers is to tell them about all the aspects of the profession and give them some practical skills. For old employees we also have some refresher courses. What is the best strategy for IT…

  06.04.2018

• VR/AR Association & ITMO University Spring Kickoff: Trends and Philosophy of Virtual Reality

  …es are used to train staff as well as to demonstrate and advertise products. Of course, the real estate industry has always prioritized visualization, which is why this new technology was met with great interest. Designers use VR and AR to work on projects, especially today, when most construction projects cover not just individual buildings, but entire infras…

  05.04.2018

• Wastebake Project: Smart Recycling

• ITMO University Revamps its Master’s Program in Optoelectronics

  …g of the need for our deeper involvement in the training of specialists -- not only in preparing individual courses but in the program as a whole." The development of the new program has been delegated to company executives who are able to cover the entire range of subjects studied within the field of Optoelectronics. Since optoelectronics consists of several ma…

  04.04.2018

• HEX Hackathon: 32 Hours to Make the World a Better Place

  …velopment was carried out by four developers: a mobile development specialist, two backend developers, and a designer. “Having already participated in hackathons, we knew that we didn’t have enough time to develop something complex, and focused instead on making an application that would really work”, says Maxim. Results The team members say that par…

  04.04.2018