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• MTS and ITMO Launch Master’s Program on Conversational AI

  MTS PJSC (NYSE: MBT, MOEX: MTSS), Russia’s largest telecommunications and digital services provider, and ITMO University announce the launch of the Conversational AI Technologies specialization as part of the System and Applied Software Master’s program of the School of Computer Technologies and Control. Admission to the program has already been opened and the first students will enroll this fall. 

  20.04.2020

• MIT Professor Marin Soljacic: AI Will Play a Large Role in the Future of Research

  In 2007, the New York Times named Marin Soljačić as the author of one of that year’s top 70 “curious, inspired, and perplexing” inventions. The celebrated scientist, winner of numerous awards, and MIT professor is known to the world as, first and foremost, a researcher of wireless energy transfer technology. His experiments and studies on the subject are often compared to those of Nicola Tesla. In recent years, Prof. Soljačić has been exploring the applications of photonic crystals in solar energy production and the usage of machine learning algorithms in photonics. He presented a report on his latest research during the METANANO conference, which has recently concluded in St. Petersburg. In this interview with ITMO.NEWS, Marin Soljačić discusses the effects of the latest tech on research and explains why scientists must not limit themselves to a single field of study.

  30.07.2019

• Semantic Hub Founder Vitaly Nedelskiy: 90% of Startups Fail Because Nobody Needs Their Product

  The volume of the global robotics and drone market grows with each year, and, according to IDC forecasts, will amount to 210+ billion USD by 2022. Vitaly Nedelskiy, the founder of Semantic Hub and the Russian Association of Robotics, has spoken about the technology market during an open lecture at ITMO University’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations. We spoke with Mr. Nedelskiy to learn what it takes to launch a project in this field, which topics to pay attention to, and why there’s no reason to be afraid of robots taking our jobs.

  19.04.2019

• Yandex Director of Marketing Andrey Sebrant: We’re Living in the Age of Implementation

  On December 18, the Winter School “It’s Your Call!”, organized by ITMO University and Sberbank, began its second season. 180 bachelor and Master’s students from all over Russia joined each other in St. Petersburg. On the first day, Andrey Sebrant – Yandex company’s Director of Product Marketing – welcomed the students and shared some advice on how not to get lost on one’s journey into the future.

  22.02.2019

• ITMO Joins New Foresight Project on Innovations

  Which sectors of the economy will be at the forefront of introducing relevant technologies like AI and data analysis? Which regulatory actions are necessary in order to make Russian innovative enterprises more efficient? Which innovative branches of the Russian industry will be offering most jobs in the coming years? ITMO University has recently become part of a workgroup on forecasting the implementation process of advanced digital and intelligent industrial technologies, robotic systems, new materials and construction methods, Big Data processing systems, machine learning and AI as envisioned by the Scientific and Technological Development Strategy of the Russian Federation. ITMO.NEWS spoke to Natalya Lukovnikova, head of the Center for Science and Technology Foresight, about this new project and the university’s contribution to it.

  16.05.2018

• Results of European Parliament Discussion on Robot Economy

  The European Parliament has recently hosted a workshop on the topic “Economy of Robots”. Although a complete integration of robots and AI into humanity’s everyday life is expected to come in a few generations, the process has already begun. Experts outlined the issues that may arise in the meantime. Among the workshop’s participants were Aleksandr Kapitonov, a research assistant at ITMO’s Department of Computer Science and Control Systems, and Sergei Lonshakov, an ITMO alumnus and founder of Airalab.

  18.04.2018

• RAISON Developers on Using AI for Financial Analysis

  On November 11 to 14, the d10e conference on financial technologies was held in Davos, Switzerland. Among the topics were FinTech, ICO, blockchain, sharing economy. RAISON, a project by ITMO’s small innovative enterprise “Intellectual Information Systems” (IIS) and Threesixty Elements S.A. was presented there. In the near future, RAISON will become an investor’s pocket assistant: the system analyses the market, news and historical data to advise users on investment strategies. The project is based on elements of the AI system AKIL.IO developed by IIS. Denis Zhuk, AKIL.IO’s sales manager and PhD student at ITMO, and Andrey Gordeychuk, head of IIS, talk about RAISON and the integration of new technologies into the investment ecosystem.

  29.11.2017

• Game Development Education on the Rise in Russia

  According to Newzoo, the global games market will reach almost 109 billion dollars by the end of 2017. University programs that train future game developers also grow in number. The Russian games market is expected to reach 1.4 billion by the end of this year, say Newzoo. However there are still very few game development programs in Russia. Where and how can one learn the subject and can universities train developers and managers at an acceptable level? This was the topic of a panel discussion at the GameDev Meetup organized by GameBeets community. The event’s organizers and speakers spoke with ITMO.NEWS about the future of game development in higher education, talent shortage, market needs and the reasons why neural networks can’t replace humans – at least for now.

  14.07.2017

• ITMO and Acronis Open New IT Lab

  The new laboratory will give students the opportunity to work on tasks developed by Acronis under the guidance of the top IT gurus. Being mostly devoted to research purposes these projects can become a base for theses and scientific articles. 

  10.04.2017

• From Entertainment to Medicine: Programmers Presented their Projects at AI Hackathon

  The AI Hackathon took place in the Higher School of Economics last weekend. Fifty seven teams presented ML, DL and AI technologies for solving medical, financial, social and many other problems. During the hackathon’s finals, 38 teams presented their projects in a three-minute pitch format.

  14.03.2017