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• Digital Breakthrough Hackathon: 300,000 Rubles for 42 Hours of Coding

  900 IT specialists from all around Russia participated in the recent hackathon Digital Breakthrough. Season: Artificial Intelligence. Over the course of three days, they searched for solutions to cases provided by the event’s partner companies. At the end, the 18 best teams shared the hackathon’s prize pool of 3,600,000 rubles. The competition took place at ITMO University.

  14.10.2024

• Recap of the International GenAI School by ITMO University in Dubai

  Researchers from ITMO’s Research Center “Strong AI in Industry” gave a series of lectures on generative AI at the SP Jain School of Global Management. The course ran from September 23 to October 4 at the school’s campus in Dubai, UAE, and resulted in seven projects on language model applications.

  10.10.2024

• Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Discoveries in Machine Learning and Neural Networks

  This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” In this article, Anton Kuznetsov, the head of ITMO’s Institute of Applied Computer Science, explains the significance of their work – and how it led to ChatGPT.

  08.10.2024

• ITMO and Tatneft Develop Industrial AI Assistant

  Researchers from ITMO and Tatneft have designed the Digital Expert Council – a smart LLM-based platform for the staff of the oil and gas company. The system can answer questions from various fields of Tatneft’s focus, conduct brainstorming sessions, and assist with strategic decisions. In the future, the AI-based platform may assist in accelerating business processes and boosting corporate performance. The product was unveiled by the partners at the forum Kazan Digital Week 2024.

  18.09.2024

• ITMO Names Russia’s Open-Source Software Leaders

  Researchers from ITMO’s Research Center “Strong AI in Industry” surveyed the trends in development and application of open-source software for machine learning and data processing in Russia. It turned out that Yandex, Sberbank, and T-Bank are the three leaders in Russian open-source solutions. The survey also demonstrated the top five projects in various categories based on the opinions of experts from Russian big tech and universities, as well as open data from GitHub and PyPI.

  16.09.2024

• ITMO First Vice Rector Daria Kozlova: AI Paves the Way for Personalized Education

  The main purpose of AI in education is not to provide the answers, but to help students find them. And for that, believes ITMO’s First Vice Rector Daria Kozlova, it’s crucial to learn to critically assess information. She expressed this view during a discussion on AI in higher education that was held by the Russian News Agency TASS.

  13.09.2024

• Not Just Memes: Education Expert Andrey Komissarov on Benefits of AI in Education

  Searching for information, generating training videos, memes, presentations, and individual tasks – the ways in which neural networks are used in education today are many. But what else can AI do – and can it help create a deeply personalized learning plan for every student? The question was tackled by Andrey Komissarov, a learning methodologist and head of the AI track at SberUniversity, in a recent online intensive course at ITMO University.

  10.09.2024

• AI for the Classroom: Tips and Tools

  AI is not just a toy for generating images. According to Gartner, by 2025 around 80% of IT products will be developed with AI. Businesses use bots for client communication, launch neural network-based apps, and deploy algorithms to test cybersecurity systems. Educators, too, can benefit from the new technologies. How? Read on to find out with tips from ITMO lecturers Elena Ponomareva, Artem Sigaev, and Oksana Nakonechnaya.

  04.09.2024

• ITMO CONF 2024: Ethics, Business, and Education in the Age of AI

  ITMO CONF 2024, held under the motto “AI is everywhere,” gathered together eminent university experts at the Nikolskiye Ryady space to discuss AI applications in research, education, and business, as well as ITMO’s strategy in the ever-changing world.

  03.09.2024

• Chemistry, Robots, and Cybersecurity: Highlights of AI Summer School by AIRI and ITMO’s AES

  80 young scientists from all over the country joined the Summer with AIRI school in AI organized by AIRI and ITMO’s Advanced Engineering School (AES). At the end, the participants presented 25 group projects – winners of this stage will get to continue their research under the supervision of experienced researchers.

  02.09.2024