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• You Can Fight the World and Win: ITMO Graduate Kirill Rivkin on DataArt, Studies in the US and His Startup

  …ecided to give myself the chance to make sure I was right, so I spent ten months as a postdoc researcher. As a result, I only became certain in my decision.  Why?  I must warn you that this answer will be coming from someone who failed in academia, so don’t expect it to be objective. Compared to the industry, a job in academia gives you one important advant…

  05.10.2020

• Media Research Group’s Aleksandr Farseev On Advertising Algorithms and Social Network Monopolies

  …’s a fascinating and extremely complex task because bots don’t post the same stuff – they train on content made by real people. In this way, Facebook’s artificial intelligence must constantly train, too, in order to avoid accidentally blocking real content. It’s extremely hard because millions of messages are sent every minute. So it’s a constant race, like the on…

  01.10.2020

• Scientists Manage to Capture Light in a Polymeric Quasicrystal

  …e and not extinguish it either, but to retain it in itself for some time – something like a light “trap” is needed. “For example, for laser or sensors operation, the wave must pass through the working area of the device several times to enhance the efficiency of its interaction with an active element,” explains Mikhail Rybin. “It's especially crucial to create s…

  28.09.2020

• Computer Graphics and Machine Learning Conference GraphiCon-2020 Begins in St. Petersburg

  …ine learning technologies used for customs inspection,” explains Sergei Bykovskii. “When you put your suitcase on the conveyor belt at the airport or railway station, a device must be able to identify whether you’re carrying anything illegal. The hackathon’s participants will develop and train neural networks able to recognize these dangerous objects.” The compe…

  23.09.2020

• ITMO University Hosts Virtual Smart-Up Camp 'Innovations for Smart Cities in BSR'

  … Teamwork was well organized and moderated, but it seemed to me that it was more difficult to keep everyone engaged than it was during those in-person sessions in Gdansk. I must admit that I would probably have not joined the event if it had taken place in St. Petersburg, so the virtual camp was a blessing for me.…

  17.09.2020

• How Robots Help Us Deal With Online Toxicity

  …n algorithm that’s been trained on recent data to analyze older texts, there will be more errors. And the older the text, the more errors will occur. To avoid that, algorithms must be trained using data from the same timeframe as the text you’re planning to analyze. How do robots tell apart actual toxicity and simple ribbing? Often enough, these and o…

  16.09.2020

• ITMO Researchers Present New Inventions at AGRORUS-2020 Expo

  …ilograms of pure grass,” explains Alexander Ishevsky. “About 500 liters of water go into a single gram of beef protein. At the same time, the animal produces waste, too, which must also be disposed of. What this means is that we expend water and soil and then end up contaminating this very soil with excrement, which can’t always be recycled as fertilizer.” E…

  15.09.2020

• Public Transport in St. Petersburg

  … – it is also a free lesson in Russian history and culture. If you’re interested in learning more, check out our articles on the unspoken rules of Russian transit, the metro’s must-see stations, and even the literary origins of their names. Any self-respecting St. Petersburg native knows the metro map by heart, but even they sometimes have trouble finding the opti…

  15.09.2020

• Blended Learning: Best of Online and Offline

  … actively involved in their studies. These students wish to know why their professors choose to conduct certain classes on-site or remotely. For this reason, the blended model must easily switch between the two modes depending on the students’ needs and motivation levels. Staying in shadows During an end-of-academic-year survey, students were asked what the…

  14.09.2020

• International Opportunities for ITMO Students in 2020

  …mobility program. You can submit an application for the competition until September 20 through your ISU account. This year, in addition to the motivation letter and CV, you must attach a 2-3 minutes-long video resume in which you share something about yourself, your educational program, your work experience (if any), the three selected universities, the reasons wh…

  14.09.2020