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• ICO-Hypethon: Will Bitcoin Take Over The World?

  ICO-Hypethon, a unique conference and hackathon in the field of cryptocurrency has recently taken place in the Street Art Museum creative space. Experts and users of bitcoin, blockchain technologies and platforms for attracting crypto-investments gathered in St. Petersburg to discuss the prospects of cryptocurrencies, their legal status and role in modern economy. The event also featured a hackathon of ICO projects.

  21.08.2017

• European Hackathon Winners Came to ITMO to Study Programming

  The Open Data Hackathon took place in May, in Bolzano (Italy), bringing together developers and data scientists from all across Europe. For 24 hours, the teams worked on creating a working prototype based on one of their ideas. The winners of the hackathon took the main prize: a trip to St. Petersburg for a two-day intensive programming course at ITMO University. This year, ITMO has become a seven-time winner of ACM ICPC and remains the world record holder for most wins

  18.07.2017

• A Specialist in Photonics Doing IT: ITMO's Master's Student Wins the Hackathon in Singapore

  Finding suspicious transactions, creating his own bitcoin, choosing a unique application for a particular client and finally winning the hackathon of Singapore's largest bank DBS - this is the story of Pavel Dmitriev, ITMO's Master's student and engineer at the Department of Nano-Photonics and Metamaterials who is currently doing an internship atSingapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research. In an interview to ITMO.NEWS, he shared his experience and explained why a scientist focusing on photonics should know programming, how to not give up after almost everything you've done fails, how to surprise the jury and finally decline a great job offer in order to pursue science.

  07.04.2017

• 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

• "Genome Tetris" and Analyzing Fly Behavior: BioHack — the First Hackathon on Bioinformatics

  Last weekend, ITMO hosted St. Petersburg's first hackathon on bioinformatics — BioHack. For 48 hours, 24 teams analyzed thousands of science articles, modeled evolutionary processes, developed bioinformatics games and software which analyzes movement of flies, sequenced cheetah's genome and solved other similar tasks. Read about the event in detail in our article.

  09.03.2017

• Junction Hackathon — New Solutions for VR Gear

  Junction, one of the world's biggest technological hackathons, has recently ended in Helsinki. Young developers competed in 11 contests, each being a project that had to be completed in 48 hours. A team comprised of ITMO and Polytechnical university students created a new technology for controlling virtual reality. Their invention can ease the use of VR considerably, as well as decrease the costs of VR devices.

  05.01.2017

• "Hide and Kill" Game: ITMO Students Know How to Have Fun at Office Parties

  Can’t stand your colleagues and boss? Japanese relieve stress by beating special toys covered with portraits of colleagues. ITMO students tried to solve this problem by creating an AR game, which lets colleagues kill each other virtually.

  29.12.2016

• "Searching for Lost Kitties": ITMO student Develops an App for Finding Lost Pets

  Maksim Averin, a student at ITMO University, and his team "3bots" won the audience choice award at the Vkontakte hackathon that took place at the end of November. The hackathon's participants were impressed by their "Searching for Lost Kitty's" app. Maxim Averin shared how they got the idea of an application that helps find lost pets.

  06.12.2016