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• ITMO University Hosts Its First What? Where? When? Tournament

  … better way to do it than in a game of What? Where? When?, which places a great emphasis on the team. It’s only by building on each other’s ideas and not just following the captain’s lead that the toughest questions can be cracked,” explained Ekaterina Stenina, an organizer of the event and a manager at ITMO’s Recruiting and Internal Communications Center.  |s=1…

  21.12.2022

• Passing Exams, Writing Papers, and Describing Art: Why Neural Networks Won’t Replace Scientists, Writers and Journalists

  …it write technical documentation and check pieces of code for bugs. An essay that’s on point But no one has yet checked whether an essay fully written by GPT-3 can obtain a passing grade in a real exam. Two students from top Russian universities, Maxim Dremov of HSE and Andrey Getmanov of ITMO, decided to run such a test. Maxim studies at the School of Phil…

  20.12.2022

• Top Projects of ITMO’s First FoodTech Accelerator

  …mportant role in plant growth, a surplus of it contributes to water, soil, and air pollution. Therefore, one common mistake in agrochemistry is incorrect dosage of nitrogen-containing fertilizers. As a solution to this problem, the project’s team suggested a biodegradable coating that will cut down on nitrogen emissions into the atmosphere. The novel encapsulated …

  19.12.2022

• The Future of AI: ITMO Scientists Present Cutting-Edge Projects

  …boast automatic model generation, optimized pipelines for more accurate predictions, data and models validation, plus a larger and more detailed library and storage for data obtained from metadata modeling, namely, input characteristics and modeling results. This newly introduced feature makes it possible to save time and resources. The key mission of FEDOT.Industria…

  16.12.2022

• The Results of ITMO’s First Large-Scale Study of Quality of Life in Academia

  …ke to study the lesser-known yet no less crucial health conditions, such as eating disorders and chronic eye diseases. For instance, we use a special mobile fundus camera to obtain appropriate images of the fundus and eyes to study eye diseases in an academic environment. We hope that the university’s expertise in computer vision will help address students’ vision pr…

  15.12.2022

• ITMO Scientists Win the First Blue Sky Research Innovative Scientific Projects Contest

  … development of new technological products and the formation of interuniversity teams. “We anticipate that the primary breakthroughs might transpire at the junction of certain avenues of research, so it was important for us to bring together professionals in chemistry, biology, and medicine. And in order to accelerate the advancement of their scientific interest…

  15.12.2022

• Evolution Responsible? ITMO Researchers Identify Evolutionary Adaptations Connected To Autoimmune Diseases and Allergies

  …of the genome with dozens of genes that can have thousands of genetic mutations. Therefore, at this stage of mapping, researchers can only identify wide genome regions that contain the coveted mutations (variants). Moreover, the existing mapping methods are based on chip data obtained when the genome isn’t read but rather coated with ma…

  14.12.2022

• Get to know ITMO’s Russian Language Teachers

  … Svetlana Dorofeeva, Foreign Language Training Center What is your favorite spot in St. Petersburg? I love the courtyard of the Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House, especially in the summer, when passersby can play the piano located there. What's a movie everyone should watch? Across the Universe by Julie Taymor. What’s your favorite Ru…

  13.12.2022

• Evidence-Based Education: How Data Improves Learning & Teaching

  …100 years ago by American psychologist Louis Thurstone, who came up with the learning curve equation. Coined in 1919, the learning curve describes how a person’s skill in a certain task changes through time or depending on their experience. This concept is still in use today, for instance, in adaptive learning systems, where educational content is hand-picked for eac…

  12.12.2022

• ITMO Named Russia’s Best Technical University in RUR Subject Rankings

  …e global subject ranking, ITMO remained in the top 50, this year being 48th on the list. All in all, the ranking includes 90 Russian universities, among which the university retains its leadership for the third year in a row. The mission of the RUR system is to help students, members of the academia, university management, and state officials evaluate and choose u…

  09.12.2022