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• SHA2017: Summer Camp for Hackers

  … to adjust election results in ways unintended by the state. The Human Rights Foundation’s North Korea Program held a presentation for SHA2017 attendees about fighting total government control using informational technology: USB-drives, DVD disks and shortwave radio. The program uses these means to help promote freedom of thought in North Korea. The camp ar…

  14.08.2017

• Dmitriy Andrianov: We've Lost Our Opportunity To Develop IT-Outsourcing Industry

  …me to work at DataArt. At that time, I wasn't sure whether changing my job was a good thing to do, but the pay at DataArt was two times higher. For my new job, I had to solve totally different tasks. DataFont was a production company, and DataArt focused on service, though I didn't know it then; hence, I had to learn a lot. For instance, I never worked with Unix befo…

  11.08.2017

• Project Session at Sirius: Implants, Security and Nano-Shampoo

  …d Stanislav Lukashenko took on the roles of project leads. The team also invited expert speakers to give lectures to the entirety of the Science school’s students (150 out of total 400). “The students were selected for the session based on their project work: for six months, they worked on projects and then sent their complete solutions to experts in the form of…

  10.08.2017

• Levan Tatunashvili: Focusing On One's Own Resources Only is No Good

  …to be some centers that provide knowledge on such technologies and can provide expert advice to those who want to use them in their projects. Those technologies are something totally new, so having a network-based infrastructure is most important, as sufficient knowledge of them can't be concentrated in one place. On the current stage, we are to understand how these …

  08.08.2017

• How Neural Networks Help Scientists

  …the image. To help the software learn this skill, developers had to separate the background from the object in 30,000 images.  Teleport has already received investments for a total of 1 million USD. As of now, the app has been downloaded more than 1.5 million times. A number of similar photo editing apps have seen similar success before. In the summer of 2016, the…

  08.08.2017

• ITMO University has moved up in Webometrics Ranking

  …tion methodology was changed for several criteria; this time, the improvements concern a change in weight of each of the indicators. The Presence indicator, which denotes the total number of Google-indexed web pages hosted on a university’s main domain, lost in its importance to the overall ranking: from 10% to 5%. The Openness indicator, denoting a university’s numb…

  04.08.2017

• ITMO and South Korea Launch SumIT Startup School

  …g together the graduates of these two international programs, since that will allow the teams to show their projects to as many sponsors, experts and investors as possible. A total of ten startups will be present at Demo Day,” – shares Elena Gavrilova. …

  02.08.2017

• ITMO Admissions Campaign 2017: Current Results

  … monthly scholarship payment of 15 thousand rubles, lodging at a dormitory in the city center and a set of branded ITMO merchandise. This status is granted to those whose USE total over three subjects is equal or higher than 285 and to winners of top-tier national and international Olympiads. 181 students will gain the “silver” status and a 10 thousand rubles scholar…

  31.07.2017

• ITMO’s Russian Language Summer School: Gaining New Experiences

  …as blond and blue eyed but I was surprised to see that it’s a very diverse country, there are people who look like Latino or Asian but they were born and raised here, they’re totally local,” shared Steffi Caroline (Indonesia). Ruhi Abbaszadeh from Iran was even so bold as to say “I can confidently say that 90% of what I read in English about Russia is incorrec…

  28.07.2017

• “Night of Light” in Gatchina

  …ring at them. If the viewer stands in the same spot for a while, the eyes will begin to interact with them. They could even wink at them, for example. The installation uses a total of three light spots placed six meters away from the eyes. Gatchina Park. Credit: turisticum.ru The project also uses sound effects. Whenever one approaches the eyes, they will hea…

  27.07.2017