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• ACM ICPC-2017 Totalizator: Who Will Win The Championship?

• The Power of Light: How Lighting Design Affects Our Lives

  …seva. The problems of humanization, ecology, urbanization and culture are most important topics that people of art have to have an opinion on. When it will be the era of total artificial intelligence, people will yet again focus on understanding themselves. This is why a lighting design specialist's most important task is to focus on the problems the modern soci…

  22.05.2017

• Training IT Specialists for Global Financial Systems – ITMO’s New Programs and Collaborations

  …e of work, everything has to be done by yesterday. Another peculiarity is that we have to work according to very strict regulations. And sometimes the new regulations come totally unexpected. For instance, the financial market didn't have anything to do with Big Data until the new regulations stating that companies have to store particular information for the past…

  18.05.2017

• ITMO University Graduates Will Help Integrate Technological Innovations

  …nd to come in pairs. Students pick one out of the two, thus deciding on their program track. In the case of our program, an elective module contains five courses. There are a total of 17 courses, and they are all structured in a way that allows students to take all 17 courses in a program track and receive a complex professional education not just as someone who can …

  17.05.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …en forests all over the world—almost enough for a second Amazon—in areas with little moisture known as drylands. The host 40% more forest than thought, making it a 9% bump in total global forest coverage. Anticancer nanomaterials inspired by volcano. Researchers at Aalto University, Finland, have developed anticancer nanomaterials by simulating the volcano-induced…

  15.05.2017

• “People Need You!” Contest: Social Entrepreneurship for Children

  …cts at “People Need You!” succeeded at: enlisting donors for blood drives, founding a film festival, staging a charity event for stray animals, as well as many other goals. A total of 40 teams took part in this year’s contest, of which 28 reached the final stage. One day, these children may become successful social entrepreneurs and continue creating volunteer projec…

  12.05.2017

• Psychophysiologist Alexander Kaplan: Why Elon Musk is Weaving “Neural Lace” and Will AI Help Conserve Resources for Human Brain?

  …units? We know perfectly well how a machine “memorizes” information. For example, all the 2,521,613 characters of “War and Peace” can be encoded through memory cells – the total amount of data would equal 2,405Mb (assuming that the novel contains 256 types of characters, one character requires 1 = log2 256 = 8 bits = 1 byte; thus the whole of “War and Peace” would…

  10.05.2017

• Pure Math at ITMO: Students from 11 Countries Took Part in the NCUMC

  …st as it possible, but only three of them can join the official team of this university. Then one sums up the results of these three participants – this amount of points is a total score of the university. Participants have four hours to solve seven tasks. Also they can use English language dictionaries for assistance, as the working language of this international co…

  05.05.2017

• Researchers Develop Word-of-mouth Computer Simulation

  …le and organizers. The latter, for example, make calls often, both to regular and busy people, but have short conversations, while the regular people (who comprise 94% of the total “population”) call less frequently, speak longer and often reach out to their close ones. The speed at which contacts are alerted depends mainly on the nature of a message (normal or em…

  04.05.2017

• Beauty Pageants Are not for Smart People: Winner of Miss ITMO 2017 Was Announced

  …ext winter. Beauty pageants are not for smart people Anna believes that beauty contests are pointless. However, she took part in Miss ITMO, as this contest is something totally different – it doesn’t aim at judging the physical attributes of female participants. Despite the fact that it includes a fancy-dress competition, the judges pay attention to acting skil…

  27.04.2017