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ITMO’s Technopark Resident MerkleBot Receives an Award at the World’s Largest Developer Conference
…ed to be handled. MerkleBot partnered up with TechStars, a major American start-up accelerator, who took interest in the new technology. The only issue MerkleBot is yet to solve is providing technical expertise, as highly competent specialists are few and banks themselves cannot truly assess manufacturing processes. The company is now entering the negotiations an…
02.03.2020
Students of Three European Universities Visit Russia to Study Closed-Loop Economy on the Example of St. Petersburg Companies
…ons more environmentally friendly – Unilever, Baltika, TPV, and Bushe. The companies gave a short overview of their main activities and provided the participants with tasks by solving which the latter can help the former become more resource-effective and eco-friendly. The students have a month and a half to prepare their final project – in late March, they w…
28.02.2020
Scientists Develop Algorithm for Researching Evolutionary History of Species with Whole-genome Duplications
…y of species will whole-genome duplications, a scientist faces a whole series of tasks that serve a similar purpose but have very different mathematical structure. In order to solve them effectively, you need optimization. For this purpose, an international team of scientists that included specialists from ITMO University and the George Washington University (USA) pr…
27.02.2020
Clarivate Analytics Expert on Why Russian Researchers Are Cited Less and Universities Aren’t Included in Innovation Rankings
…st, and a historian, the geneticist will probably win by far, even if they aren’t as prominent in the research community as the other two. This problem can be partially solved by the normalized citation impact factor: it’s a fraction with the amount of references in the denominator and average amount of references to other articles of that sort, year and field…
26.02.2020
ITMO FabLab: DIY Coworking Space For the Creative
… own, help them develop their ideas, and maybe launch startups. It also offers workshops on working with various equipment, programming and the TRIZ (TIPS) approach to problem-solving. Available equipment The university chose the equipment they bought for the laboratory based on a poll they took among the students. As a result, our FabLab is now equipped with M…
25.02.2020
Where They're Always Glad to Help: Inside the New Student Services Office at ITMO University
Digitalization of Construction, Helping Dyslexic Kids and an Online Training Bot: The Graduates of ITMO’s Pre-Accelerator
…ing system for financing in the construction sector. There is a lot of documentation in the construction industry, and the project's goal is to digitize it. This would help to solve the basic problems as it will eliminate the need to keep a massive, hard-to-navigate paper archive, will make the process of applying for and receiving approval for architectural projects…
20.02.2020
A Mechanized Future: Sberbank’s Alexey Gonnochenko on the 10 Challenges of Robotics
…boratory adheres to these core principles: everything we do should be applied, one way or another, in the bank, and we must clearly envision the results. But we do not only solve the problems of the bank, for it is not an end in itself, it is rather a platform for experiments. We are aiming to expand our development globally, to enter the international market with…
19.02.2020
Entrepreneur, Law Firm Founder, and Master’s Student Rodion Juryev: You Only Live When You Learn
…s. Do you plan to continue your education? Yes, I’d like to get a PhD. At ITMO? Yes, absolutely. I’d like to explore issues of artificial intelligence, such as solving syllogisms, which AI can’t handle yet. I’d love to make some advancements in this field by using new methodologies. Why ITMO University? Firstly, because it is the strongest progr…
19.02.2020
Codeforces Founder Mikhail Mirzayanov: How the Biggest Competitive Programming Platform Has Changed Over the Past 10 Years
…rces’ existence? A lot, and I think Codeforces played a part in it, as well. Ten years ago, the community was disorganized, and participants from different countries seldom solved each other’s tasks. I believe there was quite a rift between the development state of the Internet communications and technologies and the community’s operation. Codeforces has become…
18.02.2020