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  • ITMO University Takes Silver at ICPC Northern Eurasia Finals

    During this week’s ICPC Northern Eurasia Finals, a team from ITMO University placed fifth overall and joined others who will represent the region during the global finals in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

    15.04.2022

  • Moscow Claims ICPC Champion Title for Second Year in a Row

    On April 4, the final stage of the International Collegiate Programming Contest took place in Porto (Portugal). A team from Moscow has claimed the champion title of the world’s oldest and most prestigious programming contest. This year’s winners represented the Lomonosov Moscow State University, who won last year’s contest with the same line-up. In second place is the team from MIT. It was also announced that next year’s ICPC will take place at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).

    04.04.2019

  • Russian Programmers Prepare For ICPC-2019

    On December 2, ITMO University was among the universities that hosted the semi-finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). More than 100 student teams from the European part of Russia, the Ural region, Belarus and the Baltic states competed for the right to take part in the final stage of the world’s largest programming contest, which will take place in Porto, Portugal next year. The team from Lomonosov Moscow State University, champions of this year’s ICPC, emerged as winners in the semi-final stage.

    04.12.2018

  • “Quantum Potential” Science Stand-Up Show Returns In Second Installment

    What’s the difference between programming and football championships? What makes theoretical physicists cooler than lifestyle bloggers? Last Friday, Tantsploshchadka club in St. Petersburg held the second Quantum Potential stand-up comedy show, organized by ITMO University. QP is a place for scientists to joke about their work and introduce some much-needed levity to science. This time around, the list of jokesters included Computer Technologies Department tutor Lidia Perovskaya, physicist Anton Kozubov, chemist Mikhail Kurushkin and a special guest: Russia’s youngest stand-up comedian Boris Zeliger.

    17.07.2018

  • ITMO Prepares for ACM ICPC

    Students from ITMO’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty Vladimir Smykalov, Adam Bardashevich and Grigory Shovkoplyas recently hosted a winter training camp for Chinese collegiate programming teams in Beijing. Meanwhile, ITMO University’s team, who are slated to participate in the competition’s final stage, attended a training camp in Petrozavodsk where they entered the top 3 teams in attendance. Both events happened earlier this month. Camps are a major part of training for the ACM ICPC finale and are a good indicator of the participants’ chances at winning.

    13.02.2018

  • ITMO Team Passes ACM ICPC Regionals, Will Compete for World Cup in Beijing

    On December 3, the semi-finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest were held at ITMO University. The university was one of the four venues for the Northern Eurasia regional contest for Russia and CIS countries, in which more than 300 teams participated. 16 teams were selected to take part in the final stage of the contest, which will take place in Beijing in April of 2018. ITMO University’s team is also among them,

    04.12.2017

  • Andrey Stankevich: Komsomolskaya Pravda’s Media-Person of the Year

    On July 4 the St. Petersburg office of Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper announced the thirteen winners of its “Media-Person of the Year – 2017” awards that are given to notable subjects of the year’s news stories. In summer, celebrities gather at Krestovsky Island for the award ceremony. One of this year’s winners is Andrey Stankevich - Associate Professor at ITMO’s Computer Technologies Department and coach for ITMO’s programming team. His protégés have become winners of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest on seven occasions – a world record that is yet to be broken.

    10.07.2017

  • Champions of ACM ICPC-2017: ITMO University’s team returns to St. Petersburg

    Ivan Belonogov, Vladimir Smykalov and Ilya Zban, who became world champions last Wednesday, and their coach, Andrey Stankevich, brought home the World Champion Cup in collegiate programming. This is the university’s seventh victory. No other university in the world has managed to beat ITMO University’s world record for number of ACM ICPC Champion titles.

    30.05.2017