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• The Internet is Aging Fast: Yandex’s Grigory Bakunov on 2020’s Tech Trends

  Throughout last week, ITMO hosted the events of the “I am a Professional” competition’s Winter School. 180 students from 43 Russian regions came to this educational program that was organized by ITMO in collaboration with Sberbank. On its first day, Grigory Bakunov, director of technology distribution at Yandex, gave a lecture on trends that will affect business and technologies in the near future.

  17.02.2020

• Quantum Computing: Challenges, Prospects, and Current Developments

  IBM has recently announced its plans to begin commercial sales of quantum computers in the next three to five years. As the company’s VP Norishige Morimoto explained, this will happen once the US tech giant’s quantum computers surpass the computational capacities of current-day supercomputers. How realistic are these plans? What challenges do researchers still face in the development of quantum computers? Scientists from Russia and abroad discussed the latest trends in quantum technology during ITMO University’s seminar Quantum Machine Learning. Published below are the key highlights of a lecture by Oleksandr Kyriienko, who came to ITMO as part of the ITMO Fellowship program.

  10.06.2019