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• ITMO Students Develop Multiplatform App for Social Project on Urban Orienteering

  In February 2019, ITMO University’s Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies hosted a career guidance hackathon. Among the winners were four students – Ilya Zakoulov, Maksim Pahmurin, Denis Arlakov, and Rostislav Nurdinov – who developed an app for a social project about urban orienteering. After the competition, the team decided to continue developing their app, now in collaboration with the team of that social project. Now, their multiplatform app has exited development and become a part of the project. More about the app, urban orienteering, and the boons of cooperation below.

  26.11.2019

• University of Amsterdam Professor on the Importance of Crowd Behavior Research and Putting Minecraft to Good Use

  Human behavior analysis is one of the most important and complex contemporary research topics. It can be used for designing safe and reliable structures and spaces to help people during evacuations and other emergency situations. Working as part of a research group, a University of Amsterdam professor Michael Lees has developed a Minecraft-inspired game that was used for studying human behavior in emergencies forcing people to navigate their way through an unknown territory. Prof. Lees unveiled the findings during his ITMO University lecture, dedicated to the development of a new game-based experimental approach aimed at achieving a better scientific understanding of humans. 

  11.10.2018

• Master of Sports Anastasia Murzina: “Orienteering Helps Better Understand Multidimensional Space”

  It is quite common that a favorite hobby or sports activity helps one solve research tasks. Einstein, for instance, often played music while contemplating his ideas. ITMO Master’s student Anastasia Murzina focuses on chemoinformatics and works for the Computer Technologies international laboratory. In her free time, she’s already travelled all over Russia and became a Master of Sports in orienteering. We spoke to Anastasia about how orienteering helps her solve research tasks, what kinds of knowledge are most relevant for a programmer, and why sport and science have a lot more in common than one would think.

  18.09.2018