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• Movies We Watch Over the Holidays

  For most of us, winter holidays are inextricably linked to movies, cartoons, and specials, dutifully watched year after year. Their welcoming familiarity warms our hearts, adding a much-craved touch of wonder to cold winter days. Here is our selection of the most festive, cozy, and cheerful movies we find ourselves returning to every December. Spot any of your favorites?

  23.12.2022

• ITMO Named Best Within Priority 2030 Program

  Last year marked the launch of Priority 2030, a national program aimed at comprehensive development of the Russian higher education system. According to a recent performance review conducted by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education, ITMO has demonstrated the highest results among the participants of the program’s research leadership track. This achievement secured the university with an additional 820 million rubles in funding to be received alongside the core part of the grant in 2023.

  23.12.2022

• Key Facts About the Second Season of ITMO’s Mega Contest

  With ITMO’s Mega Contest, you can enter the university’s Master’s programs without entrance exams. Having launched in the 2021-2022 academic year, the contest is now in its second season. Here’s all you need to know about it. 

  23.12.2022

• In It To Win It: In Conversation With Two-Time AI Journey Contest Winner Ammar Ali

  Ammar Ali, a PhD student at ITMO’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty, has had a fruitful two years: since 2021, he has been twice named the winner of the machine learning contest run by the American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (with support from NASA) and, just as many times – a winner of Sberbank’s AI Journey Contest. And that’s not to mention that this year, he secured a victory in three tracks out of four, all while competing solo. Speaking to ITMO.NEWS, Ammar reveals what his biggest challenges were at the contests – and what helped him win.

  22.12.2022

• ITMO University Hosts Its First What? Where? When? Tournament

  Having brought together around 200 specialists from various departments, the university’s first What? Where? When? quiz contest, which launched in October, has recently ended with a grand finale. ITMO.NEWS went to this closing game, hosted by star player Mikhail Mun, to learn the secrets of the winning team.

  21.12.2022

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 24-25, 2022

  The next weekend will be the last one in 2022 (if we don’t count December 31), so we are here to help you make it count. Two festive concerts, a Christmas market – because who would we be without one – and ice rinks in the city center. Enjoy!

  21.12.2022

• Passing Exams, Writing Papers, and Describing Art: Why Neural Networks Won’t Replace Scientists, Writers and Journalists

  A new version of the ChatGPT chatbot, belonging to the acclaimed GPT-3 family of language models, was published in late November. The developers made significant updates to the chatbot, adding a plethora of new features – for instance, the neural network is now capable of producing texts in a specific style, coming up with arguments that support its statements, and making references to its sources or specific works of literature. As it turns out, it can even write an essay for the Unified State Exam in the Russian language – such an experiment was conducted by philologists from the Higher School of Economics along with Andrey Getmanov, a student of ITMO’s Big Data and Machine Learning Master’s program. We spoke with Andrey to better understand the capabilities of neural networks, and find out whether they will replace scholars, writers, and journalists in the near future.

  20.12.2022

• ITMO Launches Open-Source Mentorship Program

  ITMO’s Research Center “Strong AI in Industry” has launched an open-source mentorship program that will allow students to work at the university, helping research groups develop open-source frameworks and libraries. Read on to learn about the program’s perks.

  20.12.2022

• Top Projects of ITMO’s First FoodTech Accelerator

  In 2022, ITMO launched its first accelerator for foodtech projects, where participants learned to manage teams, choose the most appropriate markets for their products, and attract investments. Read on to learn more about the projects that went through to the final and were presented in front of experts.

  19.12.2022

• Contractor Named for Second and Third Construction Phases of ITMO Highpark

  A tender for the execution of engineering works at ITMO Highpark went to the architectural bureau Studio 44, which expects to complete the design for the second and third stages by late 2023. 

  19.12.2022