ITMO University Digest: Study, Sports Programming and Science

With the help of this collection, you can get to know ITMO University in practice. Here we write about how our students study and relax, talk about sports programming, scientific work and other areas of activity that we pay attention to. (20,7k) Non-classical university entrance

One of the most striking stories in our blog. Enrollment in a university as a bug bounty: a search for vulnerabilities and a story about it on Habré attracted the attention of ITMO University management, which suggested Ilya Glebov, a student from Monchegorsk, study at the University’s educational program “Information Security Technologies” in the mega-faculty “Computer Technologies and Management”.

(12.8k) Big interview: how to enter ITMO University

Anna Veklich, First Deputy Chairman of the Admissions Committee and Head of the Strategic Communications Department of ITMO University, will help to figure this out. We are talking about entering the bachelor's and master's program, we are talking about the University as a whole and the disciplines that are developing at megafaculties. This is a very large material with examples and insights. Its main task is to help understand the situation and decide on the choice of direction.

(9,3k) We begin training IT-specialists in the field of neurotechnology

The market of neurotechnologies has already reached a volume of a couple of hundred million dollars and can grow to a billion in the next 10-15 years. We are talking about the prospects and features of training specialists in neurotechnologies (and here you can read about the preparation of Data Scientists and the results of a thematic seminar).

(8.5k) Materials for future bachelors, masters and graduate students

There are even more materials for those who would like to understand how ITMO University is structured, what is happening as part of the admission campaign, how to develop their abilities at the university and what it all gives (according to our graduates).

(4.9k) How is your career developing after ITMO University?

We talked with graduates of different years, and they told us about their achievements. Who they were “then” and what is happening in their life “now”, what ITMO University helped in building a career: this is in the material.

(2,5k) Besides science: what else are our students interested in

Studying, competitions and olympiads is not all that our community “lives” with. A little about how the " ice is melting " (and Hirsch is growing), about sports, music and the creative success of ITMO University.

Programming as a sport

(4.7k) ACM ICPC 2017: Final Results

ACM ICPC is the largest student team programming competition. Here we briefly disclose how the event took place in 2017, and also about the problems and solutions that the finalists worked on.

(6.4k) ACM ICPC Live Stream: How It Works

A little bit about the history of ACM ICPC broadcasts. How do they get content, what devices and technologies do they use where they cannot reach the wires, what happens at the stage of content processing, and how all this is organized on the Web.

(20.9k) How to Be the First in Sports Programming: Part 1 and Part 2

We launched the course on the edX platform. It is called How to Win Coding Competitions: Secrets of Champions. In the first part, we talk about this project, share the “minimum program” and “chips”, discuss teamwork and “pitfalls”. In the second - in addition to life hacks and tips, we talk about the role of psychology, relaxation and the usefulness of the course for IT professionals.

(49.9k) How Students Become Advanced Programmers

Material from our Golden Fund. How are students preparing, starting from the first year of study; how to independently “pump” knowledge and skills with the help of additional resources; and briefly about the "school" of winners in the olympiads.

The science

(21.1k) Open Online Courses from ITMO University

Here we have collected the very same MOOC'i that you can sign up remotely and try your hand at programming, photonics, rheology, optics and other areas of knowledge. For the most popular courses, we made separate publications. For example, a story about MOOC " Programming and Web Application Development " with comments by its author.

(15,8k) How programs are designed: from UML to an automated approach

We open the “scientific block” of the digest with material on automatic programming . Here we write about the transition to automata and why UML did not “take off”. We also have special digests for those who want to join Data Science , research in the field of image processing and computer modeling , and a little about education .

(8.2k) How a lack of real research is ruining technological projects

Here we look at the hype cases like Theranos, write about the “doubtfully smart” circle, the “ring of the future” BioRing and lucid dreams with Luci. What is the danger of unconfirmed data - we discuss this in our material.

(7k) DNA, new technologies and the human genome: Bioinformatics at ITMO University

Acquaintance with bioinformatics and our thematic developments. One of the first materials in our blog on Habrahabr.

(4k) Second Generation Cloud Computing: CLAVIRE System

We are thinking about why the Application as a Service model is considered more promising than the familiar SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, and how the developers and scientists of ITMO University implement such a model in the framework of the CLAVIRE project.

Miscellaneous

(3,4k) Teachers, graduates and students of ITMO University in Habré

Our blog is far from the only source of information about projects and the life of the ITMO University community in Habré. We recommend subscribing to the blogs of our fellow habragers, whose materials often appear in selections of the best publications on this site.

(5.1k) Results of the year: Big New Year's Digest of ITMO University

And we also make many other collections on various topics related to our activities. For example, we write about residents of a startup accelerator in, we analyze materials on the topic of WannaCry , find resources on artificial intelligence, and collect interesting articles on the topic of neural networks .

(47.6k) Cycle of materials on speed reading: Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3

Speed ​​reading works or not - we dealt with the clarification of this issue within the framework of all three materials on the topic - and the discussion continued in the comments on the materials.