ITMO University Digest: study, sports programming and science

With this collection you can get acquainted with ITMO University in practice. Here we write about how our students study and rest, we talk about sports programming, scientific work and other areas of activity to which we pay our attention.



(20,7k) Non-classical admission to university

One of the most prominent stories in our blog. Admission to the university as a bug bounty: search for vulnerabilities and a story about it on Habré attracted the attention of the ITMO University, which suggested Ilya Glebov, a schoolboy from Monchegorsk, to study at the University's educational program "Information Protection Technologies" mega-faculty "Computer Technologies and Management".

(12,8k) Great interview: how to enter ITMO University

Anna Veklich, First Deputy Chairman of the Admissions Committee and Head of the Strategic Communication Department of the ITMO University, will help to clarify this. We are talking about admission to undergraduate and graduate programs, talk about the University as a whole and the disciplines that develop in mega-faculties. This is a very large material with examples and insights. His main task is to help sort out the situation and decide on the choice of direction.

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

The neurotechnology market 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 the training of specialists in neurotechnologies (and here you can read about the preparation of Data Scientists and the results of the thematic workshop).

(8,5k) Materials for future bachelors, masters and graduate students

There are even more materials for those who would like to understand how the ITMO University works, what is happening in the framework of the admissions campaign, how to develop their abilities at the university and what all this gives (according to our graduates).

(4,9k) How is your career after ITMO University?

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

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

Education, competitions and Olympiads - this is not all that our community “lives” with. A little bit about how “ ice melts ” (and Hirsch grows), about sports, music and creative successes 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 reveal how the event took place in 2017, and also about the problems and solutions that the finalists worked on.

(6,4k) ACM ICPC Live Webcast: How it works

A little about the history of ACM ICPC broadcasts. How to get content, what devices and technologies use where to reach the wires, what happens at the stage of content processing and how the output of all this is organized on the Web.

(20,9k) How to become the first in sports programming: Part 1 and Part 2

We run a 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 lifehacks and advice, we talk about the role of psychology, recreation, and the usefulness of the course for IT specialists.

(49,9k) How students become advanced programmers

Material from our "golden fund". How is the preparation of students, starting with the first year of study; how can you independently “pump” knowledge and skills with the help of additional resources; and briefly about the “school” of winners in olympiads.

The science

(21,1k) Open online courses from ITMO University

Here we have collected those very MOOCs, which you can enroll remotely and try your hand at programming, photonics, rheology, optics and other fields of knowledge. For the most popular courses, we have made separate publications. For example, a story about the MOOC “ Programming and Development of Web Applications ” with comments from its author.

(15.8k) How to design programs: from UML to automata approach

We open the "scientific block" of the digest with information about automaton programming . Here we write about the transition to automata and why the 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 the lack of real research ruins technological projects

Here we look at HYIP cases like Theranos, writing about the “dubiously clever” circle, the “ring of the future” BioRing, and lucid dreams with Luci. What is dangerous 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 reflect on 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 the ITMO University implement such a model as part of the CLAVIRE project.

miscellanea

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

Our blog is not 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 harazhiteli, whose materials often appear in the selection of the best publications on this site.

(5.1k) Results of the Year: ITMO University Big Pre- New Year Digest

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

(47,6k) Fast reading reading cycle: Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3

Whether speed reading works or not - we dealt with clarifying this issue in all three materials on the topic - and the discussion continued in the comments to the materials.