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On September 23, 1997, the Yandex search engine was unveiled at the SofTool Exhibition.

Yet another conference 2017 was held at Yandex.

Gregory Tareyev, a Software Engineering student, a co-founder and iOS developer of Chill shares his experience with the international editorial AppCoda on Apple Watch development and shows how to build a simple weather app.

On July 13th-17th 2015, the 10th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia took place. The largest conference on theoretical informatics in Russia was organized by Irkutsk State University, the Higher School of Economics and Yandex. Vladimir Podolskii, Associate Professor at the Big Data and Information Retrieval School took part in the event as guest speaker. Maxim Babenko, Head of the Joint Department with Yandex also delivered a report during the event.

Teaching assistant of our department (Sergey Bartunov) is starting his three-month internship in DeepMind, a research division of Google. There he will work on developing new methods of deep learning and on new new architectures of neural netowkrs.

August 27-30, St.-Petersburg. MLHEP summer school is intended to cover the relatively young area of data analysis and computational research that has started to emerge in High Energy Physics (HEP).

The Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge, the largest international competition in data analysis and machine learning came to a close on 15 September. Second year MA computer science MA student Stanislav Semenov won 7th place in the final count, crowning 4 months of intense work.

On July 25, the World Final of the International Collegiate Programming Contest, sponsored by theAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM), took place in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The HSE was represented at the competition by a team of graduates – Vyacheslav Alipov, Mikhail Kolupayev, and Alexander Kuprin – from the master's programme of HSE’s Joint Department with Yandex, which is part of the Faculty of Computer Science's School of Applied Mathematics and Information Science. The team took home the bronze medal, finishing in 10th place.