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Computer Science programme of the Summer University provides unique opportunities for students from around the world. The programme covers various topics in Computer Science from purely theoretical to applied and practical. Theoretical side of the programme includes both a detailed introduction to the theory of computations and more advanced topics in Artificial Intelligence and Statistical Diagnosis. Practical aspects of the programme are tightly integrated with theoretical material. Participants of the programme will have an opportunity to apply the new knowledge in their own programming experience, for example, in processing of natural languages, creating a distributed computing system or implementing a compiler for a programming language.

The HSE Faculty of Computer Science, where international specialists teach alongside Russian professors and one Master’s programme in System and Software Engineering is taught entirely in English, has launched a public colloquium.

HSE and Yandex have opened a Laboratory for Methods of Big Data Analysis at the HSE Computer Science Faculty (LAMBDA). The purpose of the new academic research lab is to create a world-class research centre to solve fundamental problems in computer science and develop methods for processing and analysing Big Data.

Higher School of Economics and EMC Cloud and Big Data R&D Center in Moscow (Skolkovo) have signed a cooperation agreement, which includes the creation of a Project and Study Group in Bioinformatics. HSE students and lecturers are a key part of the group.

Max Kanovich, Professor of Computer Science, University College London and Andre Scedrov, Chair of the Mathematics Department, University of Pennsylvania deliver a course of lectures on 'Collaborative Systems' at the Faculty of Computer Science from December 16 to December 26.

Mikhail Dubov, master’s student of the Faculty of Computer Science, Laureate of the 25th contest of amateur pianists in Paris (2014, 3rd prize and special press prize), Claviarium contest (Moscow, 2011, 2nd prize) will perform at the 'Professors’ Wednesdays' Concert.

From October 28^th to November 16^th, 2014, Nikita Alexandrov, 2^nd-year student of Applied Mathematics and Information Science, participated in a research workshop on combinatorial geometry supervised by Igor Pak, professor at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Mathematics Department. Nikita spoke on ‘Borsuk‘s Hypothesis and Related Tasks’.

From November 9^th to 15^th 2014, Prof. José Valente de Oliveira, a renowned international expert from the University of Algarve, Portugal, delivered a course of lectures on ‘Modern Methods of Data Analysis’ for master’s students of the HSE Faculty of Computer Science School of Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence.

On October 27^th, 2014, Facebook developers spoke at the Higher School of Economics about data storage on this particular social network. Their lecture was the first in a series of events to be held in the new IT Lecture Centre at the Faculty of Computer Science.