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 28th to November 16th, 2014, Nikita Alexandrov, 2nd-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 9th to 15th 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 27th, 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.
On October 26th, 2014, a quarterfinal of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) 2014-2015 took place at the Moscow State University and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Two teams from the HSE Faculty of Computer Science took 7th and 11th places and passed through to the contest’s semifinal.
On the blog of European multinational software corporation SAP, Siraj Mayen, a student in HSE’s Faculty of Computer Science, discussed what it is like studying in Russia, as well as his research project in the field of e-health. Before moving to Russia, Siraj spent three years working as an IT specialist in Qatar. He was able to successfully apply his knowledge and experience to his work at the Higher School Economics and to his projects with SAP. Siraj is currently a second year master’s student in the System and Software Engineering programme, as well as a participant of the SAP University Alliance.
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.
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