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Opportunities: New Language Technology Courses Open to Outside Participants

Language technologies have been around for a long time, but have gone through a revolution in recent years. Photo: The Royal broadcast, Christmas 1934, courtesy of Wikipedia

Language technologies have been around for a long time, but have gone through a revolution in recent years. Photo: The Royal broadcast, Christmas 1934, courtesy of Wikipedia

Skoltech is proud to announce a unique opportunity for students with a background in Information Technology to join a newly developed graduate level 8-week Language Technologies courses offered, alongside with Skoltech students.

The courses on offer (see below) are available this upcoming Term 3 of the spring semester.

Please note that course participation will be offered free of charge and participants will be selected on a competitive basis and that language of instruction will be English only.

INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES

Term 3 Spring semester 2015

Study period: February 2, 2015 – March 27, 2015

Where: Skolkovo Innovation Center, Hypercube

Contact and info: Yana Kraskovskaya

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Tel. +7 (495) 280 14 81 ext.34-04

 

Course Description

The course will give students a practical sense of current capabilities of Language Technologies, their underlying principles and business applications. It will cover 6 major components of Language Technologies: Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Machine Translation, Speech Recognition, Text and Speech Generation, and Communication with Devices. Each area will be covered with an overview lecture, practical exercises and a discussion of trends and applications.  Last 2 weeks will be dedicated to short projects by groups of students. Utilization of the state-of-the-art Open Source and commercial tools will be emphasized.

 

Intended Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

 

  • Articulate the key principles and methods underlying Language Technologies
  • Assess applicability of Language Technologies for solving business problems
  • Select appropriate tools
  • Build simple applications

 

Course instructors: Anatole Gershman

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~anatoleg/

 

Hackathon: Girls vs. Boys

An engineering hackathon titled "Girls vs. Boys" will be held by Skoltech students on December 6, 2014

An engineering hackathon titled “Girls vs. Boys” will be held by Skoltech students on December 6, 2014

If you’re an engineering student (girl or boy) here is one event you do not want to miss:

Girls vs. Boys Hackathon.

The competition, scheduled for December 6, will focus on engineering (not coding) challenges. The tasks will test participants’ engineering creativity and problem solving skills within a limited time frame.

And here is the twist, devised by the organizers, who are all Skoltech students:  teams made of three female participants will face off teams consisting of three male contestants. Hence, girls vs. boys.

Current and prospective students are welcome to join the hackfest. Organizers will be happy to help assemble teams for those who have none. Deadline for registration is November 10. For more info and registration:

http://bit.ly/1x4v8Rc
http://bit.ly/1pmqfRf

And may the best persons win.

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advances scientific knowledge, and fosters new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

A Startup is Born – In 24 Hours

The LikeIT! application logo

The LikeIT! application logo

Andrii Omelianovych and his Skoltech classmate Muhammad Saad had a choice between spending their last 24 hours of summer vacation on the beach – or on the couch. Then the graduate students opted for not-so-obvious solution: they created a new mobile application. Called “LikeIt!“, this app aims to revolutionize the shopping experience by making it more social than ever before. We caught up with the 25-year-old masters student and entrepreneur for a short chat about bridging the gap between tech dreams and reality.

LikeIt! is a mobile chat application which helps shoppers with shared interests to exchange on-the-spot, genuine impressions and information about products and services. Users scan barcodes, hashtags or QR codes on packages, write comments, opinions or even warnings. The next potential customer can tap into this pool of authentic knowledge – or add to it.  The demo version brings to mind a hybrid between WhatsApp and Foursquare. The road ahead is long and complex, and the team members are well aware of the problems that plague many young companies. And still, they are undeterred.

“It occurred to us that when people consider buying a product in a shop they usually do not have access to immediate feedback and independent opinions about the services and goods that are around them,” says Omelianovych who founded the project with three fellow students willing to contribute their last 24 hours of summer break to pursue a startup dream. “We decided to connect potential customers to a pool of knowledge. That way they can make better choices. This can have immense value.”

Muhammad Saad, a second year IT master’s student at Skoltech, is one of the initial team who dreamed up and executed the plan to create Likeit! Originally from Pakistan, Saad decided the young, Moscow based tech university is a good bet. “I felt that Skoltech’s focus on developing a collaborative and innovative environment was right for me. Here we get a chance to take a huge variety of courses, from Machine Learning to Venture Financing. When Andrii approached me with the idea for this app, I didn’t hesitate for long”, says the bleary-eyed student after toiling overnight on finalizing the app’s web version.

“What I like about students here is that they don’t immediately run to register their startups and start employing people, but concentrate on their product first”, says Ilia Dubinsky, the director of Skoltech’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI), which supports student’s startup projects, “projects with such a mature approach have a better chance to succeed”.

It is not the first time that MS student Omelianovych forayed into fields that could be considered far from energy technology, which he studies. He has been one of the founders of another social app, called “imeetu” which aimed to match meeting place with users’ location and personal preferences. In his role with the LikeIt! team focuses on product development and promotion.

Did you really create the whole thing in one last day of summer?

“Almost”, he smiles, “Skoltech has developed an interesting and unique culture of solving complex problems in intensive and relatively short sessions. This is in line with student culture here. Everybody is able and creative. We just need a little push.

“Since joining Skoltech I have always wanted to do a project that would push me towards cooperation with students from various disciplines. Because the university focuses on crosscutting and interdisciplinary impactful research so it jets made sense to me.”

Sounds great. But easier said than done?

“We are hoping to get some traction, test the application and then launch an official version which would include expended functionalities and gather some real customers’ data. We are aiming for product specific information which we could offer to big companies to improve their products and better serve their customers.”

 

LikeIt! founders team. From right to left Andrii Omelyaonvyich (MSc student in Energy at Skoltech), Muhammad Saad (Information Technology MS student at Skoltech), Ruslan Stetsenko and Zakhar Fadeev

LikeIt! founders team. From right to left Andrii Omelyaonvyich (MSc student in Energy at Skoltech), Muhammad Saad (Information Technology MS student at Skoltech), Ruslan Stetsenko and Zakhar Fadeev

 

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

Surfing USA. Russia, too

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘surf’? Monster waves off the coast of Hawaii? The Beach Boys and that bushy bushy blonde hair do? Or these weird neon shorts your aunt just loves to wear to family reunions? For most people, surfing would not usually be associated with a group of Russian and American students strategizing together. Then again, SURF stands for the Stanford US-Russia Forum, a bi-annual conference where young, bright minds discuss policy and economy. Four Skoltech students ventured forthto Silicon Valley (Googleplex included) last month, presented their startups and tech projects, and took a million selfies. Then they returned to Moscow. Here are their stories – and photos.

Anna Dubovik is a student with Skoltech’s IT track and the entrepreneur behind “SKILL-TREE “, which she presented to the Stanford faculty and students. Her aim is to create a web service for future professionals. It uses young professionals’ social network profiles to determine their set of skills and provide informed advice on their career’s future course. Skill tree’s ultimate goal is to scale the service and help professionals worldwide realize what’s missing from their careers.

Anna Dubovik (left) visitng Google

Googled: Anna Dubovik (left) bonding with American students in front of the Googlplex

Another young entrepreneur who presented a career decision making tool is Tatiana Smirnova. She studies Bio Medicine – not IT – which goes to show the interdisciplinary nature our MSc tracks. She told her audience in Palo Alto about brainselecta.com, a web service which focuses on removing some of the ambivalence from the process of soul searching and job hunting.

“People were very open and asked lots of great questions”, says Tatiana.  “Ambivalence is an ever growing issue in society and that is true for both young Russians and Americans.  With our service, a person chooses topics of interest and then listens to multiple audio tracks. We simulate a busy street scene where you need to employ selective attention. The interesting part is what people pay attention to. Based on this, the system creates a recommendation. It’s an intuitive approach based on cognitive science. But we also developed mathematical algorithms for criteria analysis and evaluation.”

Sergei Kasatkin studies IT. His project aims to detect children at risk of drowning – and save them. He told his audience in Silicon Valley statistics show that two out of ten people who die from drowning every day are children (14 or younger).

Sergei Kasatkin (right): inspired at Stanford

Sergei Kasatkin (right): inspired at Stanford

Sergei’s project is based on a smart bracelet containing a gyroscope and a sensor, worn by a baby or toddler while taking a bath. An alarm goes off if a child’s heart beat and position in the water indicate that something is wrong – and the baby might be drowning. The prototype’s estimated cost is $60 US. “In return I provide a tech solution that could take parents’ anxiety away,” he tells us. Sounds like a smart business plan: ask any American or Russian and they would probably say that this is a fair price for saving a child’s life (Martian moms and dads are likely to agree.)

Alexander Vidiborskiy is a Master’s student of Energy. “At the beginning of SURF, I was a little confused. How can I present complicated experimental physics to people interested in politics? But adapting a presentation for a new audience turned out to be an extremely useful experience.”

His project envisions the creation of highly-tunable active filters for satellites and large observatories. These filters could make life easier –and quieter – for communications and astronomy professionals because they allow higher noise tolerance. “I was surprised that Stanford students deal with the same research questions we explore at Skoltech. We had lots to talk about in terms of RU-US collaboration.”

 

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Anna Dubovik (left) and Sergei Kasatkin at SURF (Stanford US Russia Forum)

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The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

 

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