We, Homo sapiens, make hundreds of decisions a day without thinking. Here you, for example, can choose from many options the one that you will not regret later? Our companion, Inna, Suhoniak, head of the Department of computer science faculty of information and communication technologies GGTU, guru make the best decisions. And in the literal sense, because he is a candidate of technical Sciences in the specialty of “System analysis and theory of optimal solutions”. From it we learned not only about the best solutions, but also about what makes people forget their own age, about cool universities and much more
“What is my greatest achievement? I woke up. (Laughs) I think starting every day is an achievement. And start it with plans, with hopes. This is awareness. The whole process of development is an achievement. When you do not stop at what you have already achieved, and go on. That’s when, I think, there is a development. Although there are always doubts: why do you go, why do you need to go? Could it be time to sit down? Though it seems to me that such questions are handed over to all who goes, who tries to develop. Who does not, he is not mistaken”
“Students are always evolving. They do not have the frustration and hopelessness that are inherent in the older generation. Sometimes students don’t go where we want them to go, but it’s their own way. There is no concept of “good” or “bad” student. There are simply those who go the other way. That’s all”
“Once, since my childhood, everything was going well with mathematics. And there were no questions on the choice of profession: I understood that it would be connected with mathematics. We came to Zhytomyr-it was my father’s last place of service, and I knew that there would be a physical and mathematical Lyceum and my life would be connected with computers. My parents are young, they are fully adapted to the technology, so they perceived everything normally-there were no questions. They saw that the child likes mathematics and does not like music, so do not limit: “Like? Please!”
“I’m a happy person. Not to jinx it. (Laughs) to Say that there was something that got out of the way – no, there was no such thing. What is happiness? Everyone defines for himself. As such, there is no secret to happiness. Happiness is when you are where you want to be; when there are those around you whom you want to see; everything happens as you want. Or maybe not the way you want, but at least you’re interested. The main thing-the absence of what upsets you, and the opportunity to do something new”
“All bad things just need to survive. When you worry, you have a chance to change. You don’t have to wait it out, you just get over it. There is such expression: “If life threw a lemon, we make lemonade”. If something irreparable has not happened, then nothing should be unsettling, frustrating. Of course, there can be oppression, doubts, panic, especially when you start some new business. Now we are opening a new specialty. It is very interesting, but there is a panic: what will happen? And still you understand that you have to go and develop. You look at the students and realize that they are striving for new things, which means that you have to go with them”
“We’ve got a great University, we’re good. But to compare with other universities in Zhytomyr-this is not quite true. It’s like comparing green to hot or yellow to wet. You can’t compare things that complement each other. We have common tasks; other tasks may be different, but we do the same thing: we increase the number of smart, thoughtful people. The main thing in education is a person who can create, think, but not to destroy”
“For what it is worth praising computer science, the it sphere is for the fact that people from this sphere develop always, all life. The fact that the main thing for me in my work, in my career-everything is given with the help of it-sphere, all the time we are developing, we have new aspirations”
“Now we are mastering cloud technologies, new gaming technologies are our new direction. This is the creation of software products for cloud service. There are new students specializing in these issues. That’s when you send a file by mail, and it’s too big, it sends a cloud service. And that’s all thanks to the software that needs to be built. Not gods create “clouds” (Laughs) not gods created google-documents. All created people. Sometimes unknown, and sometimes they walk on neighboring streets. In Zhytomyr, a lot of companies are engaged in development for leading companies. Therefore, it is not a fact that some of your favorite application is not created by Zhytomyr developer”
“We produce “raw material”, “semi-finished product”. Through three-five years you look-these talented people became really experts”
“It is difficult to single out someone in our profession and not to offend another iconic figure. There are classics like Robert Noyce, who invented Intel microprocessors, or mathematician John Von Neumann, who invented the computer. That is, these are people who are not known to you as individuals, but you know that they have done something that allows you to develop and work today. There are people in the sphere whose stories are known, interesting and informative today. Even the Directors of our companies are very outstanding. But say, that there is ideals, on which you than something look like,-there is no. There are achievements that you are interested in, there are people who would like to learn”
“There are many women in the history of computer science. Actually, it is difficult to distinguish the “non-women” sphere, if you separate what is associated with the home and everyday life. We call “women’s” areas that are related to family or care: raising children, cooking. This is why stereotypes develop. So may girls on bookkeeping specialty more than technical. But personally, I have not encountered situations when a man says: “You’re not fit because you’re a woman.” I heard jokes, I know what they say about this, but personally I did not have to deal with such situations. Once upon a time I our teacher Nadiia Petrivna Kargapolova taught: “a woman, who enters the “male” sphere, needs to be a step ahead. Otherwise she won’t be a Pro.” Today I don’t thinks a woman should be better than a man to get a position or a job, but it was her thought that made me learn and develop. I just wanted to be better. At some point, the question comes: “who is better?” And you understand that you should not compare yourself with the environment, you need to achieve successes that are important for you-scientific work, thesis, article, research, project implementation”
“I really like one of the latest projects. It’s a shame that only a test sample was made. The development objective is to control the state of the school with the help of fitness bands. There is a heart rate, there is a schedule of lessons. And you can examine the state of the child at a certain point. We consulted with experts who told us that the exact emotional state of the pulse cannot be investigated, but to notice certain changes-so”
“When the development gets the final look, you see the result, you feel if not happy, then at least happy. You’ve achieved something!”
“Very often my day begins at four or five o’clock in the morning. That’s not scary at all! You just have to go to bed early. (Laughs) Why so early? Better to think. On the evening thought already heavy, bad, tired. From the evening a person torments himself, ponders what happened. Ideas aimed at the development of fresh, new thoughts – the thoughts of dawn. And it is not a miracle, it is a certain regime. I don’t always get up at five in the morning, but I can’t get up after six” (Laughs)
“Not all household chores I do myself. But how? All she can do only a person who is always at home. Work takes a lot of time. Now, it seems to me, there are much fewer families where such a classical distribution of responsibilities”
“My specialty is called ‘decision theory’. Sometimes it’s a curse! When you want to achieve something, you scroll through a million scenarios in your head: “what will happen if I get it?” Then another million:” And what will be in the process of obtaining?” And then about some terrible consequences… and you feel like a hero of a famous fairy tale. Therefore, when I go to some goal, I first think about how to get what is necessary, and then I plan an easy way, which then turns out to be very not easy. (Laughs) And then you go through all the stages”
“I don’t make plans for the day. I tried, but then I don’t read them. When you do project work, you’re still tied to appointments, schedules, or deadlines. In any case, there is a calendar where all this is written, usually on the phone. Sometimes we think that we carry a phone, but in fact it is much more – there is a whole Chapter. (Laughs) I use a Google calendar, and it didn’t work out with notebooks. There is an old joke that programmers and doctors are taught to write on separate registers. Sometimes I can’t read what I wrote myself”
“Programming and a woman, roadworks and female, structures and woman – what’s so surprising? There are certain physiological limitations, such as weight, which you can not lift, because you do not have enough strength… All restrictions are very often in the minds of people than actually. Few women, unfortunately, are willing to give their all to work, taking away from some other area of their lives. Someone appreciates the time spent with children, and maybe just so historically. There can’t just be work in life. Sometimes we stop ourselves when we overdo it at work, and we realize that it’s time to stop. Although male colleagues do not have such a desire”
“I’m not a” truant full – time ” person-I prefer static rest or conscious movement. Ordinary walks should be with the interlocutor, that is, I will not walk myself. I’m more of a community or a targeted trek person. Rest for me is travelling, if walking with my family, some events, and performances. I love the theatre, more than the cinema. In the cinema always somehow have the thought “What am I doing here? Why should I at home on the couch does not sit still?”(Laughs) and in the theater live emotions, uncovered, there is no screen. After a computer monitor you want something more alive. I love sports, swimming, though never in my life did not play sports professionally. I’m generally unsportsmanlike ” man, but at some point you realize that the movement – it’s life”
“I like reading very much. And all in a row: from literature to adventure novels. I read books mainly on gadgets. Recently re-read the Note. When I read, still in school, and now reread and very wondered. I was surprised how much the re-read differs from what I remembered, how differently the relations between people are perceived and got me thinking. It’s scary because you realize how much I’ve changed”
“It specialists are eternal children. They play all the time, they make toys. We recently received a license and opened a new direction – we will develop toys with artificial intelligence, delve into the problems of computer graphics. Modern graphics gives simply tremendous opportunities for development. I feel like a child in a toy store, at such moments you do not feel your age. Age feel, when you ask about favorite pupils. (Laughs) Then you understand: “Vasia, Petia, Sergii, Lena, Tania, Katia… Oh God, how many of them are there, favorite students?” At this point, it becomes scary for age. And when you come to work, you bring a toy and you want to try, but just do not feel your age”
“In the modern world, work takes 60-80% of the time. When we are interested in work, we stay where it is. Any work should develop. You cannot work in one place for a long time, you cannot work only in one place, because you do not get professional development from that, you do not see how others do such work, how it can be done better and more interesting. Therefore, if you have the opportunity to expand their professional capabilities, do not give up”
“One of the latest developments of students is a toy called “Trolleybus”. Performer Vlad Vashchenko, head Szatkowski Vitaly. Garska – trend this year, though every year the students have something to show. The route management system for taxis, the unusual video surveillance system – every year there are interesting developments. This year there is the simulator trolley, which travels through the streets of Zhytomyr. This toy was written by a student as a simulator for training trolleybus drivers. There is a steering wheel, pedals, and you simulate the work of a trolleybus driver. People came in, you closed the door, went through the streets of the city, according to our routes. These functions can be turned off, and when children play, they can move off the road, drive on the lawns. For children it becomes a toy. Some developments of our students-just under the customer, some were introduced, and some were just like beautiful toys”
“Now they talk about the” cruel “game, but as a child we also played the game” robbers Cossacks”, imitated the game with a bow and arrows, we had guns. The only thing we didn’t have was visualization, which is given by modern it technologies. People cruel not toys make, and other people. Violent people are resentful people. And games on the contrary make you think that cruelty is wrong, bad, and painful. Games give you the opportunity to fully simulate the situation and see the bad consequences”
“Never” is a very scary word. It means a standstill. To tell you that, I will never do anything… If I had the opportunity to repeat something in life, mostly I would have done the same”
“I love Zhytomyr for its size. It is a city that does not suppress. There is no feeling that this is a small town, there is no feeling that you are not clear where you are. This Zhytomyr comfort coexists well with man. I love that. There is only a lack of grooming and gloss. I wish it looked like a Christmas card. It can be done, it can be a dream”
Translated by Aliona Matushevich
