St. Petersburg State University Takes the Gold at ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
WARSAW, Poland, May 17, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Three students from St. Petersburg State University of Information Technology, Mechanics & Optics have been named World Champions of the 2012 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Sponsored by IBM (NYSE: IBM), the competition, affectionately known as the Battle of the Brains, challenged 112 university teams to solve some of the most challenging computer programming problems they've ever faced in a strict five hour deadline.
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This year's top twelve teams that received medals are:
St. Petersburg State University of IT, Mechanics & Optics (GOLD, WORLD CHAMPION)
University of Warsaw (GOLD, 2nd Place)
Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology (GOLD, 3rd Place)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (GOLD, 4th Place)
Belarusian State University (SILVER, 5th Place)
Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University (SILVER, 6th Place)
Harvard University (SILVER, 7th Place)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (SILVER, 8th Place)
University of Waterloo (BRONZE, 9th Place)
Moscow State University (BRONZE, 10th Place)
University of Tokyo (BRONZE, 11th Place)
Belarus State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (BRONZE, 12th Place)
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/17/4497025/students-from-st-petersburg-state.html