Many Americans are unaware of the young minds around the globe who are competing and will complete with American graduates. As Americans and as educators 0 globalization and technology expertise can not be taken lightly!
1 Zhejiang University
2 University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
3 Tsinghua University
4 St. Petersburg State University
5 Nizhny Novgorod State University
6 Saratov State University
7 Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
8 Donetsk National University
9 Jagiellonian University in Krakow
10 Moscow State University
11 Ural State University
12 University of Waterloo
13 Carnegie Mellon University
13 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
13 Lviv National University
13 Nanyang Technological University
13 National Taiwan University
13 Peking University
13 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
13 Sharif University of Technology
13 St. Petersburg State University of IT, Mechanics and Optics
13 Taurida V.I. Vernadsky National University
13 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
13 Universidad de Buenos Aires – FCEN
13 University of Warsaw
13 Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University
27 Belarusian State University
27 Fudan University
27 Harbin Institute of Technology
27 Kazakh-British Technical University
27 Kyoto University
27 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
27 Novosibirsk State University
27 Perm State University
27 South Ural State University
27 Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University
27 Tianjin University
27 Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
27 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
27 University of Helsinki
27 University of Tokyo
42 Beijing Jiaotong University
42 East China Normal University
42 Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi
42 International Institute of Information Technology – Hyderabad
42 Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology
42 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
42 Princeton University
42 Seoul National University
42 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich – VIS
42 Universidad Nacional de Córdoba – FaMAF
42 Universidade Federal do Paraná
42 Universidade de São Paulo – Escola Politécnica
42 Universidade de São Paulo – Instituto de Matemática e Estatística
42 University of Alberta
42 University of Stellenbosch
42 University of Wroclaw
42 Wuhan University
From 2,070 universities in 88 countries, the top one hundred and three teams of students competed for bragging rights and prizes at The 35th Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals sponsored by IBM on May 30, 2011, in Orlando Florida, USA, and hosted by IBM.
The contest pits teams of three university students against eight or more complex, real-world problems, with a grueling five-hour deadline. Huddled around a single computer, competitors race against the clock in a battle of logic, strategy and mental endurance.
Teammates collaborate to rank the difficulty of the problems, deduce the requirements, design test beds, and build software systems that solve the problems under the intense scrutiny of expert judges. For a well-versed computer science student, some of the problems require precision only. Others require a knowledge and understanding of advanced algorithms. Still others are simply too hard to solve – except, of course, for the world’s brightest problem-solvers.
Judging is relentlessly strict. The students are given a problem statement – not a requirements document. They are given an example of test data, but they do not have access to the judges’ test data and acceptance criteria. Each incorrect solution submitted is assessed a time penalty. The team that solves the most problems in the fewest attempts in the least cumulative time is declared the winner.
To learn more about the ICPC, please visit http://acmicpc.org or http://icpc.baylor.edu/ . Visit the ICPC podcast series at http://battleofthebrains.podbean.com for insights from past contestants and current IBM executives.
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