Monday, April 23, 2012

International Collegiate Programming Contest

The 2012 Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest is just about to take place (May 14-18 in Warsaw, Poland). Here are last year's top 10 winners:

1  Zhejiang University (China)
2  University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (USA)
3  Tsinghua University (China)
4  St. Petersburg State University (Russia)
5  Nizhny Novgorod State University (Russia)
6  Saratov State University (Russia)
7  Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany)
8  Donetsk National University (Ukraine)
9  Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland)
10 Moscow State University (Russia)

Only one American university in the top 10, and only 2 in the top 25! If that doesn't scare the hell out of us in the USA, we just don't understand what is happening........