ACM Collegiate Programming Contest Wrap-Up

A slightly belated congratulations to the winning teams at the 31st ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, held a couple of weeks ago in Tokyo, Japan. The competition pitted 88 teams against each other in the final round. Earlier rounds of the competition featured more than 6,000 teams representing 1,765 universities from 82 countries.

The winners were from the Warsaw University (Poland), Tsinghua University (China), St. Petersburg University of IT, Mechanics and Optics (Russia), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.), and Novosibirsk State University (Russia).

The team from Warsaw University included Filip Wolski, Marcin Pilipczuk, and Marek Cygan, and was coached by Jan Madey. The MIT team, consisting of Brian Jacokes, Hubert Hwang, and Eric Price, placed fourth among the 88 teams from all over the world that qualified for the ACM-ICPC world finals, which are sponsored by IBM.

ACM President Stuart Feldman pointed to the superior problem-solving abilities demonstrated throughout the competition from teams across the globe. "The competition at the ACM ICPC World Finals is incredible. The contestants must attack a wide variety of problems, and the top 15 teams are all performing at a level that exceeds what it took to win the contest only 10 years ago," he said.

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