Russian students won the World Programming Championship for the third time in a row

Three students of St. Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg State University) became the winners of the 38th Student Championship of the World Computing Association programming (Association for Compution Machine Collegiate Programming Contest, ACM-Eicpc), global global The sponsor of which is the IBM Corporation. The final of the ACM-ICPC was held in Yekaterinburg.

The competition for programmers with headquarters at the University of Baylor, also known as the Battle of the Brains, united 122 student teams that were in just 5 hours to cope with several difficult tasks from real life, reports CNews .

The team of St. Petersburg State University consisting of Yegor Suvorov, Dmitry Egorov and Pavel Kunyavsky solved 7 tasks in 5 hours. The programming champions received the Award "The World's Smartest Trophy), as well as the offers of internships or work in IBM and other IT companies, the competition organizers said.

The second place was taken by the team of Moscow State University (Moscow State University), the third - Beijing University.

List of winners of the ACM ICPC 2014 championship:

St. Petersburg State University (Gold Medal, World Champion);

Moscow State University, (Gold Medal, 2nd place);

University of Beijing, (gold medal, 3rd place);

National University of Taiwan, (gold medal, 4th place);

Warsaw University, (silver medal, 5th place);

Shanghai Transport University, (silver medal, 6th place);

Tokyo University, (silver medal, 7th place);

Zagreb University, (Silver Medal, 8th place);

St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO), (bronze medal, 9th place);

National Research University "Higher School of Economics", (bronze medal, 10th place);

Qinhua University, (bronze medal, 11th place);

University named after Komensky, (bronze medal, 12th place).

For the first time in the United States, the ACM-ICPC final took place in 1999 in the Netherlands, and then in different years the championship was accepted by universities in Canada, China, Japan, the Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden and Russia. In the struggle for the right to be called the intellectual capital of 2014, Yekaterinburg won. More than 30 thousand participants out of 2.3 thousand universities of 91 countries competed in qualifying tournaments for the opportunity to come to the final in Russia. Note that students from St. Petersburg also became champions in 2013 and 2012.

In 2015, the championship final will be held in Marrakesh (Morocco).