NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Four Chinese teams and five Russian teams dominated the top ten rankings of the 2010 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC, http://cm.baylor.edu/welcome.icpc ) . Shanghai Jiaotong University took first place followed by Moscow State University. Third place went to National Taiwan University, and Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University finished fourth. The only non-Chinese or non-Russian team in the top ten was the University of Warsaw in eighth place.
This international competition, now in its 34th year, has been run by ACM (http://www.acm.org/), a society of more than 96,000 computing educators, researchers, professionals, and students worldwide, since the mid-1970s as the premiere programming competition. Financial and systems support for the competition is provided by IBM. The contest took place in Harbin, China with 103 teams competing in the final round. Earlier rounds of the competition included 22,000 contestants representing 1,931 universities from 82 countries. The top four teams won Gold medals as well as employment or internship offers from IBM. Full results are available at http://cm.baylor.edu/ICPCWiki/Wiki.jsp;jsessionid=DDAD0FF7938BF90C73C0D917AF29F681?page=Results%20%20World%20%20Finals%20%202010 .
ACM President Professor Dame Wendy Hall cited the global nature of the ICPC event as an outstanding example of ACM's recent initiatives to extend its high-quality technical activities, conferences, and services for the computing profession, and to recognize computing achievement in international arenas. "This competition helps to illuminate the role of computing in driving innovation in a global environment, and to recognize achievements in these regions," she said. "By strengthening ACM's ties in multiple regions throughout the world and raising awareness of its many benefits and resources with the public and in-country decision-makers, we can play an active role in the critical technical, educational, and social issues that surround the computing community. "
As part of its initiative to focus on international
activities, ACM introduced the ACM Europe Council
(http://europe.acm.org Dame Wendy also pointed to the importance of computer
science education in the competitive global economy. She
noted ACM's efforts to help high school students, teachers,
and parents better understand the kinds of careers enabled
by studying computer science. For example, ACM launched
Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek,
http://www.csedweek.org/ ) with its partners in December
2009, to raise awareness of the transformative role of
computing and the need to bolster computer science at all
educational levels. The website created for this effort
serves as the interactive and central resource hub for
CSEdWeek, engaging supporters to prepare students with the
knowledge and skills they need for the 21st century.
ABOUT ACM: ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery
(http://www.acm.org/), is the world's largest educational
and scientific computing society, uniting computing
educators, researchers, professionals, and students to
inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's
challenges. ACM strengthens the computing profession's
collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the
highest standards, and recognition of technical
excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its
members by providing opportunities for life-long learning,
career development, and professional networking.
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