Shanghai students win world programming title

Black Issues in Higher Education, May 5, 2005 by Ronald Roach

SHANGHAI, CHINA

Last month, students from Jiao Tong University, the Shanghai-based school hosting the International Collegiate Programming Contest, took top honors in the annual competition organized annually by the Association for Computing Machinery. The Jiao Tong team was the only finals competitor to correctly solve eight of the 10 problems in this year's contest. Moscow State University, St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics and the University of Waterloo placed second, third and fourth, respectively, and all won gold medals.

This year's "battle of the brains," held in Shanghai and sponsored by IBM, challenged students to tackle a semester's worth of computer programming under a grueling five-hour deadline, in a battle of logic, strategy and mental endurance. Regional champions included the University of Waterloo, Canada; Moscow State University, Russia; University of Cape Town, South Africa; Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; and the University of New South Wales, Australia. There were no American students or schools in the top 12 awards. For more information visit: .