Next month, young programmers from more than a dozen countries will converge to Moscow for a coding bootcamp. They will get intensive training to prepare them to take part in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), one of the world’s most prestigious tech competitions. The bootcamp is organized by Moscow Workshops ICPC, an educational startup …
Russian programmers excel not only in “hacking” US elections. They also top international competitions, as exemplified by the results of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) over the past years. While winning this contest is the dream of all IT students the world, Russians did it this year for the eighth time – ahead of teams …
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A team from Moscow State University has won the 42nd International Collegiate Programming Contest of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM ICPC) last week, defeating 140 international teams from 51 countries in the finals held on April 19 in Beijing, China. This is the first victory for the university and the eighth triumph for the …
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A team from St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) has come out on top of the 41st International Collegiate Programming Contest of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM ICPC), beating 133 of their peers in the finals held in Rapid City, USA on May 24, 2017. ITMO has won …
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Which colleges have the best coders in the world? This simple question is not addressed by academic rankings. The “Top Computer Science Programs ranking of U.S. News & World Report, for example, takes into account such criteria as number of research papers produced, global research reputation, and number of conferences — but practical coding skills are not even …
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A team from Russia’s St. Petersburg State University (SPbU) has come out on top of the 40th International Collegiate Programming Contest of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM ICPC), beating 128 of their peers in the finals held at Prince of Songkla University in Thailand. Coming ahead of teams from Harvard and the MIT, Russian students Stanislav Ershov, Igor Pyshkin and …
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A Russian team has come out on top in the final of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest for the 6th time in the past 10 years. St Petersburg State University’s (SPBSU) team won the title after successfully solving 7 out of 10 problems in five hours. This was the university’s first ever triumph in …
About 300 tech-savvy students from 71 countries gathered in St. Petersburg on July 10 and July 11 to contend for global recognition and a total of $1 million in prize money, Microsoft reported. These student finalists pitched innovative projects to a high-profile jury in three main categories. In the Games category, Austria’s Zeppelin Studio came …
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Russia will form a new military branch responsible for cybersecurity by the end of 2013, news agency RIA Novosti reported last week, citing an unnamed source in the Ministry of Defense. Among the main tasks of the cyber troops will be data monitoring and processing, as well as dealing with cyber threats. The first steps …
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The St. Petersburg National Research University of IT, Mechanics, and Optics team won the International Collegiate Programming Contest of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM ICPC) for the seventh time. The ACM ICPC finals, which were organized in Saint Petersburg last week, attracted 120 teams from 36 countries. The winning team of three students, who …
Petr Mitrichev, a Russian programmer with a clutch of major global IT competition wins already under his belt, came out on top earlier this week at Facebook’s 3rd annual Hacker Cup international programming contest, notching his second personal Cup win and making the competition’s first prize Russian-only for a third year running. Mitrichev, a 28 …
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Russian students won five medals in a total of twelve competitions at the Association of Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) held from May 27 -31 in Orlando, Florida this year. The student team from St. Petersburg State University, in particular, won the 4th place gold medal at the IBM-sponsored championship.
