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29th ACM Intl. Programming Contest Results

Posted by Zonk on from the -talent-recognized dept.

mathinator writes "The 29th ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, hosted by China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, are now over and the results are in. Congratulations to the top 4 teams who will be walking away with gold medals. They are Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Moscow State University, St. Petersburg Institute of Optics and Mechanics, and Canada's University of Waterloo (coming in at 1, 2, 3, 4 respectively. The top 4 get gold medals). Regional champions are: University of Waterloo, Canada (North America); Moscow State University, Russia (Europe); University of Cape Town, South Africa, (Africa and the Middle East); Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil (Latin America); Shanghai Jiaotong University, China (Asia); and University of New South Wales, Australia (South Pacific)."

6 of 436 comments (clear)

  1. Outsourcing starves local talent ? by BrittanyGites · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm suprised at the performance of India, Western Europe and America.

    Maybe the high costs of writing software in the U.S. and Europe has kept the Indian outsourced programmers so busy they did not have time to compete.

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    Ian
    1. Re:Outsourcing starves local talent ? by Ulrich+Hobelmann · · Score: 0, Troll

      No, lack of talent causes outsourcing.

      Europe and the USA did abysmal, and honestly I didn't expect anything different.

  2. Hah, please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    Let's see, a communist country hosts it and wins it, gives a bunch of medals to more communists, then a few Islamic fascist third world countries, and puts some of the best schools in the world (IIT included, not being US-centric here) in the "honorable mention" category.

    You need to familiarize yourself with Occam's Razor and apply it appropriately.

  3. Tech Support by timtwobuck · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well we all know that if it was a Tech Support related question India would be prevailed...

  4. Re:Not so sad? by bhiggins80 · · Score: 0, Troll

    What you meant to say is "Waterloo is THE post-secondary institution for bored, lonely virgins".

  5. Re:Some religions are hostile to technology. by Baldrson · · Score: 0, Troll
    You mean their position of being hostile to technology while at the same time developing nuclear programs (plants/bombs, who knows)?

    Yeah and Iraq had weapons of mass destruction ready to be deployed against the US within weeks of the US's invasion of Iraq and the US provides so much support to Israel due to Israeli nukes being deployed in all major US cities except New York, LA, Miami and maybe Chicago.

    Know any other "antisemitic canards"?

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    Seastead this.