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2007 ACM Contest Winners Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the they-are-the-winner dept.

prostoalex writes "2007 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is over with Warsaw University (Poland) winning it this year and solving all of the problems. The runner-up, Tsinghua University (China), finished with 7 problems solved, while St. Petersburg University of IT, Mechanics and Optics (Russia) and MIT (USA) are tied up for the third place with 6 problems solved. There were 6000 teams initially in the running, and in the final round of the competition only 88 remained."

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  1. Re:What will happen in twenty years when they deve by Rakishi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You miss the point, it's akin to you coming in second in a go-cart race that you spent all your time working on while the third place guy also got first in a nascar race (ie: the go-cart race was for fun).

    It's an utterly artificial and in real life worthless measure, essentially its the Chinese not MIT that is wasting time on worthless "luxuries" (ie: the ability to say "we got second").

    If all you can do is some narrow work based on months of repetitive learning then prepare to be unemployed when you hit 40. If you learn to be adaptable and multidisciplinary then it doesn't matter if your field goes down the craper as you can just change to another one (and likely already have your feet in 5 different ones).