Polish computing science students 2nd in ICPC World Final

Radio Polonia ^ | 13.04.2006

[lizol]

Polish computing sience students 2nd in ICPC World Final

13.04.2006

A team of students from the Jagiellonian University has come second at the 30th annual World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery - International Collegiate Programming Contest held in San Antonio, Texas. The ICPC is one of the world's most prestigious university competitions in computing sciences and engineering.

More than 5600 teams representing 1733 universities from 84 countries participated in regional contests held last fall. The top 83 teams qualified for the 2006 ACM-ICPC World Finals. This year’s edition has been won by representatives of the University of Saratov, Russia.

The teams have been challenged to solve ten highly complex, real-world programming problems under a five-hour deadline.

[lizol]

This year’s edition has been won by representatives of the University of Saratov, Russia.

Congrats!

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I guess they figured out how to properly pronounce czyszewsky...

[lizol]

Have you?

Try Brzeczyszczykiewicz.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

yea...it's "HEY YOU"...:-)

[Tracy V.]

"sience" ?

[marmar]

Congratulations, for you and your country.......

[bill1952]

Apparently, they didn't do well in the spelling contest.

[Tracy V.]

Lol. Well, at first I thought it was some type of occult, perhaps a seance via computers.

[2Hot4You]

Of course, there was only one team competing...

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

This does not surprise me.
I have traveled in a lot of Eastern Europe Countries, both during the USSR and after it broke up.
Many of the children do 4 to 6 hours of study every day after school and more during the weekend.
They do not sit in front of a TV or play video games very much.

[lizol]

Actually many, many more, and the Russians achieved really excellent results.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614265/posts

[Revolting cat!]

Czech/Slovak   English German Polish
c              ts      tz,    z c
è              ch      tsch   cz
ï              d       d      dŸ, dzi
ò              n       n      ñ, ni
ø [Czech only] r       r      rz
š              sh      sch    sz
ť              t       t      ci
ž              zh      sch    ż

More here.

[Revolting cat!]

It seems that all the alphabet characters unique to those languages got re-interpreted when posted, when they looked fine in preview. Oh well, see the original doc.

[opinionator]

Thanks.

[Bobalu]

No surprise here.. In WW2 it was a group of Polish mathematicians that reverse engeneered the Enigma cipher machine from nothing more than descriptions and sample messages.

[Bobalu]

If anyone is interested a good telling of the Polish/Enigma work is here http://www.armyradio.com/publish/Articles/The_Enigma_Code_Breach/The_Enigma_Code_Breach.htm

[perfect stranger]

Thanks for the link.

[vertolet]

The ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest Web Site: http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/finals/default.htm

[Wiz]

Will Poland be another country to outsource programmers like India?