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Polish computing science students 2nd in ICPC World Final
Radio Polonia ^ | 13.04.2006

Posted on 04/13/2006 3:07:09 PM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: computers; poland; programming; russia; student
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1 posted on 04/13/2006 3:07:12 PM PDT by lizol
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To: RusIvan
This year’s edition has been won by representatives of the University of Saratov, Russia.

Congrats!
2 posted on 04/13/2006 3:08:23 PM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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To: lizol

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


3 posted on 04/13/2006 3:09:08 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'll have the roast duck, with the mango salsa..)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Have you?

Try Brzeczyszczykiewicz.


4 posted on 04/13/2006 3:10:46 PM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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To: lizol

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


5 posted on 04/13/2006 3:12:17 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'll have the roast duck, with the mango salsa..)
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To: lizol

"sience" ?


6 posted on 04/13/2006 3:13:12 PM PDT by Tracy V. (Hell is the impossibility of reason)
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To: lizol
Congratulations, for you and your country.......
7 posted on 04/13/2006 3:13:33 PM PDT by marmar (Pray for our Warriors...they are the greatest there are............)
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To: Tracy V.
Apparently, they didn't do well in the spelling contest.
8 posted on 04/13/2006 3:14:46 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: bill1952
Lol. Well, at first I thought it was some type of occult, perhaps a seance via computers.
9 posted on 04/13/2006 3:21:52 PM PDT by Tracy V. (Hell is the impossibility of reason)
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To: lizol

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


10 posted on 04/13/2006 3:47:48 PM PDT by 2Hot4You (Don't Be The Bunny)
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To: lizol
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.
11 posted on 04/13/2006 3:52:38 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: 2Hot4You
Actually many, many more, and the Russians achieved really excellent results.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614265/posts
12 posted on 04/13/2006 3:52:47 PM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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To: lizol
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.

13 posted on 04/13/2006 4:03:25 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: 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.


14 posted on 04/13/2006 4:05:07 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Revolting cat!

Thanks.


15 posted on 04/13/2006 4:21:57 PM PDT by opinionator
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To: lizol
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.


16 posted on 04/13/2006 4:42:40 PM PDT by Bobalu (This is not the tag line you are looking for.....move along (waves hand))
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To: 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


17 posted on 04/13/2006 4:51:05 PM PDT by Bobalu (This is not the tag line you are looking for.....move along (waves hand))
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To: Bobalu

Thanks for the link.


18 posted on 04/13/2006 6:44:30 PM PDT by perfect stranger (I need new glasses.)
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To: lizol

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


19 posted on 04/13/2006 8:51:41 PM PDT by vertolet
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To: lizol

Will Poland be another country to outsource programmers like India?


20 posted on 04/13/2006 8:54:13 PM PDT by Wiz
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