Filip Wolski
Posted on 08/21/2006 2:53:46 PM PDT by lizol
Polish teenager world's best computer scientist
21.08.2006
Filip Wolski has won the gold medal at the World Computer Science Contest in Mexico.
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Filip Wolski came first amongst some fifty thousand young IT specialists from around the world. That’s how many entered the elimination round to the World Computer Science Contest. During the finals in Mexico, the Pole competed against several hundred students from eighty countries.
The competition lasted two days during which they were to solve and encode several mathematical problems prepared by the world’s top universities. Filip, 19, became the youngest person and the first Pole to win the contest. Filip is this year’s graduate of a high school in Gdynia on the Baltic coast.
Polish representatives had been very close to victory many times in previous years. It is only Filip who proved strong enough to come ahead of all the competitors. Those from Korea Japan and the United States were close behind. IT teacher Ryszard Szubartowski had worked with Filip preparing him for the competition.
It’s one of the most difficult contests in the world, but we really counted on Filip’s success. He had taken part in it 4 times before and last year was already very close to winning. So, it had to happen.
Back home, he’s Filip Wolski is expected to be given a hero’s welcome. He’s still in Mexico, enjoying a well-deserved holiday on the Mexican coast.
Filip Wolski
...already bought and paid for by Intel, I see.
ping
ML/NJ
How's that submarine screen door coming? Haven't heard anything on that for a while Mr. Smartypants.
God Bless the Poles.
Want to impress the world? Take out the Internet, take out hardened government systems, take out CapitalOne's, BofA's or Citibanks computer systems.
I bet he knows Reverse Polish Notation.
A microsecond is a time unit on a microwave. Duh. /acting stupid
I feel a deep kinship with the Polish people.
And a microwave is how one greets Algork.
I went to the kitchen and got a beer and returned to my keyboard in that time...but of course today is the end of the world so I had to hurry!
Bravo young man! Bravo!
Polish universities are among the top ten computer science schools with CalTech, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, etc.
Last years Top Coder was from Warsaw U.
No, that's tomorrow, the twenty-second, according to that Iranian dude that See-BS was sucking up to the other week.
Apparently, the dumb white guys from Poland aren't as dumb as the bigoted PC crowd have led us to believe. Ever notice how it is still ok with hollywood and the PCers to make fun of white guys and blondes. Bigotry tied up with a PC bow is socially acceptable to the sniveling liberal crowd. Sheesh!!
This kid must be a genius. Poland has become the computer programming training ground for the world. Read an article not long ago about international companies seeking Polish educated students out for top jobs in the field.
It turned August 22 in Iran around 4:30p EST today.
What! The center of the universe isn't set to EDT, no matter how hard Bill Gates tries?
Cute. But ...
Many years ago I went for an interview. The guy asked me the usual stupid questions for a while, and then out of nowhere he asked me, "How long would it take to move 50 words from one location in memory to another?"
I replied that it sort of depended upon the machine, whereupon he asked me to pick a machine. This was back in the days of the HP-2100 so I picked that. Hmmm. Two microcseconds per instruction, four instructions in the loop, about 400 microseconds. The guy went on to his next question without even commenting.
"Wait," I stopped him. "Why did you ask me that?"
"You'd be surprised how many people come in here who have no idea about how long a computer takes to do something. They might think that a tenth of a second is fast, or they might think that processors can do anything in a half a microsecond."
Of course, I knew he was right. (I met the guy again about ten years later, and I reminded him about this.)
ML/NJ
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