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.
Actually, the POlish scientists broke the first engima codes. However the Nazis made the Enigma machine more sophisticated, so the Poles couldn’t break the codes. It was then they gave the captured enigma machine to the British. The computer genius Alan Turing developed new methods and the first computer systems to crack new codes, without whom, the war would have lasted another seven years.
Yes indeed Marin broke the first code (Poland siezed the Engima machine) which was their big achievment. The codes increased in diffiuclty, its then, the Poles asked the British for help. Alan Turing was the first computer pioneer for code-breaking technology.
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