Chinese and Russian Universities Claim Nine of Top Ten Spots in Association for Computing Machinery International Programming Competition for Top Tech Talent; ACM President Applauds Efforts to Illuminate Role of Computing and Computer Science Education in Driving Innovation in the Global Economy

NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Four Chinese teams and five Russian teams dominated the top ten rankings of the 2010 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC, The ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest Web Site sponsored by IBM ) . Shanghai Jiaotong University took first place followed by Moscow State University. Third place went to National Taiwan University, and Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University finished fourth. The only non-Chinese or non-Russian team in the top ten was the University of Warsaw in eighth place.

This international competition, now in its 34th year, has been run by ACM (Welcome — Association for Computing Machinery), a society of more than 96,000 computing educators, researchers, professionals, and students worldwide, since the mid-1970s as the premiere programming competition. Financial and systems support for the competition is provided by IBM. The contest took place in Harbin, China with 103 teams competing in the final round. Earlier rounds of the competition included 22,000 contestants representing 1,931 universities from 82 countries. The top four teams won Gold medals as well as employment or internship offers from IBM. Full results are available at ICPCWiki: Results World Finals 2010 .

ACM President Professor Dame Wendy Hall cited the global nature of the ICPC event as an outstanding example of ACM's recent initiatives to extend its high-quality technical activities, conferences, and services for the computing profession, and to recognize computing achievement in international arenas. "This competition helps to illuminate the role of computing in driving innovation in a global environment, and to recognize achievements in these regions," she said. "By strengthening ACM's ties in multiple regions throughout the world and raising awareness of its many benefits and resources with the public and in-country decision-makers, we can play an active role in the critical technical, educational, and social issues that surround the computing community. "

As part of its initiative to focus on international activities, ACM introduced the ACM Europe Council (http://europe.acm.orghttp://india.acm.org) aimed at Indian ACM members and activities. An ACM China Council with representation from leaders throughout this region is expected to be introduced in the near future.

Dame Wendy also pointed to the importance of computer science education in the competitive global economy. She noted ACM's efforts to help high school students, teachers, and parents better understand the kinds of careers enabled by studying computer science. For example, ACM launched Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek, CSEdWeek.org ) with its partners in December 2009, to raise awareness of the transformative role of computing and the need to bolster computer science at all educational levels. The website created for this effort serves as the interactive and central resource hub for CSEdWeek, engaging supporters to prepare students with the knowledge and skills they need for the 21st century.

ABOUT ACM: ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery (Welcome — Association for Computing Machinery), is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers, professionals, and students to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges. ACM strengthens the computing profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking.

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CONTACTS: Virginia Gold, 212-626-0505, vgold@acm.org

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Iniciado por cacereño

En España no hay trabajo tan cualificado que necesite un programador de esas características. Esos programadores tienen demanda en aplicaciones muy específicas del tipo software para misiles, resolución de problemas científicos muy complejos, sistemas de navegación autonómos, etc... En España no se necesita nada más allá de las altas, bajas y modificaciones, de hecho, las empresas están llenas de biólogos, químicos, etc... picando código. Por algo será.

Iniciado por Nopleravet

Taiwan no es china, por mucho que se empeñen.

Iniciado por Tuttle

En España, lo que no hay son empresarios con pelotas para apostar por la alta tecnología, y ese es nuestro problema estructural más grave. Por otra parte el nivel de nuestros informáticos es muy bajo por la pesima calidad de nuestras escuelas del ramo.

Iniciado por Nopleravet

Taiwan no es china, por mucho que se empeñen.

Iniciado por Nopleravet

Taiwan no es china, por mucho que se empeñen.

Iniciado por Inflaktor

De hecho, taiwan es la "República de China", al menos aún hay quien así lo reconoce y lo otro es la "República Popular China"
Pero vamos, que de todos modos hablamos de programadores hipercualificados a precio de tejedores de chandals

Pasamos del Made in Taiwan al Developed in Taiwan... y llegaremos al "Designed" en dos días...

Acojona eh?