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Battle of the Brains crowns world champions
Los Angeles (CA) - It’s referred to as the Battle of the Brains, a challenge for the world’s top 100 university teams to use open standard technology in designing software that solves real-world problems. Each team of three students faced 11 programming conundrums, with varying degrees of difficulty. St. Petersburg State University of IT, Mechanics and Optics solved nine of the problems to return home with the “world’s smartest” trophy. It remains unclear how the winning group would handle itself when faced with a barrage of wedgies, purple nurples, and wet willies.
This year's top twelve teams that received medals are:
- St. Petersburg State University of IT, Mechanics and Optics, (GOLD, WORLD CHAMPION)
- Tsinghua University, (GOLD, 2nd Place)
- St. Petersburg State University, (GOLD, 3rd Place)
- Saratov State University, (GOLD, 4th Place)
- University of Oxford, (SILVER, 5th Place)
- Zhejiang University, (SILVER, 6th Place)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (SILVER, 7th Place)
- Altai State Technical University, (SILVER, 8th Place)
- University of Warsaw, (BRONZE, 9th Place)
- University of Waterloo, (BRONZE, 10th Place)
- I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, (BRONZE, 11th Place)
- Carnegie Mellon University, (BRONZE, 12th Place)
The 100 teams in the World Finals in Stockholm were selected from 7109 teams of 1838 universities from 88 countries on six continents. Since 1997, the IBM-sponsored ICPC has grown 800% in size.
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