Chinese and u. S. Universities share top spots with russian schools in acm international programming contest acm president Cites Importance of Computing and Computer Science Education in Driving Innovation in the Global Economy new york – May

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ACM President Alain Chesnais applauded the global reach of ACM-ICPC and its allure for the world’s top computing programmers. “This competition draws the brightest young computing talent and brings recognition of their achievements to the global technology community. It offers expanding career opportunities for the participants, but it also illuminates the role of computing in solving problems, driving innovation, and benefiting society in boundless ways,” he said.

The five top Russian Federation universities included St. Petersburg State, Nizhny Novgorod State, Saratov State, Moscow State, and Ural State, finishing fourth, fifth, sixth, tenth, and eleventh respectively. In addition, Germany’s Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg took seventh place, Ukraine’s Donetsk National University was in the eighth spot, Poland’s Jagiellonian University in Krakow came in ninth, and Canada’s University of Waterloo finished twelfth.
ACM’s Chesnais also pointed to the importance of computer science education in the competitive global economy. He noted ACM’s efforts to help high school students, teachers, and parents better understand the many careers enabled by studying computer science. For example, ACM launched Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) www.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.


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