Zhejiang University Students Seize "World's Smartest" Trophy at the "Battle of the Brains"

Zhejiang University Students Seize "World's Smartest" Trophy at the "Battle of the Brains"

105 universities from around the world compete in International Collegiate Programming Contest

ORLANDO, Fla., May 31, 2011 -- Students from Zhejiang University have been crowned World Champions of the 2011 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) on Monday, May 30. Sponsored by IBM (NYSE: IBM), the competition, also known as the "Battle of the Brains," challenged 105 university teams to solve some of the most challenging computer programming problems in just five hours.

Mastering both speed and skill, Zhejiang University successfully solved eight problems in five hours. The World Champions will return home with the "world's smartest" trophy as well as IBM prizes, scholarships and a guaranteed offer of employment or internship with IBM.

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  Zhejiang University, (GOLD, WORLD CHAMPION, CHINA)
  
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  University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, (GOLD, 2nd Place, USA)
  
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  Tsinghua University, (GOLD, 3rd Place, CHINA)
  
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  St. Petersburg State University, (GOLD, 4th Place, RUSSIA)
  
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  Nizhny Novgorod State University, (SILVER, 5th Place, RUSSIA )
  
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  Saratov State University, (SILVER, 6th Place, RUSSIA)
  
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  Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, (SILVER, 7th Place, GERMANY)
  
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  Donetsk National University, (SILVER, 8th Place, UKRAINE)
  
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  Jagiellonian University in Krakow, (BRONZE, 9th Place, POLAND)
  
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  Moscow State University, (BRONZE, 10th Place, RUSSIA)
  
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  Ural State University, (BRONZE, 11th Place, RUSSIA)
  
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  University of Waterloo, (BRONZE, 12th Place, CANADA)
  

The 105 teams that competed in the World Finals in Orlando represent the top competitors from more than 8,305 teams from 2,070 universities located in 88 countries on six continents. Since 1997, the IBM-sponsored ICPC has grown 1,000 percent in size.