Star Software Co-sponsors Gold Winner of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals
Team of St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics won a gold medal at The 28th Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals held in Prague in the last week of March.
Apr 07, 2004
Team of St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics won a gold medal at The 28th Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals held in Prague in the last week of March. Star Software, a proud co-sponsor of the team, extends its heartfelt congratulations to the winners of the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world.
Seventy-thee winning teams from regional contests have qualified for the World Finals 2004. They were selected from 3,150 teams from 1,411 universities in 75 countries competing at 127 sites and hundreds more competing at preliminary contests worldwide. The teams were offered to solve 10 programming problems in a five-hour contest. Russian participants not only won the contest, but also showed magnificent results: 3 teams from Russia made the Top 10. Besides the team of St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics winning the competition, the team of Perm State University earned a Gold Medal, and Izhevsk State Technical University won silver.
About Star Software
Star Software is a leading Russian software outsourcing provider specializing in the implementation and maintenance of information systems. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with development facilities in St. Petersburg, Russia, Star Software has been serving international markets since 1991. It has marketing representatives in the USA, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and Denmark. In 2003 Star Software Corporation received the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 3 Rating.
Star offers particular expertise in database-intensive applications, migration of legacy systems to web-based environments, application maintenance and software localization. For corporate Knowledge Management solutions, Star Software offers proprietary data mining tools based on NLP (Natural Language Processing) techniques.
Former and current clients of Star Software include CSC/Denmark, IBM/Tivoli Systems, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Tupperware Deutschland, Berghof GmbH, Macromedia, Contex Scanning Technologies, STAC, Charite Clinic, Vocab AB, Foss Electric, LISA (Localization Industry Standards Association), and UNU (United Nations University). Among the end-customers for the developed software are Hugo Boss, Adidas, Schreyer, Danish Ministry of Labor, Danish Ministry of Tax and Customs, and many others.
For more information please visit Star Software on the web: www.star-sw.com
Seventy-thee winning teams from regional contests have qualified for the World Finals 2004. They were selected from 3,150 teams from 1,411 universities in 75 countries competing at 127 sites and hundreds more competing at preliminary contests worldwide. The teams were offered to solve 10 programming problems in a five-hour contest. Russian participants not only won the contest, but also showed magnificent results: 3 teams from Russia made the Top 10. Besides the team of St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics winning the competition, the team of Perm State University earned a Gold Medal, and Izhevsk State Technical University won silver.
About Star Software
Star Software is a leading Russian software outsourcing provider specializing in the implementation and maintenance of information systems. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with development facilities in St. Petersburg, Russia, Star Software has been serving international markets since 1991. It has marketing representatives in the USA, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and Denmark. In 2003 Star Software Corporation received the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 3 Rating.
Star offers particular expertise in database-intensive applications, migration of legacy systems to web-based environments, application maintenance and software localization. For corporate Knowledge Management solutions, Star Software offers proprietary data mining tools based on NLP (Natural Language Processing) techniques.
Former and current clients of Star Software include CSC/Denmark, IBM/Tivoli Systems, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Tupperware Deutschland, Berghof GmbH, Macromedia, Contex Scanning Technologies, STAC, Charite Clinic, Vocab AB, Foss Electric, LISA (Localization Industry Standards Association), and UNU (United Nations University). Among the end-customers for the developed software are Hugo Boss, Adidas, Schreyer, Danish Ministry of Labor, Danish Ministry of Tax and Customs, and many others.
For more information please visit Star Software on the web: www.star-sw.com