Moscow State University and St.Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics Top-Ranked in World Largest Collegiate Programming Contest.

As in previous years students from the Moscow State University and St.Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics are among the top three Universities honoured in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)- International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), the world's largest and most prestigious computer programming competition. These teams became the secong and third right after students from Shanghai Jiaotong University and won gold medals. In addition team from Moscow State University became European chempion. Another Russian teams from Izhevsk State Technical University won bronze medal.

The 29th Annual ACM-ICPC World Finals sponsored by IBM was hosted by Shanghai JiaoTong University, April 3-7, 2005. teams consisted of three contestants sharing a single computer for five hours. Seventy-five participating teams represented nearly 1500 universities in over 70 countries. During the "battle of the brains" the teams were fighting against 10 complex, real-life problems.

The list of winners (number of solved problems):

1. Shanghai Jiaotong University (9)
   
2. Moscow State University (7)
   
3. St.Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics (7)
   
4. University of Waterloo (7)
   
5. University of Wroclaw (7)
   
6. Fudan University (7)
   
7. KTH - Royal Institute of Technology (6)
   
8. Norwegian University of Science & Technology (6)
   
9. Izhevsk State Technical University (6)
   
10. POLITEHNICA University Bucharest (6)
    
11. Peking University (6)
    
12. The University of Hong Kong (6)

You can see the full list of contest's finalists at ACM ICPC site