{"id":22509,"date":"2016-05-23T18:49:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T10:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=22509"},"modified":"2016-05-23T18:58:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T10:58:09","slug":"st-petersburg-state-university-wins-ibm-sponsored-international-collegiate-programming-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/05\/23\/st-petersburg-state-university-wins-ibm-sponsored-international-collegiate-programming-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg State University wins IBM-sponsored International Collegiate Programming Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHUKET, THAILAND \u2013 Students from St. Petersburg State University topped the of the 40th<\/sup>\u00a0ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) world finals. Sponsored by IBM, the contest that was this year hosted at Prince of Songkla University in Phuket, brought together over 1,400 developers from 40 countries to: 1) compete on an elite level of programming, and 2) interact and build with IBM\u2019s developer tools and APIs on IBM Cloud.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Students<\/a>

Students from St. Petersburg State University topped the of the 40th ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) world finals.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Ateneo de Manila University, the sole university to represent the Philippines, placed 85th<\/sup> among 128 university teams, each comprised of three students, which solved a series of real-world programming problems in just five hours.<\/p>\n

For IBM\u2019s Andrew Hately, ICPC\u2019s goal to solve \u201creal-world programming problems\u201d is beneficial to everyone. \u201cThe more problems are solved, the better it is for the industry. (Inadvertently) this is good for IBM, too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Dr. Bill Poucher, ICPC executive director and Baylor University professor, the annual gathering highlights how \u201cif you invest more in your students, then you get better students. Everyone gets better the more you invest in them \u2013 this needs to be emphasized.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Gerald Lane, ACM-ICPC sponsorship executive and director, IBM Open Technologies & IP: \u201cThese students are the future leaders of our industry and we are committed to fostering their development with these critical technologies as they prepare to enter the global workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n

The position to \u201cinvest more to better the students\u201d was even more stressed in this year\u2019s gathering where only a handful of female programmers participated. According to Poucher, \u201copportunity for women in IT is unlimited. This is a promise land, so (they need to) get in there.\u201d Nonetheless, the current state (where there remain less female programmers participating in gatherings like ICPC) highlight that \u201cless investment get injected into developing them.\u201d And so \u201cthe number one thing to do is get more women to get in more programming, more math.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Ateneo<\/a>

Ateneo de Manila University, the sole university to represent the Philippines, placed 85th among 128 university teams.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Harvard University and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology finished the competition in second, third, and fourth places. This year\u2019s regional champions are:<\/p>\n