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Zhejiang University Students Seize "world's Smartest" Trophy at the "battle of the Brains"
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Zhejiang University students were recently named World Champions of the 2011 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), also known as Battle of the Brains, in which 105 university teams compete to solve some of the most challenging computer programming problems. The Zhejiang team successfully solved eight problems in five hours.
"Although many of these students will become software experts and technology leaders in the future, we want to help them understand business issues and real world problems that they are going to face when their generation will take over the responsibilities," says Michael Karasick of IBM, which sponsored the contest.
In addition to the contest, participants interacted with IBM executives, fellow students, and technologies from around the globe. "The ICPC is not just an international computer contest; it's a meeting place for some of the smartest brains in the world to come together and harness their talents in an effort to make life better for people everywhere," says ICPC's Bill Poucher.
The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Tsinghua University, St. Petersburg University, and Nizhny Novgorod State University finished the competition in second, third, fourth, and fifth places, respectively.
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