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UW students with a silver medal in the world finals of collegiate programming contest

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Students of the University of Warsaw won a silver medal in the World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, finishing in the fifth place. Students of the University of Wroclaw brought home a bronze medal. Winners were the team from St. Petersburg State University.

This year\'s World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest were held in Phuket, Thailand. 128 teams from the best universities in the world, selected in regional contests, competed for the title of champions. Central Europe was represented by six teams, three of them from Poland: University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University and the University of Wroclaw.

The team from St. Petersburg State University won the competition. The next three places and gold medals went to the teams from Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China, the American Harvard University and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

In fifth place was the team of students from the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, composed of Wojciech Nadara, Marcin Smulewicz, Marek Sokołowski. The students were among the four teams awarded silver medals. The remaining silver medals went to students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA); St. Petersburg ITMO University (Russia); Ural Federal University (Russia).

In the following places, with bronze medals, were the teams from: the University of Wroclaw; Russian Nizhny Novgorod State University; Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine); Fudan University (China).

Played for the 40th time, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is organized by the Association for Computing Machinery, an association of IT professionals, both practitioners and theorists. It is the oldest, most prestigious and largest in terms of number of participants event of this type. Three person university teams from around the world participate in the competition.

Poland first participated in the competition in 1994. Our teams won the competition twice, in 2003 in Beverly Hills (USA) and in 2007 in Tokyo. Each time the winners were computer scientists from the University of Warsaw.

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