Posted on 09/14/2005 1:53:59 PM PDT by lizol
Poland top of the codes
Poland is now in the lead in the worldwide TopCoder computer programming competition, with Warsaw University top in the academic category. Slawek Szefs reports.
TopCoder is a continuous world-wide programming competition with weekly sessions and a huge annual tournament with onsite finals. Poland has just assumed the lead in the national category, while Warsaw University is at the top of the academic contest.
Poland has even left behind such a superpower as the United States in TopCoder's country ranking. Russia, Canada and China follow next in line. Warsaw University occupies first place among academic centers, outdistancing such renowned institutions as, for example, MIT!
What's even more encouraging is the fact that two other Polish universities are among the world's top 20 - University of Wroclaw is 13th and the Jagiellonian University of Krakow is currently ranked 14th ). Individually, Tomasz Czajka and Eryk Kopczynski place third and fourth, respectively, out of some 62,000 entrants!
Professor Jan Madey, head of Warsaw University's IT Department says this is NOT surprising that Polish universities and students attain such splendid results in the strongest international competition.
Andrzej Gasiennica-Samek is a 2003 world champion in the category of team programming and presently in charge of the research center at the prestigious ComArch company's Warsaw office. For him, being one of the best of the best means a good career and money, but also having a sense
And, adds Andrzej Gasiennica-Samek, he has no intention of pursuing his professional career outside Poland.
Professor Madey is equally convinced about his students looking for opportunities of professional development at home rather than abroad.
And looking at present rankings there is much evidence to substantiate the claim that Polish IT specialists are becoming the cream of the crop.
I knew when Poland was freed of Soviet domination that we could expect good things from them in the years that followed.
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