Russia wins international programming contest in USA

NEW YORK, May 31 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian students got almost half of
all medals in team international programming contest in Orlando /Florida/.
The competition's final was on Monday. Out of twelve awards, Russia brings
home five, including one gold medal, which was won by students of St.
Petersburg's State University.
Thus, Russia has been leading in programming contests since 2005, as
at least one of four golden medals goes to Russia.
Russia's two other universities, from Nizhny Novgorod and Saratov, got
silver medals, and two bronze medals were given to the Moscow and the
Urals universities.
This year, the contest was organised for the 35th time. A team of tree
is to solve eight tasks within five hours. The team has only one computer
to use. The team which is the first to offer programmes solving most tasks
is the winner.
The Association for Computing Machinery's international programming
contest began in 1970 at Texas' A&M University. Since then, 8,305 teams
from over 80 countries have taken part in it. Every year, the final is
organised in a new country.
The contest in Orlando featured over 300 students of 105 teams.
Besides the golden medals, winners receive grants and a chance to practice
and work with IBM, which has been the general sponsor since 1997.