Russian students win battle of brains

April 14 2006 at 10:40AM

By Matt Slagle

San Antonio - A team of three students from Russia proved their brainy prowess, winning an academic competition in which they had just five hours to solve perplexing computing puzzles such as how to connect gears of a clock when given a specific shaft speed.

"I am pleased with our performance today. It feels pretty good," Igor Kulkin, 21, said on Wednesday after his team from Saratov State University won the 2006 Association for Computing Machinery's International Collegiate Programming Contest. - Independent Online
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The top finishers of the 2006 Association for Computing Machinery's International Collegiate Programming Contest. -

1st Place - Gold Medal
Saratov State University, Russia


Gold Medal
University of Twente, Netherlands
Altai State Technical University, Russia Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland

Silver Medal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
St Petersburg State University, Russia
Shanghai Jai Tong University, China

Bronze Medal
Ufa State Technical University of Aviation, Russia
Moscow State University, Russia,
University of Waterloo in Ontario. Canada
University of Alberta, Canada