By Li Han
Staff Writer of the Tsinghua News Center
The Tsinghua team won a gold medal in the 31st Annual ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals on March 15 in Tokyo. The team, composed of three undergraduate students (Hu Weidong, Lou Tiancheng, and Ge Rong) from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, won the gold medal by solving seven problems with the penalty of 1,200 minutes.
A total of 6,099 teams from 1,756 universities in 82 countries participated in the contest. In all 88 teams went into the final competition.
Initiated in 1970, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is one of the most influential competitions for global university students to compete in computer programming. The top four teams in the competition won gold medals. Warsaw University Won the overall gold medal by solving eight problems with the penalty of 1,405 minutes.
