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IIT Mumbai, IIT Chennai and NIT Trichy winner in 31st ACM (Association for Computer Machinery)

IBM India felicitated the winners from India, who qualified in the Asian regional rounds leading to the finals of the 31st ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) 2006. ACM-ICPC is the oldest and the largest computer-programming contest in the world, and helps facilitate the recognition of upcoming high caliber engineering talent across the globe.

India’s winners this year -, IIT Mumbai, IIT Chennai and NIT Trichy - were felicitated by Nobel Laureate J. Georg Bednorz in an IBM event today, and will compete in the world finals being held in Tokyo, Japan on March 12- 15th 2007. The ACM-ICPC regional contest, which helps determine qualification of teams for the final contest, was held in India for the 8th year in a row, with participation from more than 154 teams comprising 460 students from more than 100 colleges across India and neighboring countries.

Felicitating the students, IBM Fellow and Nobel Laureate, J. Georg Bednorz said, “In today’s extremely competitive scenario, possessing technical competence alone is not enough. Students need to be prepared for real life, and also posses other skills crucial to their success as professionals. Today, agility and ability to respond to dynamic environments is critical to the success of any engineering effort. In the real world, IT professionals have to deliver under tight deadlines, hectic schedules and ever changing requirements – the ACM-ICPC contest helps students focus on, and strengthen this particular skill.”

More : itvarnews.net

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