UNN students are among the top 15 leaders of Google Code Jam

The 13th Code Jam World Finals wrapped up in New York (USA) on August 5, 2016. In an intense battle of this prestigious annual programming contest, Vladislav Epifanov, a post-graduate student of the UNN ITMM Institute who is also a medalist of the 2011 and the 2016 ACM ICPC*, took the 12th place, and the 2016 medalist of ACM ICPC Nikolai Kalinin, a 3rd year student of the UNN Advanced School of General and Applied Physics who is also a medalist of the 2016 ACM ICPC, took the 14th place.

Google Code Jam is an international programming competition hosted and administered by Google. The competition began in 2003 as a means to identify top engineering talent for potential employment at Google but these days mostly attracts sport programmers. The competition consists of a set of algorithmic problems, which must be solved in a fixed amount of time.Unlike in most programming competitions, participants may use any programming language and development environment to obtain their solutions. Currently, 25 finalists are selected through several rounds out of tens of thousands of participants having a Google account and initially registered in the qualifying round. The winner gets the opportunity of employment in the company and 15 thousand dollars in prize money, and automatically enters the finals of the next Google Code Jam. Congratulations to our students!

* The ACM-ICPC (Association for Computing Machinery - International Collegiate Programming Contest) is a multi-tier, team-based, programming competition considered as the "Olympics of Programming Competitions".