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The University of Tokyo's team placed 7th in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)

Date : June 22 - 26, 2014

At the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) held in Yekaterinburg, Russia on Wednesday, June 25, 2014, representatives of The University of Tokyo who participated took 7th place out of 122 participating universities, winning a silver medal (gold medals were awarded to 1st-4th places, silver to 5th-8th places, and bronze to 9-12th places). The team consisted of three members: Kengo Nakasuka (first-year Master's student, Graduate School of Engineering), Ryoga Tanaka (fourth-year undergraduate student, Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science), and Ikumi Hide (second-year undergraduate student, College of Arts and Sciences).

ACM-ICPC accepts graduate and undergraduate students in teams of three members. It is an international contest in which the contestants compete to demonstrate their ability to solve problems through programming. Each team can use only one computer. This requirement allows not only individual abilities to be tested but also overall skills such as teamwork.

More teams are participating in ACM-ICPC each year, and the level of skills demonstrated is rising. In this year's preliminary round, 39,877 contestants from 2,286 universities in 94 countries participated. Teams from 122 universities that made it through the first round participated in the international contest. The University's team survived this intense competition by winning a silver medal, marking the third medal (*) in a row, setting a record for Japan.

At the Social ICT Research Center of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, some of the faculty members assist in running the contest as members of the ICPC Programming Contest.

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