June 25, 2014 the World championship on command Collegiate Programming Contest ACM ICPC (ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest) held in Yekaterinburg at the Ural Federal University (UFU). Igor Levitin stressed the importance of the competitions like ACM ICPC which help to identify people who are able to quickly adapt IT-technology to those problems whose solution should provide the Russian breakthrough in the development of modern technologies.
In the finals (Russia took them second time in a row), there participated 122 team (about a thousand students programmers) from 41 countries, including 12 teams from Russia.
Team of Moscow State University took the second place and won the gold medal, losing to the team victory SPSU only by time spent on a problem solving. This is the ninth victory of Russian students at the world championships on programming. The third was the team of the Peking University, and the fourth – the team at National Taiwan University.
The honour of the Moscow State University was defended by Viktor Omelyanenko, Michael Pyaderkin (Mechanics and Mathematics) and Gleb Yevstropov (Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics). The team leader was Anton Pankratov (Mechanics and Mathematics). According to the results of the final Moscow University took the first place in the ranking of universities in the North-Eastern European region (NEERC ACM ICPC).
The next championship will be held in the summer of 2015 in Marrakech (Morocco).
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