April 21, 2006

At Computing's Olympics, a Russian Team Takes the Gold; MIT Finishes 7th

By BROCK READ

Saratov State University, an institution of over 28,000 students nestled on Russia's Volga River, earned top honors last week in an annual event that could fairly be called the Olympics of undergraduate computer science.

Teams from 83 colleges descended on San Antonio, Tex., for the event, the Association for Computing Machinery's 30th annual International Collegiate Programming Contest. The grueling competition asked three-student teams to solve 10 complex computing problems in just

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