Daijiworld News Network – Mangalore/ Suratkal (VM)

Mangalore, Mar 27: The online programming contest ‘Inscriptions’ held as part of ‘Engineer 2006’ at the National Institute of Technology –Karnataka (NIT-K) Suratkal had an overwhelming response with a total of 915 teams participating in the contest.

A total of 1,800 participants from around 15 countries took part in the contest which was held on Sunday, March 26.

The unprecedented global participation was the highlight of this year’s event wherein more than 75 international teams from various corporations and universities took part.
The participants had to solve problems online and submit it over the internet. This event went on for not less than eight hours with over 2,000 submissions to the problems.

What made this event a success is the wide publicity over the internet, admits Anil Kumar Katti, coordinator of the event.

The contest was dominated by Chinese universities taking three of the top five positions with Nanjing, Zhejiang and Tsinghua Universities leading the brigade. Nanjing Foreign School and Yahoo Corporation, USA took top two places. University of Ulm, Germany was placed fifth.

The event not only provided a competing platform for the programmers, but also was able to pit the programming skills of the university students against the established programmers from the corporate world.

Leading the Indian pack in the final ranking was a team from Chennai Mathematical Institute taking the eighth place. The Indian corporates that figured prominently in the final rankings were led by a team from DE Shaw, Hyderabad.

Some of the other corporate teams included Infosys Technologies, Trilogy India, Codito Technologies Pune, Cisco India and Microsoft India.

Some of the Indian universities that appeared in the final rankings include NIT Trichy, NIT-K Suratkal, IIT Hyderabad and Allahabad, IIT Kanpur and RVCE Bangalore.