Studenci WMIM w finale konkursu IMAGINE CUP

Szanowni Państwo,

miło mi poinformować o kolejnym sukcesie studentów
informatyki naszego Wydziału. Przemysław Dębiak i Piotr
Mikulski awansowali do finałów światowego konkursu
IMAGINE CUP w kategoriach Algorytm (Przemek i Piotr) oraz
Projekt Hoshimi - Bitwa Programistyczna (Przemek). Konkurs
jest organizowany przez Microsoft, a finały odbędą się
w czerwcu w Indiach. W drodze do finału nasi studenci
musieli pokonać konkurentów z całego świata w
dwuetapowych eliminacjach. Poniżej informacja o
finalistach. Nasi studenci kryja sie pod pseudonimami
Psycho (Przemek) i pmnox (Piotr). Gratulacje dla Przemka i
Piotra z życzeniami sukcesów w finałach.

-KD

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Announcing the Imagine Cup 2006 Online Finalists 

Tens of thousands of students representing countries in
every corner of the world have stepped up to the Imagine
Cup 2006 Challenge and now the results are in! After
several months of competition over two rounds, the list of
worldwide finalists has been determined and will assemble
to compete for the title of world champion in their
respective invitational later this year in India. 

Students competed against their peers in six invitationals
designed to challenge even the sharpest technical minds.
Those categories include Software Design, Algorithm,
Interface Design, IT, Short Film, and Project Hoshimi.
Finalists from each category will square off before a panel
of judges in Delhi, India, to showcase their work. This
year’s theme challenged the world’s top young
minds to "Imagine a world where technology enables us to
live healthier lives." 

And the finalists are... 

There are six finalists in the Algorithm category where
students put their problem solving skills to the test. The
finalists include pmnox/Poland, Grey/Russia, Psyho/Poland,
Nudelbrotsuppe/Germany, TPReal/Poland, and r1cs1/Hungary.
For these lucky few the competition will consist of a
24-hour onsite challenge against a series of very difficult
problems to determine the global champion. 

Short Film competitors participated as a team. A total of
six teams will travel to India and will also compete in a
24-hour filmmaking challenge. The top eight teams are Team
Forest/Canada, Team Echo/United States, Team
Skylined/Poland, Team LDLC/United States, Team
Saint/Taiwan, and Team Ottomans/Turkey. 

Interface Design is a brand new category for the Imagine
Cup, where students also competed in a team structure. The
teams advancing are FrontfreeStudio-UI/China,
johanna08/France, UniCore/Romania, Virtual Dreams/Brazil,
Moha/Jordan, and Avenger’s/India. Finalists will now
be judged on a combination of their past scores and an
onsite competition. 

After solving a series of challenging business questions,
the top six students advancing in the IT competition are
atomek/Austria, danymag/France, valygreavu/Romania,
fduca/France, hernanlionel/Italy, and gabic/Romania. 

Project Hoshimi is a programming battle where students
compete in different scenarios designed to test their
programming prowess. Six teams stood out from the rest to
earn the trip to the finals and a chance at being named
worldwide champion. Those are Royal Air Force/Serbia and
Montenegro, Team Lya/France, .PG/Japan, Psyho/Poland,
Atomnium/France, and Sunshineking/China. You’ll
notice that Psyho from Poland pulled the amazing feat of
qualifying for the finals in two events! 

For more details on the finalists, feedback on entries, or
how round 2 of the competitions went in general, please
visit the forums where these topics are already being
discussed. 

Congratulations to not only the finalists but to all the
competitors who stepped up to the challenge of the 2006
Imagine Cup!