Four-student IIIT-Hyderabad team selected for Olympics of Programming

HYDERABAD: Four students from IIIT-Hyderabad have entered the ACM-ICPC World Finals, commonly known as the “Olympics of Programming”.

The TooWeakTooSlow team comprising Tanuj Khattar, C.G. Vedant and Rajas Vanjape, all 4th year CSE/CSD students, have consistently won the regional onsite as well as online rounds ranking as the No. 1 team across India.

Other Indian teams to advance to the finals are from IITs — Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Patna Rourkee and IIIT-Bangalore. According to the ICPC website, 46,381 contestants from 2,948 universities from 103 countries competed in regional competitions at over 530 sites worldwide, this year.

The competition pits teams of three university students against eight or more real-world problems within a five-hour deadline which will test their logic, teamwork strategy and mental endurance. There will be nearly 135 teams in the finals.