U.S. student programers falling behind
Filed in archive Information Technology Education by mstandaert on April 10, 2005
From ZDNet ...
At this year's association
for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, the University of Illinois's tie for 17th place was the best result for any U.S. team, representing the worst performance for U.S. institutions in the 29 years of the competition. Many observers believe the result is indicative of a variety of factors that have resulted in a striking shift in
technological preeminence away from U.S. schools and companies. As recently as 1997, the United States came out on top, when a team from Harvey Mudd College won the competition. David Patterson, president of the Association for Computing Machinery and a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, noted, "The U.S. used to dominate these kinds of programming Olympics." Others pointed out that applications from outside the United States to computer science and other technology programs at U.S. graduate schools have dropped lately.
More on this at Between the Lines.
At this year's association
for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, the University of Illinois's tie for 17th place was the best result for any U.S. team, representing the worst performance for U.S. institutions in the 29 years of the competition. Many observers believe the result is indicative of a variety of factors that have resulted in a striking shift intechnological preeminence away from U.S. schools and companies. As recently as 1997, the United States came out on top, when a team from Harvey Mudd College won the competition. David Patterson, president of the Association for Computing Machinery and a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, noted, "The U.S. used to dominate these kinds of programming Olympics." Others pointed out that applications from outside the United States to computer science and other technology programs at U.S. graduate schools have dropped lately.
More on this at Between the Lines.
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