Edwin Bendyk: – This year, Poland is hosting the final of the World Academic Collaborative Programming Championship for the first time. Football doesn’t need to be explained, but what are IT jobs?
Prof. Krzysztof Diks: – The Team Programming Championship is the most prestigious IT competition in the world. It has been played since 1977. This year, 25,016 students from 2,219 universities in 85 countries participated. 112 winning teams in regional competitions come to Warsaw. Only one team of three people can represent a university. Bands will be performing including: from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, Asian and Russian Universities. Poland is represented by the Polytechnic University of Poznań, the Jagiellonian University, the University of Warsaw and the University of Wrocław.

Why is the final organized by Poland and the University of Warsaw?
Our students participated for the first time in 1994. The team from the University of Warsaw always reached the final and took high places, we won twice – in 2003 and 2007. We achieve similar results in other other competitions, such as the Facebook Hacker Cup, Google Code Jam and Microsoft Imagine Cup. In the ranking of the prestigious TopCoder competition, our university has been ranked first for many years, currently we are third – behind the University of Tokyo and China’s Tsinghua University. I think that in such a situation, the proposal to organize the championship final in Poland, submitted by prof. Jan Madey, the initiator of this type of competition in Poland, could not refuse.

What is the competition?
The teams have a computer, five hours and approx.

Original title of the text: “Running Talents”