"I am pleased with our performance today. It feels pretty good," Igor Kulkin, 21, said after his team from Saratova State University won the 2006 Association for Computing Machinery's International Collegiate Programming Contest.From an article in [link|http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/04/13/battle.of.the.brains.ap/index.html|CNN]
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There were three runner-up gold medal winners each winning $3,000: the University of Twente in the Netherlands, Altai State Technical University in Russia and Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland.
Three schools shared in $2,100 and a silver medal: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, St. Petersburg State University in Russia and China's Shanghai Jai Tong University.
Bronze medals and $1,050 in prize money went to Ufa State Technical University of Aviation and Moscow State University, both in Russia, as well as two Canadian schools: the University of Waterloo in Ontario and the University of Alberta.
At least one US school managed to place...