Stanford programming talents are thinning

harvardfan
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:55:03 +0000

It appears that the talent pool of Stanford is getting a little dry in the last 20 years. Teams of computer geeks from United States have not won international collegiate programming competition in more than a decade(ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). In the just concluded ‘Battle of the brains’ tournament, teams from the US, including MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Carnegie-Mellon, Connell were pushed out of the medal podium (ICPCWiki: Results). I am not sure whether our talents are getting thin or our computer education is not so good after all. No wonder Google gets spanked by Baidu in China.