June 27, 2012

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Department of Computer Science and Engineering "ACM Programming Team" recently held in Warsaw, Poland 36th "ACM International Programming Contest" in the world's eighth in the finals, won the Silver Award. Race team consists of three undergraduate students, including two students majoring in computer science Luowei Han and Han Wenxuan, as well as the Yuanze Hui majoring in Quantitative Finance. This is Hong Kong's universities over the past two decades, played in the tournament's best score.

"ACM International Programming Contest" began in 1970, is the oldest, largest and most famous race-long computer programs, events are divided into local, national, regional and global finals in several stages, each year attracts the world's most top students to attend. Competition encourages students to creativity, innovation and teamwork design software, and also test the performance of the students are under pressure. This year a total of over twenty-five thousand from 85 countries over two thousand two hundred university students participated in the preliminary round, the last only 112 teams entered the finals. Students defeated in several traditional strong teams such as MIT, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Peking University, Princeton University, Moscow State University, St. Petersburg University, Tsinghua University, Tokyo University and National Taiwan University, Harvard University, placing him only after , won the eighth World Championships, won the Silver Award.

This is the second time to enter the world CUHK before ten. In 2000, the University has also achieved success eighth, this time the teams coach, Zhongshan University Department of Computer Science and Engineering Professor Liu Lizhi, it is one of the team that year. His other two teammates were already completed master's and doctorate, and is currently an IBM Corporation in the United States engaged in the research, and the other one in the local IT industry work. In fact, the large programming team at the ACM tournament outstanding performance, often become the world's leading IT organizations recruit objects. Past players have a lot to be Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM and other employment; also won a scholarship at the world-renowned universities such as the University of California at Berkeley, Brown University, University of Toronto, Princeton University, University of Southern California, Stanford University, Columbia University and other master's or doctorate. This year the team's Luowei Han are graduates, he has been employed as a software engineer at Facebook, Oh, to be achieved as soon as travel to the U.S. visa duty.