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ITU Computer Engineering team first in Turkey - IEEEXtreme Programming Competition!

Nov 17, 2016 Congratulations to members of Team Bofstrogonof from Istanbul Technical University Department of Computer Engineering for entering the international IEEEXtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition and ranking 1st in Turkey, 52nd worldwide out of 2114 teams (44 from Turkey). Congratulations to our students!

The competition, run by IEEE, runs for 24 hours and teams are required to solve a cascade of difficult computer programming problems. As a 24-hour competition, competitors battle sleeplessness while employing their wits in a race against time and mental dissolution.

Team Bofstrogonof (left to right): Burak Buğrul, Burak Yalçınkaya, Besim Ongun Kanat.

You can follow the links provided below to reach the website of the competetion and rankings.

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/competitions/xtreme/index.html

http://sites.ieee.org/xtreme/files/2016/11/rank_by_country.pdf