14-year-old Belarusian wins International Olympiad in Informatics

Re:14-year-old Belarusian wins International Olympiad in Inf... by ramchip on Saturday August 15, 2009 @10:08AM (#764752)

This is a competition for school students, so the fact that he's 14 isn't very surprising.

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Re:14-year-old Belarusian wins International Olympiad in Inf... by pesho on Saturday August 15, 2009 @10:54AM (#764792)

He still has four more years of high school and he's already won an absolute first place at IOI. I don't get what's not very surprising.

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Re:14-year-old Belarusian wins International Olympiad in Inf... by marcog1 on Saturday August 15, 2009 @11:03AM (#764796)

From what I hear he has 3 more years. It's damn impressive when you consider who he had to beat and the problems they were given. He also came into this year's IOI with two golds and one silver from previous years, so he has a lot of experience. Another major feat is that he recently became the youngest TopCoder target (top 20 or so in an open ranking system).

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Re:14-year-old Belarusian wins International Olympiad in Inf... by ams6110 on Saturday August 15, 2009 @03:42PM (#765109)

My guess is he'll be moving on from high school early.

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