SCIANT's employee at the World Finals of the ACM-ICPC 2006

Nikola Momchev, a member of the 19th placed software development team and a software engineer at SCIANT, took a part at the annual World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest.

Over 5,600 teams representing 1,733 universities from 84 countries participated in the competition. The three member team 22 year old students from the Sofia University (Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics), placed 19th out of the 83 teams reaching the final round of competition.

The ICPC is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious competition in computing sciences and engineering among the world's great universities. The contest pits teams of three university students against eight or more complex, real-world problems, with a grueling five-hour deadline. Huddled around a single computer, competitors race against the clock in a battle of logic, strategy and mental endurance. Each incorrect solution submitted is assessed a time penalty. The team that solves the most problems in the fewest attempts in the least cumulative time is declared the winner.