Two students from Fudan University have beat out nearly 21,000 programmers from around the world to enter the top 100 in a computer program design challenge, Code Jam, according to the event sponsor Google Inc.

 

Sheng Cheng, a second-year student, finished the event in 15th place, taking home a US$2,500 award. Altogether 13 Chinese entered the top 100 in the worldwide challenge.

 

(Shanghai Daily November 8, 2006)