On Nov. 10, MIT’s team of student coders made history by winning the globe’s oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest — the world finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the 45th world finals drew a live audience of over 1,600 viewers to the tense 12-problem competition, which featured 420 contestants representing 140 universities across 45 nations. The first ICPC World Finals was held in 1977, and the second (in 1978) was won by MIT — followed by many, many years of close misses…
