Oman Welcomes the Best Programmers from Around the World
By: Harbour.Space University
Tags: Coding, Programming, Oman, Icpc, Competition

09/03/2019

Muscat, Oman

Muscat is about to become the meeting place for the best and brightest minds in the world. For the first time ever, Phaze Ventures — a leading venture capital platfrom from Oman together with the German University of Technology (GUTech) — is organising a competitive programming training camp that will attract 100 students from top universities and their coaches to Muscat. The event is on track to become one of the largest competitive programming training camps in the Middle East.

Hello Muscat ICPC Bootcamp will take place in Muscat between the 9th and the 15th of March 2019 and is organised by Phaze Ventures, GUTech and Harbour.Space University in collaboration with Moscow Workshops ICPC, Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia and a leading international financial institution — it is one of the world’s most valuable 25 banking brands, and Codeforces, the world’s biggest online competitive programming community that ranks coders all over the world and has more than 600’000 users.

The brightest students from top universities such as Stanford, University of Tokyo, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Saint Petersburg State University, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar and American University of Beirut among many others are heading to Muscat to train together for the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).

The ICPC is the Olympics of Programming Competitions, the premiere global computer programming competition conducted by and for the world’s top universities. In 2018, 50'000 contestants from 3’000 universities in 111 countries on six continents competed at over 500 sites to advance to the World Finals.

“Codeforces and Hello Muscat Bootcamp participants are not just talented students that win competitive programming competitions. They are the tip of the iceberg of the hardest working and brilliant minds of our generation that will go on to change the world as we know it. We do not yet realise the impact they will have on the future of humanity.” — Mike Mirzayanov

Former ICPC finalists have made remarkable achievements in the software industry and research. They include Adam D’Angelo, the former CTO of Facebook and founder of Quora, Nikolai Durov, the former CTO of VK and Telegram, Matei Zaharia, creator of Apache Spark, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos and a venture capitalist, Craig Silverstein, the first employee of Google.

“We are very excited to be launching Hello Muscat ICPC training camp. Our mission is to make our contribution to the global ICPC community and to help teams to prepare for Regional contests and World Finals,” said Svetlana Velikanova, Harbour.Space University founder and CEO. “Harbour.Space University will bring the world’s top coaches, past, current and future world champions to Muscat to provide a fantastic foundation for students from around the world to take their programming skills to the next level and open a world of new opportunities.”

“Hello Barcelona programming bootcamp is an opportunity for students from all over the world to prepare for ICPC and train in one team with their peers from the world’s leading universities of America, Europe, Middle East and Russia. For many, this will also be the opportunity to acquire a unique social capital. Some highly successful startup projects, for instance, have been launched by our former contestants.” — Alexey Maleev, Head of the Moscow Workshops. “Previous bootcamps by Moscow Physics and Technology Institute featured teams from 28 different European, Asian countries, and the US. Many those teams later became ACM ICPC Finalists and medalled. To be specific, 10 out of 13 prize-winners of the ICPC World Finals 2018 participated in these training camps!”

Hello Muscat training camp is organised with experienced and novice teams in mind. The training camp will prepare experienced teams to win medals in the next ICPC World Finals, beginner and intermediate-level teams will use this opportunity to prepare for ICPC regionals and it will serve as an introduction to the exciting world of competitive programming for novice teams.

“The training schedule consists mostly of full-length practice contests — a sort of “training manoeuvres” before big competitions — interleaved with one-day educational modules, including topics we find especially important. We make a point to provide in-depth explanations to every problem and technique encountered in all forms. Our tutors are professional educators and developers with a strong ICPC background and lots of experience to share.” — Filipp Rukhovich, Head of the Programming Committee.

Hello Muscat ICPC Bootcamp is supported by local and international stakeholders, including Phaze Ventures, Global Catalyst Foundation, GUtech, Codeforces, AtCoder and CodeChef.

How to Participate

Hello Muscat ICPC Bootcamp is open to all university students and their coaches from around the world. More information, including how to register, interest in attending and to participate in other ways is available here.

About Harbour.Space University

Harbour.Space University offers innovative university degrees in Technology, Design and Entrepreneurship taught by industry leaders from around the world. The university’s mission is to nurture and speed up talent development.

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