Iran 5th in Informatics Olympiad

All four members of the Iranian team have won medals at the 24th International Olympiad in Informatics, held in Milan, Italy, in September.

The Iranian team comprised four students and two Sharif University professors ranked fifth at the event, ISNA reported.

Hamed Valizade from Tehran province and Saeed Illchi from Alborz province each bagged a gold medal, while Alireza Farhadi from Qazvin and Mohammad Reza Maleki from Tehran won a silver medal each.

In 2011, the Iranian computer team managed to grab three silver and one bronze medals in the 23rd round of the competitions held in Thailand.

The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) is one of the most recognized computer science competitions in the world. The competition’s tasks are of algorithmic nature and the contestants have to show such basic IT skills as problem analysis, design of algorithms and data structures, programming and testing.

The winners of the IOI belong to the best young computer scientists in the world. The IOI is one of the international science Olympiads. The primary goal of the IOI is to stimulate interest in informatics (computing science) and information technology.
Another important goal is to bring together exceptionally talented students from various countries and to have them share scientific and cultural experiences. The international committee supervises the IOI.

The Olympiad is organized annually in and by one of the participating countries. Each participating country typically sends a delegation of four students and two accompanying adults. Many countries organize a national Olympiad in informatics to select the students for IOI.