Bloomberg: “At 21, Gennady Korotkevich is already a Legend”

“Bloomberg Business”, one of the leading European business magazines, wrote about Gennady Korotkevich, ITMO University student, who gained international reputation of the winner of prestigious international sport-coding contests.

The largest part of the article was about Gennady`s achievements, that made him “the world's top sport programmer.” It also contained interviews with IT Experts about the future of young genius.

“Gennady Korotkevich was born in Gomel. His parents are also programmers. At the age of 8 he placed 2^nd at Belarussian programming contest. Moreover, his points were enough to enter Harvard University without entrance examinations. When he was 12 Gennady placed 20^th at International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). Being a 21 year-old man, he can solve almost all complicated coding puzzles. Largest IT companies wanted to hire him, but he decided to return to classes at ITMO University,” wrote Ashlee Vance.

This article also shared peculiarities and rules of different contests as Facebook Hacker Cup and ICM ICPC. Hacker Cup was initiated in 2011 in order to chose the best programmers giving them an opportunity to join Facebook`s staff. However then this competition turned into the largest sport-coding contest.

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Artur Ahmedov

News portal editorial office