Team tonosama has won a gold medal after finishing in fourth place at the 48th International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals, held in Astana, Kazakhstan from September 15 to 20, 2024. Although the student team recorded as many correct answers as the top three teams, they came in fourth due to the time it took them to answer the questions.
The gold medal is an honor that indicates the top tier in the ICPC, and is the result of the world recognizing the high technical and competitive abilities of Team tonosama.
Team tonosama members
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Yasunori Kinoshita
2nd-year master’s student, Mathematical and Computing Sciences
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Kosuke Kaneshita
1st-year master’s student, Computer Science
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Riku Kishida
2nd-year master’s student, Mathematical and Computing Sciences
Team coach
- Assistant Professor Yoshiki Nakamura, School of Computing
Comments from Team tonosama’s Kaneshita
Individuals can only compete in the ICPC World Finals twice, and this was my second time participating. As this was my last contest both as an individual participant and as a member of Tokyo Tech, I am very happy to have achieved the best result in Tokyo Tech’s history. We came in sixth place in the regional championships, so it was great for the team to get our revenge and ultimately achieve the highest ranking in the Asia-Pacific region. Besides the contest, we had a valuable and enjoyable time interacting with students from other universities and participating in related events.
International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)
CPC is the world’s premier programming competition, in which university students from around the world compete in programming techniques and algorithm design skills. The teams, each with three members, work to solve real-world challenges. Participating teams are selected through domestic contests, regional contests, and in the case of Japan, the Asia-Pacific championship, and then go on to compete in the world finals.
In 2024, four teams from Japan — one each from Tokyo Tech,* the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, and Osaka University — participated in the contest. Tokyo Tech won a gold medal while the University of Tokyo won a silver medal.
* Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) merged on October 1, 2024, to form Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo).
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Contact
Professor Shin-ya Nishizaki
Center for Information Infrastructure
Email nisizaki@cs.titech.ac.jp