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The 2015 ACM-ICPC World Finals sposored by IBM hosted by The Moroccan Association for Computing Machinery, Mohammed V University, Al Akhawayn University and Mundiapolis University were held today. The ACM international Collegiate Programming Contest, ICPC, traces its roots to a competition held at Texas A&M University   in 1970 hosted by the Alpha Chapter of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon   Computer Science Honor Society (UPE). The contest evolved into its present form as a multi-tier competition in 1977, with the first finals held in conjunction with the ACM Computer Science Conference

Second year Software Engineering students Vadim Drobinin and Alexander Zimin have been named the winners of the WWDC Scholarship. In June they will take part in the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which is an annual international conference for Apple developers held in California 8-12 June.

This is the first announcement of the MLHEP Summer School onMachine Learning for High Energy Physics, to be held atSaint-Petersburg, Russia, just before LHC Physics Conference on  August 27-30, 2015.

The International Research Conference AIST on Analysis of Images, Social Networks, and Texts took place at Yekaterinburg.

On September 6-11, 2015 the 39th Information Technologies and Systems Conference will take place at Hotel 'Imeretinskiy', which is situated in the Olympic village, Sochi, Russia. Conference organisers invite young researchers to submit the abstracts of their projects.

On April 17, 2015, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) announced the results of a competition for research projects carried out by teams of leading young researchers in 2015.

The Vietnam-Russia academic conference that took place in Hanoi in April decided to establish a Vietnamese-Russian Technological University (VRTU) on the basis of the Le Quy Don University of Science and Technology. HSE’s School of Software Engineering is to play a key role in this process.

Artem Stafeev, who received his bachelor's in Software Engineering in 2014, has become the first HSE representative to win a state grant to study at a foreign university as part of the new governmental programme Global Education.

Institutional cooperation between the Association and the Department has been expanded with the participation of three students who wrote their term and graduation papers under the supervision of the Department’s lecturers in the following fields:  Boolean and many-valued logics; Functional expressibility in closed classes; Blueprint trees and building a decision-making system in 3D shooters, based on deduction rules.

The famous Dutch computer scientist Wil van der Aalst has been made HSE Honorary Professor for his enormous contribution to the development of research and teaching programmes at the university and for reinforcing HSE’s international reputation.