Feng He of China Wins Component Development Competition in 2007 TopCoder Open Sponsored by AOL

Feng He of China Wins Component Development Competition in 2007 TopCoder Open Sponsored by AOL

July 10, 2007

    GLASTONBURY, Conn., July 4 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
TopCoder(R), Inc., the leader in online programming
competition, skills assessment and competitive software
development, today announced that Feng He of China won the
software component development track of the 2007 TopCoder
Open Sponsored by AOL, which took place at the Mirage Hotel
in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 29th.

    He, also known by his TopCoder name hengfe, is from the
Chongwen District of Beijing, China. He won the $15,000
first prize for his successful development of a series of
components used in stress testing, AJAX web applications
and dynamic web page data handling. In second place was
Ninghai Huang (PE), also of China, and Oyvind Grotmol
(cnettel) of Vange, Sweden was third place winner.

    To view hengfe's TopCoder member profile visit
http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MemberProfile&cr=15214882
. 

    To view a full schedule of daily component events,
visit
http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=ViewActiveContests&ph=113
.

    This year's competition attracted more than 4,600
registrants from TopCoder's community of 116,000 members
representing the entire globe. An elite group of 77
finalists were invited from around the world to Las Vegas
to compete in computing science disciplines such as
algorithms and software component design and development. 

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