Yiming Liao of China is Studio Design Champion of 2007 TopCoder Open Sponsored by AOL

Yiming Liao of China is Studio Design Champion of 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 Yiming Liao of China won
the TopCoder Studio Design track of the 2007 TopCoder Open
Sponsored by AOL which took place at the Mirage Hotel in
Las Vegas, Nevada on June 29th. This marks the first time a
graphic design competition has been included in a TopCoder
program of events.

    Liao, also known by his TopCoder name yiming, is from
the Nanshan District of Shenzhen and employed by the China
Merchants Bank. He won the $15,000 grand prize for his
successful submission of a redesign of the TopCoder Studio
home page (http://studio.topcoder.com). To view his
TopCoder member profile please visit (
http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MemberProfile&cr=10481546
) .

    This year's 2007 TopCoder Open sponsored by AOL
attracted more than 4,600 registrants from TopCoder's
community of 116,000 members representing almost every
country on Earth. 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 as well as
graphic design.

    About TopCoder, Inc.

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evaluating and mobilizing effective software development
resources. Through its proprietary programming competitions
and rating system, TopCoder recognizes and promotes the
abilities of the best programmers around the world. 
TopCoder software harnesses the talent of these developers
to design, develop and deploy software through its
revolutionary competitive development methodology.
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and design, distributed development using reusable
components, and a rigorous quality assurance review process
that results in higher quality, lower cost software
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