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Press-release (03.03.2004).
The results of the Third Contest-conference on Microsoft technologies in software engineering and software development were summed up at the Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnic University (SPbSPU) on the 2nd of March this year. This is the second time when Karelian representatives, students of the Mathematical Faculty of Petrozavodsk State University, took the first place (project DaCoPAn) on this prestigious contest. The PetrSU team consisted of Kirill Kulakov, Andrey Anan'in, Mihail Kryshen, Andrey Salo, Viktor Surikov and was supervised by Dr. Yury A. Bogoyavlensky and Dr. Dmitry G. Korzun.
The Project DaCoPAn is a student pilot project on distributed software engineering (see http://dacopan.cs.karelia.ru). This is the first student project of such kind both in Russia and Finland. Finnish students were Jonathan Brown, Vesa Vainio, Jarkko Laine, Jari Aarnila, Alejandro Fernandes, Carlos Arrastia under supervision of Professor Imkeri Verkamo, Dr. Juha Taina and lecturer Turjo Tuohiniemi. The UH team shares the win at this contest with the PetrSU team.
The Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnic University is one of leading Russian universities in software engineering education. During last 5 years the contest-conference of students from the North-West region of Russia and neighbor countries have been hold in cooperation with such software companies as Microsoft and Motorola. At this conference young developers show their skills and results on software engineering, exchange the experience, listen lectures of well-known experts from industry as well as scientists from academic community. Similar conferences are also hold in Moscow and Novosibirsk. Practically these are the only large conferences in Russia on such important topic, oriented on student involvement in practice and theory of industry software engineering.
Contest projects were shared by 3 sections: "Software products and systems", "Perspective methods of software engineering", "Perspective methods and algorithms of programming". The conference consisted of 3 rounds: 1) selective round based on provided project abstracts (more than 300), 2) intermediate round (72 projects), where software products were demonstrated, and, finally, oral presentations of the best projects. The final combined the best projects from all sections. The conference jury was consisted of SPbSTU professors, docents, Motorola and Microsoft experts and also well-known programmers of some other companies. They have rich practical experience in the practical software development that satisfies industry standards.
12 best projects participated in the final round. Subjects of these projects were very various: from modern wireless communication technologies to novel methods of image recognition.
The project presented by our Departments has successfully passed all these rounds and finally got the first place.
This project corresponds to the PetrSU policy for intensive development of information technology. The leadership of the Petrozavodsk State University (rector Viktor N. Vasiliev, first vice-rector Anatoly V. Voronin, vice-rector on information technology Natalia S. Rusanova, vice-rector on international relations Nikolay R. Toivonen, dean of the Faculty of Mathematics Vladimir A. Shestakov) make the great effort for incorporating the University into the international educational environment. Information technology is one of the major directions. Programming teams from our university (permanently trained by Dr. Vladimir A. Kuznetsov) are known in the world for their progress at ACM international programming contests.
Great attention is also paid to the collaboration with western universities. One of the oldest partners of PetrSU is the University of Helsinki, one of the largest universities in Europe. This year we celebrate 12 years of the cooperation between Computer Science Departments of Petrozavodsk State University (http://www.cs.karelia.ru) and University of Helsinki (http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/). During the last 8 years the cooperation had been resulted in international scientific seminars — Finnish Data Processing Week at the Petrozavodsk State University. This cooperation is leaded by the Professor of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Helsinki, Honorary Doctor of PetrSU Timo Alanko and the head of the Department of Computer Science of PetrSU, Dr. Yury A. Bogoyavlenskiy.
The Department of Computer Science also actively contributes to research and application of information technology. Advanced methods and technologies in software engineering are actively applied in educational process of the Faculty and the Department. Annually student programming teams study practical development of almost real software engineering problems with accordance to international standards and industrial practice.
Quality of these projects is highly rated by well-known Russian and foreign experts. Software projects were presented at various conferences at Petrozavodsk, Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Abrau, Helsinki.
Finally, we would like to note that the Department of Computer Science will continue the progress and research in information technology area.

Yury A. Bogoyavlenskiy
Dmitry G. Korzun