Winners of Google india Code Jam 2005

20-year-old Ardian K Poernomo from Singapore, was declared winner of Google Code Jam 2005, hosted at the Google R&D Centre in Bangalore. Ardian, an undergraduate student was chosen as the best among the 14,000 entries from South Asia. Three Indians made it to the top five. Interestingly, four of the five toppers of the contest are students. Pascal Alfadian from Indonesia stood second, Rajsekar Manokaran from Chennai stood third, Nishant Redkar from Mumbai came fourth and Sreeram Ramachandran, an Indian-born lecturer from Singapore finished fifth.

There were three algorithms problems for final round. The first was to find out the unique URLs (universal resource locators); the second was trying to find the shortest possible path and the third was to calculate the probable winner among the two in a competition.

The first two winners received $6,900 (Rs 300,000) and Rs 200,000 ($4,500), while the Indian winners received Rs 125,000, Rs 75,000 and Rs 50,000.