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Samuel Johnson

Ukrainian Students Win IBM “Great Minds” internship program 2008. Reflections

In December IBM committee nominated 6 winners of the Great Minds Initiative, which was launched in the summer 2007.

Among nominees, chosen by IBM committee, there are 3 representatives of Ukrainian Universities:

• Tetiana Levandovska - National Technical University (NTU), Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute,
• Alexander Maystrenko - National Technical University (NTU), Kiev Polytechnic Institute,
• Artem Nikulchenko - National Technical University (NTU), Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute.

Winners are granted 3 months internship in the Zurich Research Laboratory – the European branch of IBM Research working with world-class scientist on projects ranging from systems management, IT security, sensor networking, network profiling, business process modeling to supercomputing.

Ukraine keeps on drawing attention as a nation with good IT potential. The majority of analytical reports made by venerable research agencies states: Ukrainian IT specialists are professionals and Ukrainian higher education is good enough to prepare 30000 technicians annually. As a testimony – results of international conquest programs, such as, for example, Code Jams, organized by Google: three times Ukrainian programmers become their finalists – 2003, 2004 and 2006. But this, as well as many of the reports, goes about Ukrainian IT industry in terms of programming.

One of the exceptional values of Great Minds Initiative in this case is that it shows IT potential of Ukraine in terms of R&D (research and development). And hopefully, it’s first steps to generate a new scientific elite of the nation.

14 Jan 2008

• UOF 2007. Post Factum

  On November 1 – 2 Mirasoft Group participated in Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum 2007, which took place in Kiev.

• Mirasoft Group is 18

  On the 28th of September Mirasoft Group celebrated the 18th birthday. On such days, it is customary to recollect the significant of the past year.