Windward Code Wars Winners to be the "Envy" of the Competition
Boulder, CO (PRWEB) January 23, 2014 -- Windward announced today that HP will donate its best-selling notebooks to the winners of the 2014 Windward International Collegiate Programming Championship. Every member of the top team will receive the ultimate programmer's notebook, the HP ENVY dv6t-7200 Quad Edition, from the world’s largest technology company.
Windward created and manages the championship, also known as the Windward Code Wars contest. The donation marks the second year in a row that HP has sponsored this unique international hackathon, which tests the programming knowledge, innovative thinking and teamwork of computer science college students.
"HP is the original engineering company and they have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to producing innovative software throughout the world," said David Thielen, Windward's founder and CTO. "We are grateful they have chosen to sponsor Windward Code Wars."
Teams that have already announced their eligibility for the HP laptops by registering for the 2014 contest include The College of William and Mary, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, Columbia University, Faculty of Engineering – Alexandria University (Egypt), Hartnell College, Harvey Mudd College, Princeton University, Purdue University – West Lafayette, St.Petersburg Polytechnical University, Universidad de las Ciencias Informaticas (Cuba), University of Alberta, University of Central Florida, University of Colorado – Boulder, University of Maryland College Park, University of Toronto, University of Utah, and University of Victoria.
The 2014 International Collegiate Programming Championship takes place Saturday, February 1. For more information, please visit http://www.windward.net/code-war/.
About HP
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. As the world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com.
About Windward
Windward delivers powerful document generation and reporting software for enterprise or OEM use. Businesses worldwide create custom reports and documents more quickly with data intelligence made easy. Windward has been delighting customers – technical and non – since 2004.
Annette Grotz, Windward Studios, http://www.windward.net, +1 (303) 499-2544 Ext: 1191, [email protected]
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