[Skunkworks] China dominates NSA-backed coding contest

China dominates NSA-backed coding contest Chinese student, 18, wins, prompting call for earlier math and science education in U.S. Programmers from China and Russia have dominated an international competition on everything from writing algorithms to designing components. Whether the outcome of this competition is another sign that math and science education in the U.S. needs improvement may spur debate. But of the 70 finalist in it, 20 were from China, 10 from Russia and only two from the U.S. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/060909-china-dominates-nsa-backed-codi... ________________________________ You can bet that American companies (cash and charism) will get more from these geeks, than their own nations will.