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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU) is a private research uni-
versity in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It began as the Carnegie
Technical Schools, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. In 1912, the school
became Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year de-
grees. In 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon
Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University. The
Universitys 140-acre main campus is three miles from Downtown Pittsburgh
and abuts the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in the city’s Oakland
neighborhood.
The University has seven colleges and schools: the Carnegie Institute of
Technology (engineering), the College of Fine Arts, the College of Humanities
and Social Sciences, the Mellon College of Science, the Tepper School of
Business, the School of Computer Science, and the H. John Heinz III School
of Public Policy and Management.
Since its inception, Carnegie Mellon has grown into a world-renowned in-
stitution, with numerous programs that are frequently ranked among the best
in the world. In the most recent release of the Top 200 World Universities
by Times Higher Education, Carnegie Mellon was ranked 20th overall and
7th in technology.[5] In the 2008 edition, U.S. News World Report ranked
Carnegie Mellon’s undergraduate program 22nd in the nation amongst na-
tional research universities, and in the 2009 edition its graduate programs in
Computer Science 4th, Engineering 7th, Business 17th, Public Affairs 10th,
Fine Arts 7th and Psychology 9th. The university attracts students from
all 50 U.S. states and 93 countries and was named one of the ”New Ivies”
by Newsweek in 2006. Peer institutions of Carnegie Mellon include Caltech,
Cornell, Duke, Emory, Georgia Tech, MIT, Northwestern, Penn, Princeton,
RPI, and Stanford.[6]
Eusebio

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Eusbio da Silva Ferreira, GCIH, GCM (pron. IPA: (born January 25, 1942
in Mozambique - then an Overseas Province of Portugal), popularly known
simply as Eusbio, is a Portuguese former football forward of Mozambican
origin. He helped the Portugal national team reach third place at the 1966
World Cup, being the top goalscorer of the tournament with nine goals (six
of which were scored at Goodison Park) and was elected the European Foot-
baller of the Year in 1965. He played at the club Benfica for 15 years, and is
the team’s all-time top scorer.
Nicknamed ”The Black Panther”, or ”The Black Pearl”, Eusbio scored
727 goals in 715 games. He is also known for his speed and his powerful,
accurate right-footed strike. He is considered Benfica’s and Portugal’s most
renowned player and the first world-class African striker.[1] He was elected
the 9th best footballer of the 20th century in a poll by the IFFHS.[2] Pel
named Eusbio as one of the 125 best living footballers in his 2004 FIFA 100
list. In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA’s Jubilee, he was selected as the
Golden Player of Portugal by the Portuguese Football Federation as their
most outstanding player of the past 50 years.[3]
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
The Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP) is the en-
gineering faculty of the University of Porto, in Porto, Portugal. With its
origins in the 18th century, the institution became known as Faculdade de
Engenharia in 1926. It awards degrees from the licentiate to doctorate, in
several engineering fields, ranging from mechanical engineering to chemical
engineering.
The organization is well-know in portuguese industry and society, and
has reconnaissance in international science and engineering.
Departaments
The Faculty is organized by departments, which have some autonomy and
can be divided in sections, if their dimension or scientific aims recommend
it.
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Informatics Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Industrial Engineering and Management
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Mining Engineering

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 Physics Engineering
ICFP Programming Contest
The ICFP Programming Contest is an international programming competi-
tion held annually since 1998, with results announced at the International
Conference on Functional Programming.
Teams may be of any size and any programming language(s) may be
used. There is also no entry fee. Participants have 72 hours to complete and
submit their entry over the Internet. There is often also a 24-hour lightning
division.
The winners reserve ”bragging rights” to claim that their language is
”the programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers”. As such, one
of the competition’s goals is to showcase the capabilities of the contestants’
favourite programming languages and tools. Previous first prize winners have
used Haskell, Objective Caml, C++ and Cilk.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private university lo-
cated in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college,
containing 32 academic departments,[6] with a strong emphasis on scientific
and technological research. MIT is one of two private land-grant universities
and is also a sea grant and space grant university.
MIT was founded by William Barton Rogers in 1861 in response to the in-
creasing industrialization of the United States. Although based upon German
and French polytechnic models of an institute of technology, MIT’s founding
philosophy of ”learning by doing” made it an early pioneer in the use of lab-
oratory instruction,[7] undergraduate research, and progressive architectural
styles. As a federally funded research and development center during World
War II, MIT scientists developed defense-related technologies that would
later become integral to computers, radar, and inertial guidance. After the
war, MIT’s reputation expanded beyond its core competencies in science and
engineering into the social sciences including economics, linguistics, political
science, and management. MIT’s endowment and annual research expendi-
tures are among the largest of any American university.[8] MIT graduates
and faculty are noted for their technical acumen,[3][9][10] entrepreneurial
vigor,[11][12] and irreverence.[13][14][15]