Reid Barton,,Remaja Terpintar di Dunia.??

Gara-gara ngomentarin topik matematika dan ngliatin website IMO...Gw agga kaget ajja ngliatin Reid Barton dapet medali emas skaligus nilai sempurna (42 dari 42) di IMO 2001.
Dari dulu,,gw udah sering liat namanya di USACO (USA Computing Olympiad) dan IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics),,tappi stelah ngliat kmampuannya di IMO,,gw jaddi mikir kalo ni ank jenius bgd...Bissa jaddi salah 1 orang terpinter di dunia bwt umur 18 taun...

Di taun 2001 ini,,dia peringkat 1 sdunia di IOI skaligus IMO (NGGA BISA DIBAYANGIN) @_@

IOI 2001 (skor maksimum 600)
GOLD MEDALISTS
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580 USAC01 Barton, Reid
525 ROMC02 Patrascu, Mihai
485 CHNC01 Mao, Ziqing

IMO 2001 (yang dapet skor 42 dari 42 -- sempurna)
Xiao, Liang, China
Zhang, Zhiqiang, China
Barton, Reid, United States of America
Carroll, Gabriel, United States of America


Adda skilas profilnya waktu umur 17 tahun...Jaddi belon tmasuk prestasi di atas waktu dia umur 18 taun....

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Reid Barton

Hello everyone. I'm Reid Barton, 17, from Arlington, MA. This is my
second year at camp. I was on the US team last year and won gold medals at
the BOI, CEOI, and IOI.

I started programming in 6502 assembly language, Basic, and Logo sometime
before kindergarten, when I began programming in Pascal. I switched to C
in third or fourth grade. Since then I have learned C++, Perl, and Lisp.

At the end of eighth grade I started working part-time at the MIT
Laboratory for Computer Science in the Supercomputing Technologies Group,
with Professor Charles Leiserson, the L in Introduction to Algorithms by
CLR. I worked on the Cilkchess parallel chess program, one of the
applications developed in Cilk, a C-based language for programming parallel
supercomputers.

Since August 1999, when Charles took a two-year leave from MIT, I've been
working part-time at Akamai Technologies (http://www.akamai.com), a company
which speeds up internet content delivery. I'm a developer in the
Performance Analysis Group, where recently I've been learning more than I
ever wanted to know about how streaming media works. :)

In addition to computer science, I am also interested in math. I have
competed in various math competitions including the IMO, where I won gold
medals the past three years. Other interests of mine include playing the
piano (12 years) and cello (10 years) and learning foreign languages.

I look forward to seeing all of you at camp. In the meantime, I'll see
some of you at ACSL and ARML (at Penn State). You can talk to me on ICQ
(#9959478) or AIM (MOPReid, for historical reasons).

Regards,
Reid

P.S. I'll be joining former cowmates Percy and John at MIT in the fall,
along with Yuran. Tom and Thuc--where will you be going?

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