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Syracuse University iSchool student Bin Sun G’10 places in international IBM mainframe competition

Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) student Bin Sun G’10 won fourth place in IBM Master of the Mainframe competition, sponsored by IBM Academic Initiative System z. The annual competition is designed to familiarize students with concepts for the growing large enterprise computing industry and build mainframe skills, enabling them to become the business and IT leaders of tomorrow.

Sun, a student in the iSchool’s M.S. in information management program, competed against 1,876 students from 315 colleges across the United States and Canada in three-part, increasingly difficult challenges. The competition culminated with a sliding tile puzzle that the students had to solve programmatically using JAVA, C++, REXX, and assembler.

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