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Amrita students participating in a technical debugging contest conducted by Sun Microsystems "Code for Freedom" (http://codeforfreedom.in) over the past few months have won prizes in all the 4 categories open for competition. The details are published on Sun website. http://in.sun.com/communities/univ/codeforfreedom/winners.html The contest was open to Universities throughout India and Amrita has come on top. Among the total 179 bugs fixed from across India, 105 fixes were from Amrita. In the Grand Prize category, Amrita Students Avinash Joshi and Rishi M Nair have won the prizes. They will receive an Acer laptop from Sun. In the significant contributor category, 16 of the total 26 prize winners are from Amrita. Each winner will receive an I Pod. The students will receive their prizes in an international conference on Open Source technologies scheduled from Feb 27- 29 in Hyderabad. |