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As European and Asian countries continue to place better at this competition, there is concern that the United States is falling behind in all areas of technology. Other countries are doing a much better job of educating their children in math and science, while the US does worse and worse in international competition every year.

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• American universities -- once the dominant force in the information technology world -- fell far down the ranks in a widely watched international computer programming contest held this week.
• The University of Illinois tied for 17th place in the world finals of the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest.
• That's the weakest result for the United States in the 29-year history of the competition.
• This year, the contest was held in Shanghai, where a home team, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, won.
• In one problem, contestants were asked to calculate the minimum number of cellular base stations needed for a mobile phone to be moved from one city to another with no loss of reception.
• Another problem challenged contestants to determine how much sunlight a Shanghai apartment management company could promise tenants on April 6, 2005.
• The students were provided information when the sun rises and sets on that date, as well as a drawing of the buildings and apartments.
• Asian and Eastern European schools have been scoring increasingly well in the world championship.
• "After World War II, the U.S. was ahead, as all other countries were recovering from the war," said UC Berkeley computer scientist David Patterson, the association's president.
• Patterson noted that, in many high-scoring countries, governments are in the vanguard of technology research.
• In the 1970s and 1980s, he said, the Defense Department's research arm, DARPA, invested in academic research and supported work in industrial centers such as Xerox PARC and Bell Labs.
• That public/private cooperation helped develop the personal computer and the Internet.
• While the United States slips, China's technology skills are rising, South Korea is the leader in broadband data transmission, and India is becoming the world's programming hub.
• We have too few students entering degree programs in math and science, " said Tracy Koon, director of corporate affairs.

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