Forbes (Dec. 7) – Companies eager to hire software’s best young talent usually congregate at campuses such as MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, Berkeley, CalTech and Stanford. But HackerRank, a Palo Alto, California company that runs giant coding contests, has created an eclectic list of 50 other schools where all-star talent abounds, too. The U.S. had eight schools in the top 50, including Georgia Tech at #13 and Illinois at #14. Also: HackerRank (Dec. 8), Chicago Inno (Dec. 8).
Related story: Parent Herald (Dec. 9) -- HackerRank, a technology company, carried out a University Rankings Competition to determine which of the 126 computer science schools produce the top coders. More than 5,000 individuals participated in HackerRank's competition.The best coders in the U.S. hail from University of California, Berkeley, according to HackerRank's best coding school list. It was followed by the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.