Sathe bags bronze medal at 14 Intl Linguistics Olympiad

Aalok Sathe, a student from Pune, won a Bronze medal at the 14th International Linguistics Olympiad (ILO), which concluded here today.
The top three individual scorers included Jaeyeong Yang from Republic of Korea, James Wedgwood from USA and Liam Robert McKnight from UK.
Teams from Sweden, Australia and UK took the top three positions in the team contest, according to a statement issued by Microsoft India.
The ILO, which is for secondary school students, has been holding the event annually since its inception in 2003, thestatement said.
It is one of the 12 international science Olympiads.
Thisyear's global competition was co-organised by MicrosoftResearch India to encourage computational thinking and the study of linguistics among students, it said.

Over 170 students representing 30 countries, including India, USA, Japan, Germany and Singapore among others, gathered to test their minds against the world's toughest puzzles in language and linguistics, the statement said.
Microsoft Research India has been actively engaged in promoting the Linguistic Olympiad in India since 2013.