Even foreign companies are coming to Japan in search of programming talent.

While Wenger is one of the pioneers of the global talent search, he no longer has such an edge and it seems he has been thwarted in his wish to bring in a striker this month.

Although "it was not a great piece of work," he says, the topic was hot and the paper earned Hoffmann a finalist spot in the 1955 Westinghouse Science Talent Search.