CSE students prepare for ACM's ICPC world finals in Tokyo
by Robyn White
CSE students Alex Dean, Zi Lin, and Erik Shimshock are preparing to compete in the 2007 ACM International Collegiate
Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in Tokyo, Japan, March 12-16, 2007.
The CSE team traveling to Tokyo has chosen the team name 'Dijkstra,' named after the famous Dutch computer scientist
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra. CSE teaching faculty member Carl Sturtivant is the team coach and will accompany the team
to Tokyo.
This group of students qualified for a spot in the finals after competing in the regional North Central North American
Regional Programming Contest that took place on Nov. 11 at the University of Minnesota. Only 85 regional teams
out of more than 6,000 teams worldwide advanced to the finals.
As part of the regional competition, sponsored by IBM, teams competed against other regional colleges and worked
to solve difficult programming problems. Numerous other Midwest colleges also served as contest sites. The University's
CSE teams placed 5th, 6th, 18th and 25th out of approximately 180 regional teams. CSE teaching faculty members
Chuck Swanson and Chris Dovolis served as the site coordinator and head judge respectively, with support from the
ACM Student Chapter.
For more information about the competition, visit the ACM-ICPC
World Finals http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/
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