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Two CS Student Teams Place in Top 4 of ACM Programming Contest
October 31, 2009
On Halloween, the team of Computer Science students Fei "Bill" Peng, Brian Lindsay, and Jeffrey Truman took 2nd place in the Rocky Mountain regional of the ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest. Competing with 'home-lab' advantage at the regional contest site hosted by the U of A CS department, the trio, playing under the team name "The Irrational Fraction Faction," solved five of the nine problems during the course of the five hour contest. The winning team in the region, from the University of Alberta in Canada, solved seven.
The "Ancient Chinese War Dogs," CS students Silviu Smarandache, Josh Snider, and Jonathan Nation, captured fourth place, solving four of the problems. Five other teams also solved four, but the War Dogs placed fourth on the basis of tie-breakers.
Two other U of A teams competed in the contest. The team of Eric Monzon, Adam Robertson, and Marlene Cota, and the team of William Snavely, Vincent Catalano, and Jude Nelson, both placed in the top 30 teams in the region.
The Alberta team automatically advances to the World Finals, to be
held
in February in Harbin, China. There is a chance that the Irrational
Fraction Faction will be invited to participate as a wild-card team.
This determination has yet to be made.
For more information:
The ACM-ICPC web site: http://cm.baylor.edu/welcome.icpc
The Rocky Mountain Regional page:
http://org.mesastate.edu/acm/rmrc/2009/index.html