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CSE students advance to ACM’s ICPC world finals in Tokyo

December 4, 2006

At a regional competition for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), a CSE team called ‘Dijkstra’ qualified to compete in the 2007 ACM-ICPC World Finals in Tokyo, Japan, March 12-16, 2007.

Team Dijkstra is named after the famous Dutch computer scientist Edsger Wybe Dijkstra and is made up of CSE students Alex Dean, Zi Lin, and Erik Shimshock.

Sponsored by IBM, the regional North Central North American Regional Programming Contest took place on Nov. 11, with the University of Minnesota serving as one of the contest sites. Only 85 regional teams out of more than 6,000 teams worldwide advanced to the finals.

As part of the competition, teams competed against other regional colleges and worked to solve difficult programming problems. Other contest sites hosting competing teams were located in; Canada, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Iowa, northern Michigan, Nebraska, and Kansas. The University’s CSE teams placed 5th, 6th, 18th and 25th out of approximately 180 regional teams.

CSE teaching faculty member Carl Sturtivant served as the CSE team coach, Chuck Swanson as site coordinator, and Chris Dovolis as the head judge, with support from the ACM Student Chapter.

For more information about the competition, visit the ACM-ICPC World Finals.