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March 2, 2007
CSE Students Alex Dean, Zi Lin, and Erik Shimshock, along with team coach and teaching faculty member Carl Sturtivant, are preparing to compete in the 2007 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in Tokyo, Japan, March 12-16.
This group of students qualified for a spot in the finals after competing in the North Central North American Regional Programming Contest in November. The team has chosen the name ‘Dijkstra,’ named after the late Dutch computer scientist Edsger Wybe Dijkstra. Only 85 regional teams out of more than 6,000 teams worldwide advanced to the finals.
The competition is sponsored by IBM. Doug Heintzman, Director of Strategy for IBM's Software Group and Sponsorship Executive of the ICPC, said the competition consists of a fun warm-up round focused on gaming logic, followed by a five hour competition with 10 challenging problems. “[Competing] speaks volumes to the skill of the individuals and often to the skill of the faculty and coaches,” Heintzman said. “It’s quite an honor.”
For more information about the team, visit Team Dijkstra.
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