Canada Day in St. Petersburg, Russia: U of L computer programming team celebrates at prestigious international competition
After months of training and wins at regional competitions, the U of L's Inter-Collegiate Programming Contest team will, this coming weekend, enter the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in St. Petersburg, Russia for the first time.
Consequently, their Canada Day long weekend won’t be spent relaxing or camping in the great outdoors.
They will instead be camped out in a university lecture hall 10 time zones away from home with hundreds of other students, looking to solve challenging computer coding problems.
The international event is hosted by St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO).
Only 120 of the top teams world-wide make it to the World Finals.
The events leading up to, and including, the St. Petersburg events are a grueling series of problem-solving boot camps, competitions and drills designed to enhance the students’ ability to work as a team under relentless pressure, the watchful eyes of the world’s best judges and under extremely strict working conditions.
The team will be on the road from June 27 to July 5.
The competition takes place from June 30 to July 4, 2013.
Team profiles and results will be posted on the ICPC website: http://icpc.baylor.edu/
The group includes Hugh Ramp, 4th year Physics; Dr. Howard Cheng (Mathematics and Computer Science), team coach; Chris Martin, 3rd year Computer Science; and Darcy Best, 2nd year MSc Mathematics.
Additional information on the team (and a group photo) can be found at this website: http://www.uleth.ca/notice/display.html?b=300&s=18670
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First-time undergrad participant Camara Lerner takes 2nd place at international online programming challenge
In addition to sending a team to Russia, Mathematics and Computer Science prof Howard Cheng is developing the next group of programming challenge participants.
In conjunction with the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals, an online programming challenge took place this past week among 14 teams or individuals.
Third-year U of L undergrad student Camara Lerner staged a remarkable comeback to take second place overall in the open category, following the St. Petersburg State University of IT, Mechanics and Optics – the host venue for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals.
She defeated Finland's Aalto University and the University of British Columbia "Purple Puppy' team.
Lerner's 3rd year colleague Kai Fender made it through three rounds, winning against the National Institute of Technology (Warangal, India) and Turkey's Yasar University before falling to the UBC Purple Puppy team.
Details can be found at this website: http://icpc.baylor.edu/Challenge/
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Dr. Howard Cheng, Mathematics and Computer Science
howard.cheng@uleth.ca
NOTE: Email is the best method to contact Dr. Cheng while the team is away.
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U of L Communications and Public Relations Contact:
Bob Cooney, Communications and PR Officer (403) 382-7173
After months of training and wins at regional competitions, the U of L's Inter-Collegiate Programming Contest team will, this coming weekend, enter the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in St. Petersburg, Russia for the first time.
Consequently, their Canada Day long weekend won’t be spent relaxing or camping in the great outdoors.
They will instead be camped out in a university lecture hall 10 time zones away from home with hundreds of other students, looking to solve challenging computer coding problems.
The international event is hosted by St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO).
Only 120 of the top teams world-wide make it to the World Finals.
The events leading up to, and including, the St. Petersburg events are a grueling series of problem-solving boot camps, competitions and drills designed to enhance the students’ ability to work as a team under relentless pressure, the watchful eyes of the world’s best judges and under extremely strict working conditions.
The team will be on the road from June 27 to July 5.
The competition takes place from June 30 to July 4, 2013.
Team profiles and results will be posted on the ICPC website: http://icpc.baylor.edu/
The group includes Hugh Ramp, 4th year Physics; Dr. Howard Cheng (Mathematics and Computer Science), team coach; Chris Martin, 3rd year Computer Science; and Darcy Best, 2nd year MSc Mathematics.
Additional information on the team (and a group photo) can be found at this website: http://www.uleth.ca/notice/display.html?b=300&s=18670
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First-time undergrad participant Camara Lerner takes 2nd place at international online programming challenge
In addition to sending a team to Russia, Mathematics and Computer Science prof Howard Cheng is developing the next group of programming challenge participants.
In conjunction with the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals, an online programming challenge took place this past week among 14 teams or individuals.
Third-year U of L undergrad student Camara Lerner staged a remarkable comeback to take second place overall in the open category, following the St. Petersburg State University of IT, Mechanics and Optics – the host venue for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals.
She defeated Finland's Aalto University and the University of British Columbia "Purple Puppy' team.
Lerner's 3rd year colleague Kai Fender made it through three rounds, winning against the National Institute of Technology (Warangal, India) and Turkey's Yasar University before falling to the UBC Purple Puppy team.
Details can be found at this website: http://icpc.baylor.edu/Challenge/
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Dr. Howard Cheng, Mathematics and Computer Science
howard.cheng@uleth.ca
NOTE: Email is the best method to contact Dr. Cheng while the team is away.
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U of L Communications and Public Relations Contact:
Bob Cooney, Communications and PR Officer (403) 382-7173