U of L's Inter-Collegiate Programming Contest team will return from the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in St. Petersburg, Russia with several notable achievements for their first-ever international competition.
The team, made up of Hugh Ramp, 4th year Physics; Chris Martin, 3rd year Computer Science; Darcy Best, 2nd year MSc Mathematics; and coaches Dr. Howard Cheng (Mathematics and Computer Science) and Dr. Kevin Grant (Mathematics and Computer Science) took a 4th place spot in an open challenge competition where they had to code their way out of a video game problem – and avoid being eaten by digital zombies in the process.
Their win was chronicled on the ITBusiness News website and the ITWorld Canada website:
http://www.itbusiness.ca/news/alberta-students-scoop-fourth-place-in-international-ai-programming-challenge/37384
http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/alberta-students-4th-in-ai-programming-contest/147325
In a similar online challenge at the end of June, first-time contestant Camara Lerner claimed a second place finish among 14 teams, while teammate Kai Fender made it through three rounds of problem-solving challenges. http://www.uleth.ca/notice/display.html?b=300&s=19610
As well, the team placed 3rd among the Canadian competitors, 12th out of 23 North American teams and 80 of all 120 teams entered in the contest, which was hosted by St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO).
Complete results are available here: http://static.kattis.com/icpc/wf2013/
The team will return to Lethbridge July 6.
Additional information on the team can be found at this website: http://www.uleth.ca/notice/display.html?b=300&s=18670
Additional information about the competition can be found at this website: http://icpc.baylor.edu/
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U of L Communications and Public Relations Contact:
Bob Cooney, Communications and PR Officer (403) 382-7173
The team, made up of Hugh Ramp, 4th year Physics; Chris Martin, 3rd year Computer Science; Darcy Best, 2nd year MSc Mathematics; and coaches Dr. Howard Cheng (Mathematics and Computer Science) and Dr. Kevin Grant (Mathematics and Computer Science) took a 4th place spot in an open challenge competition where they had to code their way out of a video game problem – and avoid being eaten by digital zombies in the process.
Their win was chronicled on the ITBusiness News website and the ITWorld Canada website:
http://www.itbusiness.ca/news/alberta-students-scoop-fourth-place-in-international-ai-programming-challenge/37384
http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/alberta-students-4th-in-ai-programming-contest/147325
In a similar online challenge at the end of June, first-time contestant Camara Lerner claimed a second place finish among 14 teams, while teammate Kai Fender made it through three rounds of problem-solving challenges. http://www.uleth.ca/notice/display.html?b=300&s=19610
As well, the team placed 3rd among the Canadian competitors, 12th out of 23 North American teams and 80 of all 120 teams entered in the contest, which was hosted by St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO).
Complete results are available here: http://static.kattis.com/icpc/wf2013/
The team will return to Lethbridge July 6.
Additional information on the team can be found at this website: http://www.uleth.ca/notice/display.html?b=300&s=18670
Additional information about the competition can be found at this website: http://icpc.baylor.edu/
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U of L Communications and Public Relations Contact:
Bob Cooney, Communications and PR Officer (403) 382-7173