Congratulations to the winners of the Nov 2007 FIU-ACM programming competition:

• 1st place: Antoni Alvarez
• 2nd place: George Sante

(Photo taken after the contest--notice how relieved everyone is that the contest is finally over.)

Download the complete problem set with data files used by the judges.

Judges: Jeremy Conn, Mario Consuegra, Hien Nguyen, and Kip Irvine

For more information, contact Mario Consuegra (ACM president): mcons004@fiu.edu

Meet this year's ACM Competition Programming Team:

Friday 2:00 pm -- 5:00 pm, JCCL Lab

Kip Irvine (ACM Faculty Advisor)

Goals:

• Improve student computer problem solving skills
• Practice and refine programming competition strategies
• Train competition teams for the ACM Regional programming competitions

Michael Alonso, Drake Campbell, Jeremy Conn, Mario Consuegra, Christopher Leyva, Charles Russell

• ICPC Regionals web site: http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/Regionals/ .  
• SE Regional 2007 Web site: http://www.cs.fit.edu/~ryan/icpc//ser2007
• Results of the 2006 ACM Southeast Regional competition
• The 2006 contest problems
  

• Article: Teamwork in Programming Contests: 3 * 1 = 4 by Fabian Ernst, Jeroen Moelands, and Seppo Pieterse
• Programming Challenges (book)
• Programming Contest Strategy by Andrew Trotman and Chris Handley