2008 Woodie Awards
USA hosted sub-region programming contest
April Kelso
Staff Writer
Issue date: 10/22/07 Section: News
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The University of South Alabama hosted 18 teams from 10 universities at the Association for Computing Machinery Regional Programming Contest Oct. 13.
"The ACM every fall holds a regional programming contest where each region may have multiple for teams of students from colleges and universities meet and battle each other by solving as many interesting programming problems as possible in five hours," Howard Whitston, instructor at the school of computer sciences, said. The winner of each region gets a trip to an international location to compete against all of other regions for "bragging rights and cash awards," Whitston said.
All together, there were 75 teams competing to participate in the International Programming Contest to be held at the University of Alberta, Canada, April 6 -10, 2007.
On USA's team were Timothy Lee, Shannon Clemmons, Bill Bush, Jordan Carr, Jeffrey Wheeler, Adam Brown, Michael Hamarneh and Josh Wheeler.
The universities that participated in the sub-region were Alabama A&M University, Auburn University, Auburn University at Montgomery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Jackson State University, University of North Alabama, Mississippi State University, University of Mississippi, University of West Florida, the and University of South Alabama.
UAB won first and third place, and an Auburn team took second. All three teams completed four problems. The teams were judged by how fast they solved their problems.
USA will again host the sub-region site for the 2008 ACM regional Programming Contest.
The site for the international programming contest is unknown for next year.
"The ACM every fall holds a regional programming contest where each region may have multiple for teams of students from colleges and universities meet and battle each other by solving as many interesting programming problems as possible in five hours," Howard Whitston, instructor at the school of computer sciences, said. The winner of each region gets a trip to an international location to compete against all of other regions for "bragging rights and cash awards," Whitston said.
All together, there were 75 teams competing to participate in the International Programming Contest to be held at the University of Alberta, Canada, April 6 -10, 2007.
On USA's team were Timothy Lee, Shannon Clemmons, Bill Bush, Jordan Carr, Jeffrey Wheeler, Adam Brown, Michael Hamarneh and Josh Wheeler.
The universities that participated in the sub-region were Alabama A&M University, Auburn University, Auburn University at Montgomery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Jackson State University, University of North Alabama, Mississippi State University, University of Mississippi, University of West Florida, the and University of South Alabama.
UAB won first and third place, and an Auburn team took second. All three teams completed four problems. The teams were judged by how fast they solved their problems.
USA will again host the sub-region site for the 2008 ACM regional Programming Contest.
The site for the international programming contest is unknown for next year.
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