LSU, through the Center for Computation and Technology and the Computer Science department, hosted the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) South Central USA Regional Programming Contest on Friday, Oct. 29 and Saturday, Oct. 30.
Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas undergraduates participated in the contest at one of four hosting sites:
1. Baylor University, Waco, TX
2. East Central University, Ada, OK
3. LeTourneau University, Longview, TX
4. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
Together, the four sites hosted 71 teams competing against each other for the top position and a trip to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to participate in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals.
During the competition, teams solved real-world problems through computational programming. The contest was designed to test skills at comprehension, analysis, problem solving, coding, dubbing, resource management, self-control and communication.
“ The experience gained from participating in this event is pivotal to an undergraduate’s academic career. It gives the students an opportunity to write programs outside of the classroom, and to have that one-on-one interaction with faculty and staff members coaching the teams,” said Kathy Traxler, LSU CCT Education Outreach Specialist, and organizer of the ACM ICPC South Central Regional Competition. “This event allows us the opportunity to recruit computer science, mathematics and engineering students for LSU’s graduate programs from the finest programmers in the region,” said Traxler.
The South Central Contest began with a scripting contest on Friday as well as recruiting talks from IBM’s Extreme Blue internship program. The Friday scripting contest was won by University of Oklahoma “Team A” with a total of five problems solved. Forty of the 71 teams participated in the scripting contest.
A 45-minute practice contest kicked off Saturday’s program, followed by the official programming rules and contest problem sets. The winner of the ACM ICPC Programming Contest for the South Central Regional was University of Oklahoma “Team A” with a total of eight (of eight possible) problems solved in 960 minutes (including penalty points).
The overall competition top five were:
1. University of Oklahoma “Team A”
2. University of Texas at Austin “Team 1”
3. Abilene Christian University “Team Purple”
4. Rice University “Team Give a Hoot!”
5. Baylor University “Team 1”.
The top teams in each state were: University of Oklahoma “Team A” for Oklahoma, University of Texas at Austin “Team 1” for Texas; and McNeese University “Team Bazinga” for Louisiana.
More results can be found at: http://acm2010.cct.lsu.edu/results/.
Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas undergraduates participated in the contest at one of four hosting sites:
1. Baylor University, Waco, TX
2. East Central University, Ada, OK
3. LeTourneau University, Longview, TX
4. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
Together, the four sites hosted 71 teams competing against each other for the top position and a trip to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to participate in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals.
During the competition, teams solved real-world problems through computational programming. The contest was designed to test skills at comprehension, analysis, problem solving, coding, dubbing, resource management, self-control and communication.
“ The experience gained from participating in this event is pivotal to an undergraduate’s academic career. It gives the students an opportunity to write programs outside of the classroom, and to have that one-on-one interaction with faculty and staff members coaching the teams,” said Kathy Traxler, LSU CCT Education Outreach Specialist, and organizer of the ACM ICPC South Central Regional Competition. “This event allows us the opportunity to recruit computer science, mathematics and engineering students for LSU’s graduate programs from the finest programmers in the region,” said Traxler.
The South Central Contest began with a scripting contest on Friday as well as recruiting talks from IBM’s Extreme Blue internship program. The Friday scripting contest was won by University of Oklahoma “Team A” with a total of five problems solved. Forty of the 71 teams participated in the scripting contest.
A 45-minute practice contest kicked off Saturday’s program, followed by the official programming rules and contest problem sets. The winner of the ACM ICPC Programming Contest for the South Central Regional was University of Oklahoma “Team A” with a total of eight (of eight possible) problems solved in 960 minutes (including penalty points).
The overall competition top five were:
1. University of Oklahoma “Team A”
2. University of Texas at Austin “Team 1”
3. Abilene Christian University “Team Purple”
4. Rice University “Team Give a Hoot!”
5. Baylor University “Team 1”.
The top teams in each state were: University of Oklahoma “Team A” for Oklahoma, University of Texas at Austin “Team 1” for Texas; and McNeese University “Team Bazinga” for Louisiana.
More results can be found at: http://acm2010.cct.lsu.edu/results/.
Publish Date:
12-09-2010
