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Six (6) computer science and software engineering students from the
University of Victoria (UVic) competed in the ACM International Collegiate
Programming Contest (ICPC) Pacific Northwest regional programming
competition on November 7th, 2009, hosted by the University of British
Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), Canada.

The competition involves teams, each of which has three (3) students,
working together to solve problems with algorithm design and program
implementation over a five-hour period. Time penalties are given to teams
when they give wrong answers to the problems. The team that solves the most
problems in the least amount of time wins. The Pacific Northwest region
consists of teams from universities in BC, Washington State, Oregon, Hawaii,
and northern California. Approximately 80 teams took part in the
competition last Saturday.

UVic's top team, Vikes White, consisting of second-year students John
Hawthorn, Scott Porter, and Dan Sanders finished 4th with seven (7) problems
solved, just behind two teams from Stanford University and the winning team
from UBC. The second UVic team, Vikes Blue, consisting of Tyler Cadigan, Tim
Song, and Tristin Sturgess, finished 22nd with five (5) problems solved.
This is only UVic's second time competing in the regional competition in
recent years. The teams are coached by UVic PhD graduate and postdoctoral
researcher Sean Falconer.

The top teams from all around the world will meet in Harbin, China in
February 2010 to compete in the ACM ICPC World Finals. Only the top two
teams from the Pacific Northwest region automatically move onto the world
finals, however, the Vikes White currently has a chance for a wild card
spot. The decisions about wild card spots should be made by the end of
November after all regional competitions around the world finish.

For UVic ICPC activities, see http://www.csc.uvic.ca/icpc

Also check Sean's Blog at http://seanfalconer.blogspot.com/

uvic vikes white team

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http://www.engr.uvic.ca/news/icpc-2009.php

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bc winter programming contest

Fall 2010 Programming Contests

• Compete with SFU/UBC/UVic students

  • Saturday, September 18 and Sunday, Sept 26
    UVic site: ECS 242 (Linux teaching lab)â€

http://ring.uvic.ca/people/uvic-engineering-students

UVic engineering students

Fri, 12/04/2009 - 00:00
Ringers Faculty of Engineering

UVic engineering students have ranked second among the Canadian teams in the Pacific Northwest regional portion of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest—the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world. There were 13 Canadian and 64 US teams competing in the event. UVic’s top team, Vikes White, finished fourth, behind two teams from Stanford University and the winning team from UBC. The second UVic team finished twenty-second. More info: http://icpc.baylor.edu/.

http://ring.uvic.ca/people/uvic-top-coders

UVic top coders

Fri, 02/25/2011 - 12:46
Maria Lironi Ringers Faculty of Engineering

UVic computer science student Dan Sanders came out on top at the BC Winter Programming Competition hosted by SFU last month. There were 52 teams competing in the three-hour program including high school students from the lower mainland, university students from Alberta, and students from UVic, UBC and SFU. The seven UVic students placed 1, 11, 18, 20, 30, 45 and 52. Sanders came in first place in the entire competition solving all six questions. Jennifer Debroni (computer science) came in 11th place after solving five of the six questions. Scott Porter (computer science) came in 18th place, and Brodie Roberts (computer science) came in at 20th place, both with four problems solved. More info: www.cs.sfu.ca/news/events/ACM/scoreboard/

http://ring.uvic.ca/people/students-tak ... ompetition

Students take third place in coding competition

Mon, 11/07/2011 - 12:44
Ringers Faculty of Engineering

A team of UVic students captured third place among all Canadian teams participating in the IEEE 24-hour coding competition in October. Eleven UVic students from computer science, software engineering and electrical engineering, comprising four teams, competed in the worldwide online challenge, which involved 4,000 IEEE student members competing to solve a set of programming problems using C, C++, Java, or other programming languages. The top UVic team, IslandVikingCoders, completed ten problems. The other UVic teams all completed six problems. More: http://bit.ly/c3jHyG

http://ring.uvic.ca/people/students-amo ... rogrammers

Students among best programmers

Fri, 11/25/2011 - 09:11
Patty Pitts Ringers Faculty of Engineering

Armed only with logic, strategy, mental endurance and a single computer, two UVic math and computer science teams marched into a battle of the brains against 24,000 other students and returned triumphant.

Dan Sanders, Jen Debroni, and Leon Senft placed third, and a second team of Tim Song, Jesse Short-Gershman and Cory Binnersley finished fifteenth in the 2011 Pacific Northwest Regional Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Programming Contest held on Nov. 5. Part of the world’s longest-running and most prestigious programming contest, the ACM regional competition included over 8,000 teams from 2,070 universities and 88 countries.

According to computer science professor Frank Ruskey, “All credit for this epic performance goes to these six students. Unlike other teams, they organized their practices, their travel, and their entry into the contest on their own."

Bright futures are on the horizon for all the competitors. For Dan Sanders and Jen Debroni, the Googleplex beckons; both have received offers from Google, and will be starting their new jobs in Mountain View, CA in the new year.

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Fall 2011 Programming Contests

Compete with SFU/UBC/UVic students*
  Saturday, September 17 or Saturday, Sept 24
  UVic site: ECS 242 (Linux teaching lab)â€