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November 6, 2004 - IIT Wins Regional ICPC
On Saturday Nov. 6 IIT participated in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/), the Mid-Central Region (http://csc.smsu.edu/~mcpc/). We went to Loyola University. The competition was sponsored by IBM and by ACM. The CS Department (Professor Reingold) sponsored our teams. The IIT-A team, composed of Chris Meyers (CS graduate student), Sterling Stein (CS graduate student), and Hart Wilson (ECE and CS major) had an outstanding result winning the Mid-Central Region, and will go to the World Finals at the the Pudong Shangri-La Hotel, Shanghai, April 3-7, 2005 They solved five problems out of seven edging by time solved U Illinois A and U Chicago Dead Fun. Complete results are at http://csc.smsu.edu/~score/mcpc2004.cgi?view=99. The IIT-B team, composed of undergraduate students Daniel Kroll (ECE), Dmitry Ratnikov (CS), and Daniel Weiss (CS) had a good result solving four problems and finishing in the 19th position out of 108 teams. Next year with training and luck they can win. If you are interested in joining the team next year you may contact Dr. Calinescu (calinesc@iit.edu). Undergrads and first-year graduate student are eligible.
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