On November 11, three teams from SFU competed in the Regional ACM Programming Competition. 65 teams from universities and colleges in B.C., Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Alaska and Hawaii entered the contest, the top two of which would qualify for the World Finals in Tokyo, Japan.

SFU Red (Adi Himawan, Simon Lo, Nhan Nguyen) had a slow start, but had a surge in the middle of the contest (solving 6 problems in the space of 70 minutes) to join the pack of frontrunners in 7th position. They solved no more problems, however, and ultimately finished 13th, an excellent showing in a tough field dominated by UBC and Stanford.

SFU Blue (Bo Chen, Daryl Van Humbeck, Carrie Wang) and SFU White (Marcel Guzman, Gary Lo, Jean-Francois Eap) started fast out of the gate with 3 problems each, hovering around 15th place for most of the day. SFU Blue finished 6 problems for 20th place; SFU White finished 5 problems for 26th.

Congratulations and back-patting should be conveyed to all participants- they did a fine job this year!

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*** Interested in becoming part of the ACM Programming Teams?

*** E-mail bbart@cs.sfu.ca for information about the mid-spring

*** SFU computing contest!

Brad Bart.

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Coach

ACM Programming Teams

School of Computing Science

Simon Fraser University