ACM Programming Contest Results

An anonymous submitter writes: "Shanghai Jiao Tong University has won the 2002 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest with six of nine problems solved. Also solving six problems were MIT (2nd), University of Waterloo (3rd), Tsinghua University (4th), and Stanford University (5th). You can view the problems online, as well as the final standings. Congratulations to all!"

Comments

Re:PDF

[Anonymous Coward]

And why wouldn't you have the ability to read them shit for brains?

Becuase your computer is so fucking antique it has no gui? and don't give me some "i'm reading this from the machine room" crapola either.

If you're trying to make some pathetic jehovas witness style holier than thou free software statement, well, hate to break it to you but there are plenty of free (yes in that kind of free you pecker) pdf readers, so give us a fricken break ok skippy.

Re:MIT is over-rated...

[epiphani]

Close, but not quite specific enough.

Smart american kids with $$$ go to MIT.
Smart canadian kids with $$$ go to UofW.
Smart kids from anywhere without money drop out of highschool and troll slashdot.

Theres a very big difference between booksmart and applied smart.

While im sure all of these participents are very good programmers and incredible mathmeticians, I'm fairly sure a lot of them wouldn't be able to tell you how to take two files on a Unix OS, and list only lines that appear in both in a single commandline.

Note, most of the problems are basically math or physics problems. Sure, if I knew the math, no problem writing the code. But all those problems are simply advanced math. Ask one of these guys wether they prefer poll() to select() on a pre-2.4 linux kernel, and see how they respond.

I was told (in Waterloo, by the way) when I was 17 that I had more applied knowledge of the internet than most UofW university grads that came in to interview for that position. At that point, I was both incredibly disturbed, and incredibly happy. Now I'm just disturbed, considering how much more I have to learn, three years later.

UCF: Daunte Culpepper and regular ACM finalist!

[BitMan]

Not bad, #27. But if you look at the SE US Regional Standings, we look even better! #1, #4 and #7 -- our undergrad teams regularly beat other SE US graduate teams. UCF has represented the SE US at the world finals for most of the competition's history, including they heaftier competition of more recent years.

UCF has never won #1, but they took #2 in 1987 and #4 in 1986 back in the Early Years. In the '90s, we've broken the top 10 at world only once or twice, but we've managed to place in the top 25 regularly.