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ACM Programming Contest Results

Posted by michael on from the brain-drain dept.

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!"

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  1. pdf to html by mpjetta · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those who are unable to view PDFs.

    Here is the problems PDF in text format

  2. Re:Slashdotted already by lars · · Score: 4, Informative

    Waterloo had some problems with D. Their first submission was about halfway in, but was judged incorrect. They had 2-3 hours to fix it but never did figure out what was wrong, which is probably just bad luck. If they time spent on D had been used to do another problem, they would have saved a lot of penalty minutes too (of course, it's easy to say that after the fact).

    The 3rd place finish is still very impressive, all things considered. Waterloo has now solved the same number of problems as the winning team (for which they now award the "gold medal") for an unprecedented 7 years, I believe, even though participation in the contest has more than tripled in that time and the competition is stiffer than ever.

  3. Re:MIT is over-rated... by paulschreiber · · Score: 5, Informative
    oh, whatever. waterloo is a public university (think state school). while it's more expensive than Simon Fraser (damned deregulated tuition), it's almost an order of magnitude cheaper than MIT when you factor in the weak Canadian dollar.

    UW CS tution is about CAD$5400/year. MIT tuition is about US$26,000 (CAD $40,000) per year.

    Paul

  4. compete against some of the winners at TopCoder by BigOneBitey · · Score: 5, Informative

    Many of the ACM competitors from English speaking countries compete weekly at TopCoder.

    College students and professionals alike compete against each other to solve 3-problem sets within 75 minutes (choice of C++ or Java or C#).

    Under 18 are allowed to compete as well, but not eligible for prizes.