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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. 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

  2. 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.