I was at the contest as well, but not as a contestant.
I agree that Problem F was poorly specified.
The judge's attitude seems to be "deal with it". I would have prefered that they had released a distribution all that contained an updated problem spec.
That being said, some teams, and at least one coach working on the sidelines, got the answer. Remember, it's your job to make the judges happy, not the other way around.
Peter Doege
PS. Were you on the team that I chased out of the contest hall? I was the big red headed guy controlling the contestant doors and doing some of the physical security work. If they had known how polite, friendly, and non-violent I am, they would have never given me that job.:)
Even if you don't place you'll receive job offers. While I was there I was heavily recruited by four companies. Their attitude was "show an interest and I'll hire you on the spot". The starting salaries were about $60k.
IBM rented Universal Studios for the after-contest celebration. They spent a lot of money trying to attract the best and brightest.
UCF's network problems seem to be caused by inept administration and poor maintenance. UCF has had terribly low bandwidth to the outside world for a long time. UCF's problems aren't caused by Napster; they will not go away if Napster is blocked. Peter Doege
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In fact, one team sent several requests, and then flagged down one of the IBM systems people after the contest to complain in detail.
Most teams seem to have noticed that problem F was fishy.
Peter Doege
I agree that Problem F was poorly specified.
The judge's attitude seems to be "deal with it". I would have prefered that they had released a distribution all that contained an updated problem spec.
That being said, some teams, and at least one coach working on the sidelines, got the answer. Remember, it's your job to make the judges happy, not the other way around.
Peter Doege
PS. Were you on the team that I chased out of the contest hall? I was the big red headed guy controlling the contestant doors and doing some of the physical security work. If they had known how polite, friendly, and non-violent I am, they would have never given me that job. :)
IBM rented Universal Studios for the after-contest celebration. They spent a lot of money trying to attract the best and brightest.
Peter Doege
I know I pull about 30MB of data a day. Assuming that 50Million russians are on the net, and they pull 30MB per day...
That's 1,500 Million MB per day. Down one pipe. Into some government building somewhere.
I pity the poor flatfoot that has to read all that :)
Peter Doege
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UCF's network problems seem to be caused by inept administration and poor maintenance. UCF has had terribly low bandwidth to the outside world for a long time. UCF's problems aren't caused by Napster; they will not go away if Napster is blocked. Peter Doege