Who The regional contest director is Jim Harris (GSU), the Florida Tech site director is Ryan Stansifer (Florida Tech), the ASU site director is Howard Whitston (ASU), and the chief judge is Laurie White (Mercer).

What The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) sponsors an international programming contest for college students, known as the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) sponsored by IBM. Teams of three students write computer programs to solve a set of problems in five hours. Programming teams from the states of MS, AL, GA, SC, and FL compete at the Southeast Region (SER) Contest; the best team represents the region at the world finals. The goal is to improve the skills necessary to solve problems with computers. (See the ACM ICPC entry at Wikipedia or visit the ICPC official WWW site.)

When/Where
The 2007 ACM Southeast USA regional programming contest will be held Saturday, the 13th of October. The contest is now distributed over several sites: Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, and Florida Tech in Melbourne, Florida. Florida Tech is located near the corner of Babcock Street and University Avenue in Melbourne, Florida. Directions to the university can be found using MapQuest or Google Maps. A campus map is available on the WWW.

Accommodations Hotel accommodations can be found at numerous hotels and motels in the area including some on the beaches. Please make reservations early.

Registration Schools send $40 per person to GSU (not to Florida Tech) and register their teams on-line at the ICPC WWW site by Saturday, 6 October 2007. Please send a check directly to GSU; do not bring checks or cash to Florida Tech. (No need to bring computers; the registration at this site is capped at 30 teams.)

Results
At the appropriate time, a live scoreboard during the contest, the final FIT site results after the contest, the final standings after the contest, the officially posted results, and all the regionals' results from ICPC will be, or are, available.