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 .)
| Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia. directions; parking and registration: [23] Armstrong Center (6:30-8pm Fri, 9am Sat); schedule |
| Florida Tech in Melbourne, Florida. directions; parking; registration: 2nd floor of Olin (6-9pm Fri, 9-10:30am Sat) |
| University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. directions; |
and
send $40 per person to Florida Tech
by Saturday, 4 October 2008.
Fill out this form and send a check directly to Florida Tech;
do not bring checks or cash to the contest.
Team composition may be changed at the ICPC site until Friday, 17 October 2008,
but changes in shirt sizes cannot be accommodated after the 4th.
Like last year, the contest will be conducted in a GNU/Linux environment. The programs can be submitted in C, C++, Java, Haskell, and Python.
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