ACM ICPC Results 16
An anonymous submitter writes: "Warsaw University has won the 2003 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest with nine of ten problems solved. Second to fifth place are Moscow State University, St Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics, Comenius University, Tsinghua University. You can view the problems online, as well as the final standings. Congratulations to all!"
No programmers avail. to make an HTML version? (Score:1, Funny)
PDF (.pdf)
Microsoft Word (.doc)
First post, not that it means anything in the dev section (or ever, really).
I'll volunteer... (Score:3, Funny)
... OK, OK, I'll take the heat for this one.
Since two out of the top five are Russian...
In Soviet Russia, nine of ten problems SOLVE YOU!
I'm really, really sorry, but at least it's out of the way! =)
Seriously, though, congrats to all involved. I can barely decypher the damned PDF, let alone the problems within!
Re:I'll volunteer... (Score:1)
Re:I'll volunteer... (Score:1)
From the writeup: "Second to fifth place are Moscow State University, St Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics(...)"
Did you have a point?
University of Kentucky (Score:2)
Sigh. I didn't get to go... I'm just third string...
Go America! (Score:3, Funny)
USA! USA! USA!... oh wait.
I went to internationals last year, it was a blast. IBM knows how to host a programming contest
Re:Go America! (Score:2)
Of course, our university (MSU) got Honorable Mention, which is to say that they were tied for dead last.
I dunno... (Score:2)
Implement a business system with incomplete and changing requirements given insufficient time and resources using the latest buggy, flavour of the month tools, techniques and systems.
Extra points awarded for not turning to drink or going postal.
Re:I dunno... (Score:2)
You have no time to think about the implementation details of your data structures. You've got to know the implementation of all the basic algorithms and data structures by heart - no time to debug your AVL implementation there. Of course you've got to be a fast typist, or at least have one on the team.
These abiliti
have you not read this? (Score:1)
Yeah of course. Have you not read this news story [theonion.com]?
US Performance, Communism? (Score:1)
Why are Russia and China and Poland (Warsaw univ i s Polish) always ahead in world competitions like this one and the Physics/Math Olympiads? Do you see what I see - is there a link with Communism?