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ACM ICPC Results 16

Posted by michael from the gold-star dept.
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!"
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  • No programmers avail. to make an HTML version? (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Available Formats:

    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)

    by breon.halling ( 235909 ) on Wednesday March 26, 2003 @02:00AM (#5596315)

    ... 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!

  • I'd like to congratulate my teammates from the University of Kentucky for making a fine showing at Worlds this year! Great job guys!

    Sigh. I didn't get to go... I'm just third string...

  • Go America! (Score:3, Funny)

    by moertle ( 140345 ) on Wednesday March 26, 2003 @02:57AM (#5596518) Homepage

    USA! USA! USA!... oh wait.

    I went to internationals last year, it was a blast. IBM knows how to host a programming contest :)
    • Yes, it is worth noting that the first US universities on the list are two of eight tied at #13 (UC-Berkeley and CalTech).

      Of course, our university (MSU) got Honorable Mention, which is to say that they were tied for dead last. :P
  • They look like maths problems to me. Here's a programming problem:

    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.
    • Yes, they are maths (algorithmics) problems. But algorithmic background isn't enough to win this contest. You have to implement the algorithm you came up with and you have to implement it fast.

      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

  • I noticed that the US performance is not as good as it has been in the past. In the past, US got atleast 2-3 teams into the top 10. But this year not even one was in the top 10, though there were 5 in 11-21 ranks.

    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?

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