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March 23, 2009

Judging Data now available

The judging data for the Spring 2009 contest is now available on the contest page.

Posted by Shane Doucette at 10:57 AM |

March 16, 2009

Spring Contest Final Standings

Here are the final standings for the Spring 2009 Contest.

Advanced

  1. Pyro-GX - a team of one consisting of Andy Salisbury.
  2. Krush Y'all's Algorithm - Oliver Schneider, Kristofor Amundson, and Brittany Chan
  3. Uh No! - Xiaohan Zhang, Yosuke Yamamoto, and Gregory Johnston

Novice

  1. Panda Slayers Slayers - Spencer Clark and Thomas Covello
  2. Panda Slayers - Craig Siemens and Calvin Lough

Open

  1. Suckers for Punishment - Robin Dunlop of Vecima Networks and our own post-doc John Backer.
  2. Staff - Sadie Swanson, Guus van de Velde, and CSSS president Diane Holman
  3. Faculty - Michael Horsch and Eric Neufeld

Posted by Shane Doucette at 05:39 PM |

March 14, 2009

2009 Spring Contest a success!

The 2009 Spring Programming Contest was held this afternoon to great success! 7 advanced student teams and 2 novice student teams came out for the day to solve problems, eat pizza, and have fun. We also saw a faculty team (featuring Prolog Gurus Eric and Mike), and a staff team consisting of Guus, Sadie and Diane. Finally, we were pleased to welcome our first ever industry competitor in Robin Dunlop from Vecima Networks.

Thanks go to Point2 for sponsoring the pizza lunch, and to PotashCorp, ESTI, zu.com, and The Department of Computer Science for sponsoring the prizes.

The final standings and full team listings will be posted shortly. In the mean time, the problems from today have been posted at the contest page. Please feel free to have a look and give the problems a try for yourselves!

Posted by Shane Doucette at 07:31 PM |

March 04, 2009

Sponsors for Spring 2009 Contest

We have prizes! Here's the list of our generous prize sponsors:

As well, Point2 is sponsoring the pizza lunch for all competitors.

We thank these organizations for providing us with support for our efforts.

For more information on the contest, see the current contest page.

Posted by Shane Doucette at 09:24 AM |