WAUKESHA – University of Wisconsin-Waukesha student Mike Kasianowicz, Brookfield, was one of six students on UW Colleges’ programming teams competing in the 2002 Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Programming Contest. Working at UW-Stout, his UW Colleges Red team came in 88th out of 156 teams participating in the competition Saturday, November 9.
Sixty-five schools located in two countries fielded teams at 16 regional competition sites of the ACM North Central North American District. All teams received the same material, which was posted on a dedicated Web site.
With up to 3 members, each team could have a maximum of one graduate student and often were packed with juniors and seniors. Faced with 8 problems to solve within 5 hours, teams scored penalty points for incorrect answers and for time spent on a problem. No team completed all 8 problems, although the first-place University of Minnesota and second-place UW-Madison teams finished 7 of them. Many teams were unable to solve any. The freshman-sophomore University of Wisconsin Colleges sent two teams to the competition, each solving one problem.
The ACM International Collegiate Programming contest traces its roots to a competition held at Texas A&M in 1970, which was hosted by the Alpha chapter of the UPE International Computer Science Honor Society. The idea spread to colleges throughout the U.S. and Canada as a way to assist in developing top students in the emerging field of computer science.
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