Dear All,

We will be starting preparation of the teams for this year's ACM ICPC
Programming contest (for more information about the contest see
below). The regional contest this year is on Saturday November 10,
2012 (http://midatl.radford.edu/), and the World Finals will be in St.
Petersburg, Russia, 30 Jun 2013 - 4 Jul 2013.

The regional contest is distributed across many sites -- we will be
going to the site in Howard University, DC.

Generally we have had great success in the past few years, with one of
our teams winning or qualifying through the regional event, and doing
very well in the World Finals. We are hoping to build upon that this
year, and field at least THREE strong teams for the regional event
(each team consists of three members). Given past years' experience,
we are quite confident that one of our teams will make it to the World
Finals this year as well.

If you are interested in participating please ATTEND our meeting with
the interested students on September 17 (Mon), 3:00pm-4:00pm in A.V
Williams Building, Room 3258. Note that pariticipating (in the worst
case partly) in this session is Mandatory, since we register
interested students during the same session. In the extreme case that
a student cannot attend this meeting but he/she is still interested in
the contest, he/she can send me an EMAIL with SUBJECT: "Absentee
Registration"+your UID, no later than Sep 17 to explain the reasons
that he/she cannot attend the meeting (you do not need to send ANY
email otherwise; just come to the session). We plan to have our UMD
local contest remotely on Sep 23, Sunday, 9am-9pm.

The eligibility criteria can be found at the link below -- most
undergraduate students and first year gradute students would qualify.
Having experience in Informatics Olympiad (IOI) or Mathematical
Olympaid (IMO) can be a plus. Talk to me in the session on Sep 17 in
case of doubt.

http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/regionals/EligibilityDecisionTree.pdf

Best regards,
Mohammad
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ACM ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) is the biggest
programming contest among colleges in the world. In the contest, teams
of 3 try to solve (usually) 8 tasks withing 5 hours. The solutions
are short programs which are submitted to a server where the programs
are compiled and tested against the judges' data. ACM ICPC is a
two-tier contest where teams first compete in regional contests and
then the winners of the regional contests proceed to the World Finals.
Besides being a wonderful opportunity for networking and making new
friendships, the World Finals is an event where "world's finest
university students of the computing sciences and engineering" become
great visibility among top companies of the IT industry such as IBM,
Google, etc.

More information about the contest is available at:
http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/

A live archive with past problems where solutions can be judged is
available at:
http://acmicpc-live-archive.uva.es/nuevoportal/