2004 Nov 07
Waterloo Black and Waterloo Gold took first and second place in today's ACM East Central North American Region Programming Contest.
Black started quickly, solving the first problem in ten minutes. Black swapped the early lead briefly with Gold, but retook the the lead by solving its third problem at the 25-minute mark, and went on to solve all 8 problems in 3 hours, 24 minutes. No other team solved all the problems. Gold was the only team to solve 7 problems. Third and fourth places went to the University of Michigan; fifth and sixth to Carnegie Mellon; seventh and eighth to Toronto.
Waterloo Black will advance to the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in Shanghai, April 2005.
Congratulations to Waterloo Black team members Ralph Furmaniak (Pure Mathematics), Matei Zaharia (Computer Science) and David Narum (Math Exchange), and to Waterloo Gold team members Gordon Chiu (Computer Engineering), Tor Myklebust (Pure Mathematics), and Geir Engdahl (Math Exchange).
Final standings are available on the Web.
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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