2005 Apr 22
Waterloo Black, UW's programming team, has won a gold medal in the 29th ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) World Finals held in Shanghai, China on April 3-7, 2005. The team placed fourth overall and first among North American teams from an initial field of more than 4,100 teams from 71 countries. The top spot was awarded to China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University team.
Coached by Prof. Gord Cormack of the School of Computer Science, team members Ralph Furmaniak (second year, Pure Mathematics), Matei Zaharia (second year, Computer Science), and David Narum (a second year Mathematics exchange student from Norway) shared a single computer for five grueling hours, successfully solving seven of ten complex, real world programming problems.
The ACM-ICPC contest is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious competition in the computing sciences and engineering. Waterloo teams have made it to the finals in each of the last 13 years, and placed first in 1994 and 1999. The 2006 ICPC World Finals will held in San Antonio, TX, hosted by Baylor University, and Waterloo Black will be there in force.
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