ACM Programming Collegiate Programming Contest Wraps Up

Congratulations to the winners and participants of this year's ACM Collegiate Programming Contest. Competing this year were more than 80 teams from universities around the world who were given five hours to solve 10 problems. Among the problems to solve were those that included writing a program that figures out how gears of a clock can be connected under certain conditions, writing a program that finds the maximun degrees of separation for a network of individuals, and create an interconnected system of nodes in the least expensive way.

The results placed Russia's Saratov State University as the winner, followed by Altai State Technical University, the University of Twente in the Netherlands, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Warsaw University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology came in 7th, the University of Waterloo 9th, and my alma mater (drum roll please) the University of Alberta 11th.

The first-place prize is a $10,000 scholarship for each team member, along with computer equipment from IBM , the main sponsor of the event.

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