UVic Places Second In Computer Programming Contest

University of Victoria engineering students have ranked second among the Canadian teams in the Pacific Northwest regional portion of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest— the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world.
         There were 13 Canadian and 64 US teams competing in the event. UVic's top team, Vikes White, finished fourth behind two teams from Stanford University and the winning team from UBC. The second UVic team finished twenty-second.
         The contest involves a global network of universities hosting regional competitions that advance teams to the ACM-ICPC world finals in China in February 2010. Participation has grown to tens of thousands of the finest students and faculty in computing disciplines at almost 2,000 universities from over 80 countries on six continents. The contest fosters creativity, teamwork, and innovation in building new software programs and enables students to test their ability to perform under pressure. For more information about the competition, visit http://icpc.baylor.edu/.
 

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