Lincoln (Neb.) - Nov. 10, 1999 - While the Huskers battle the Wildcats at Memorial Stadium, another contest will be waged a block away. At stake is the North Central Regional computer programming championship.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's chapter of Association of Computing Machinery will host 14 teams from eight colleges in four states. The contest will be held in Ferguson Hall Nov. 13 from 12:30 - 5:30 p.m. Nebraska is one of 12 sites together hosting simultaneous competition for 84 teams. The two top teams from all sites will advance to world competition in March in Orlando.
Teams of three students each will have five hours to study and solve six or more mathematically and logically challenging computer programming problems.
Two teams will compete from NU's Computer Science and Engineering Department: Joshua Brown, Yixin Guo, Chad Hendry and reserve Jeffrey Ifland; and Brian Bayliss, Kar Li, David Svatora and reserve Alan Grow. Brown and Guo were in last year's regional winning team and made a trip to the Netherlands for world competition. Charles Riedesel coaches the teams.
During the contest, regular progress updates will be
posted on the Web at http://cse.unl.edu/contest.
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