Monday, October 26, 2009

Programming Contest Preliminaries


On October 17, 2009, UCSD students competed head-to-head during the Fall 2009 UCSD Programming Contest, pumping out code over the course of five hours.

Top honors and $1000 go to first-year CSE Graduate Student Do-Kyum Kim for solving 4 problems with a combined time of 616 minutes. Sophomore David Michon placed second, also solving 4 problems. Haoxi Fang, Jason Obenberger and Eric Levine rounded out the top 5.

The following are the top finishers:

>> 1 Do-Kyum Kim
>> 2 Dave Michon
>> 3 Haoxi Fang
>> 4 Jason Obenberger
>> 5 Eric Levine
>> 6 James Lintern
>> 7 Eric Slaughter
>> 8 Jeffrey Lu
>> 9 Van Lam
>> 10 Justin Huang
>> 11 Brian McMahon
>> 12 Cassidy Queen
>> 13 Timothy Martin
>> 14 Christopher Rebert
>> 15 David Lluncor
>> 16 Allan Souza
>> 17 Avinash Ananthakrishnan
>> 18 Scott Baar
>> 19 Norberto Salazar
>> 20 Virginia Tice

Thanks go to Mike Dini and The Dini Group for providing the prizes, pizza and soda. Michael Vrable and Michael Taylor ran the contest, with help from undergraduate Jesse Weinstein. UCSD Programming Team Captain Elliott Slaughter and UCSD Programming Team Setup Czar Justin Huang created the score-boarding infrastructure.

The top students will go on to compete in the ACM Southern California
Regionals
on November 7.

More details, and photos, are available at http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/groups/UCSDProgramContest/fa09/results/.

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