UC San Diego computer science students took 2nd and 5th at last weekend's ACM Southern California Regional Programming Contest.
The UCSD computer scientists made up 4 of the 63 teams and faced off against teams from schools like CalTech, Harvey Mudd, USC, UCLA, UCSB, UNLV, and UCI.
“We did extremely well. We placed second and fifth. UCSD was the only school to have two teams place in the top five,” said Michael Taylor, the UCSD computer science professor who served as the 2007 ACM Programming Team Faculty Coordinator.
A team from Caltech took first place. The results are available here and a whole bunch of pictures are posted here.
UCSD’s team “Canada” took second place.
Members below:
Aaron Barany (Aaron created the "underwater statue" image about half way down the page)
Timothy Bollman
Keliang Zhao
UCSD’s team “Paper” took fifth place.
Members below:
Andrew Chain
Eli Friedman
Kei Shun Ma
The other two UCSD teams:
Iman Sadeghi
Taurin Tan-atichat
James Whiteside
Erik Buchanan
Rene Claus
Elliott Slaughter
Professor Taylor thanks this year's student coaches: Michael Vrable, William Matthews, Nakul Verma, and Md. Kamruzzaman as well as UCSD’s sponsor, Mike Dini of the Dini Group.
Here is a fun link from Professor Taylor’s Web site. It’s a self-maintaining directory of people named Michael Taylor.
“We did extremely well. We placed second and fifth. UCSD was the only school to have two teams place in the top five,” said Michael Taylor, the UCSD computer science professor who served as the 2007 ACM Programming Team Faculty Coordinator.
A team from Caltech took first place. The results are available here and a whole bunch of pictures are posted here.
UCSD’s team “Canada” took second place.
Members below:
Aaron Barany (Aaron created the "underwater statue" image about half way down the page)
Timothy Bollman
Keliang Zhao
UCSD’s team “Paper” took fifth place.
Members below:
Andrew Chain
Eli Friedman
Kei Shun Ma
The other two UCSD teams:
Iman Sadeghi
Taurin Tan-atichat
James Whiteside
Erik Buchanan
Rene Claus
Elliott Slaughter
Professor Taylor thanks this year's student coaches: Michael Vrable, William Matthews, Nakul Verma, and Md. Kamruzzaman as well as UCSD’s sponsor, Mike Dini of the Dini Group.
Here is a fun link from Professor Taylor’s Web site. It’s a self-maintaining directory of people named Michael Taylor.
