Northwest is host for ACM programming contest

Computing students from Northwest, Park University and the University of Central Missouri will be on campus Saturday, Nov. 1, for one of 11 Mid-Central Region programming competitions that comprise the opening round of the 33rd annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

Sponsored by IBM and organized by the Association for Computing Machinery, the “battle of the brains” is considered the most prestigious programming contest in the world and attracts the best and brightest programming students from across the globe.

Eleven three-student teams will compete at Northwest Saturday, including six from the University. Each will be challenged to use their programming skills, creativity and business sense to solve complex, real-world problems within five hours.

This year’s ICPC regional competition will include tens of thousands of students from universities in 83 countries on six continents, all vying for a spot at the world finals in Stockholm, Sweden, in April.

In addition to Northwest, the Mid-Central Region includes schools in Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee with 139 teams competing from those states.

To view regional results following Saturday’s contest, go to http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/. Access the competition’s podcast series at battleofthebrains.podbean.com.

Also scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 1, is Computing Visit Day, a recruiting event hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems.

Visiting high school students from across the four-state region will take part in a variety of activities on campus from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The event is designed to expose students to the academic opportunities in computing available at Northwest and will feature hands-on sessions with hardware and software, including robots, developed by Northwest students and faculty.

For more information, please contact:

Anthony Brown,
News Bureau Manager
E-Mail: abrown@nwmissouri.edu
Phone: 660.562.1704
Fax: 660.562.1900

Northwest Missouri State University
219 Administration Building,
800 University Drive
Maryville, MO 64468

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