The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) provides college students with opportunities to interact with students from other universities and to sharpen and demonstrate their problem- solving, programming, and teamwork skills. The contest provides a platform for ACM,industry, and academia to encourage and focus public attention on the next generation of computing professionals as they pursue excellence.

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Results of Online Contest

South India Level Contest Winners:
1. CSpirit - Madras Institute of Technology
2. maverick_coders - Madras Institute of Technology.

Visit this link to see the registered teams:
http://icpc.amrita.ac.in/registration/show_regrn.php

The ACM - ICPC 2007 Asia Region Amritapuri Online Contest will be held on:
Date: 11th November 2007, Sunday
Time: 01:00 p.m. and 05:00 p.m. IST.

Duration of the contest: 04 hours

The contest url: http://contest.amrita.ac.in/~mooshak

User ID and Password has been sent to all the coaches who have registered in the Baylor Site.
Please contact Anand Shenoy Mobile No: 09447057140 for user id / password problems.

Please send email icpc@amritapuri.amrita.edu for further queries.

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) is the largest computer programming contest in the world. The ACM ICPC is an activity of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, http://acm.org) that provides college students with an opportunity to demonstrate and sharpen their problem-solvingand computing skills .

ACM-ICPC 2007 is hosted by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, Kerala, India. (http://amritapuri.amrita.edu)

Battle of the Brains
The contest pits teams of three university students against eight or more complex, real-world problems, with a grueling five-hour deadline. Huddled around a single computer, competitors race against the clock in a battle of logic, strategy and mental endurance.
Teammates collaborate to rank the difficulty of the problems, deduce the requirements, design test beds, and build software systems that solve the problems under the intense scrutiny of expert judges.
For a well-versed computer science student, some of the problems require precision only. Others require a knowledge and understanding of advanced algorithms. Still others are simply too hard to solve – except, of course, for the world’s brightest problem-solvers.
Judging is relentlessly strict. The students are given a problem statement – not a requirements document. They are given an example of test data, but they do not have access to the judges’ test data and acceptance criteria. Each incorrect solution submitted is assessed a time penalty. You don’t want to waste your customer’s time when you are dealing with the supreme court of computing. The team that solves the most problems in the fewest attempts in the least cumulative time is declared the
winner.