NCKU Students Won 2nd Place in National Computer Programming Contest and 4th Place in ACM-ICPC Asia Kaohsiung Regional Contest
Tainan, Taiwan, December 6th, 2010
Five student teams from Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, have won 2nd place, two 3rd place and two honorable mentions at National Computer Programming Contest (NCPC), Ministry of Education, Taiwan, setting the best record of the department, and the team which has won 2nd place has also earned 4th place at ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Asia Kaohsiung Regional Contest.
This specific team has departed to attend the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Asia Malaysia Regional Contest and Vice Dean Chung-Hsien Wu of NCKU College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has praised the outstanding performance of the students and encouraged them to bring more glories to both the College and the University.
In the National Computer Programming Contest, five teams from National Cheng Kung University have emerged among more than one hundred teams and taken away 2nd place, two 3rd place and two honorable mentions.
In addition, recommended by the Ministry of Education, the team which has won 2nd place has participated in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Asia Kaohsiung Regional Contest, beating national universities and other renowned universities, such as Soongsil University, Korea, University of Aizu, Japan, The University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and City University of Hong Kong.
“ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is recognized as the Olympic Games of the computer field. It is organized by Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s first scientific and educational computing society, aiming to provide college students with opportunities to interact with students from other universities and to sharpen and demonstrate their problem-solving, programming, and teamwork skills,” said their supervising teacher Assistant Prof. Tsung-Yi Ho.
Assistant Prof. Tsung-Yi Ho also mentioned, “It is quite difficult to earn awards in the National Computer Programming Contest and the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest because each team has to complete 10 questions or more in 5 hours and each team has only one computer. In addition to solid programming ability, the passing down of experience from a senior classmate and the excellent spirit of teamwork are also key factors to the students’ outstanding performance.”
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) traces its roots to a competition held at Texas A&M University in 1970 hosted by the Alpha Chapter of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor Society (UPE), and it evolved into its present form as a multi-tier competition in 1977, with the first finals held in conjunction with the ACM Computer Science Conference.
It is understood that the ACM-ICPC has grown into a worldwide competition, providing a platform for ACM, industry and academia to encourage and focus public attention on the next generation of computing professionals as they pursue excellence, and its participation has grown enormously from 840 teams from 560 universities in 1997 to 6,700 teams from 1,281 universities in 2007, continuing to increase by 10% to 20% every year.
Five student teams from Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, have won 2nd place, two 3rd place and two honorable mentions at National Computer Programming Contest (NCPC), Ministry of Education, Taiwan, setting the best record of the department, and the team which has won 2nd place has also earned 4th place at ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Asia Kaohsiung Regional Contest.
This specific team has departed to attend the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Asia Malaysia Regional Contest and Vice Dean Chung-Hsien Wu of NCKU College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has praised the outstanding performance of the students and encouraged them to bring more glories to both the College and the University.
In the National Computer Programming Contest, five teams from National Cheng Kung University have emerged among more than one hundred teams and taken away 2nd place, two 3rd place and two honorable mentions.
In addition, recommended by the Ministry of Education, the team which has won 2nd place has participated in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Asia Kaohsiung Regional Contest, beating national universities and other renowned universities, such as Soongsil University, Korea, University of Aizu, Japan, The University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and City University of Hong Kong.
“ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is recognized as the Olympic Games of the computer field. It is organized by Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s first scientific and educational computing society, aiming to provide college students with opportunities to interact with students from other universities and to sharpen and demonstrate their problem-solving, programming, and teamwork skills,” said their supervising teacher Assistant Prof. Tsung-Yi Ho.
Assistant Prof. Tsung-Yi Ho also mentioned, “It is quite difficult to earn awards in the National Computer Programming Contest and the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest because each team has to complete 10 questions or more in 5 hours and each team has only one computer. In addition to solid programming ability, the passing down of experience from a senior classmate and the excellent spirit of teamwork are also key factors to the students’ outstanding performance.”
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) traces its roots to a competition held at Texas A&M University in 1970 hosted by the Alpha Chapter of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor Society (UPE), and it evolved into its present form as a multi-tier competition in 1977, with the first finals held in conjunction with the ACM Computer Science Conference.
It is understood that the ACM-ICPC has grown into a worldwide competition, providing a platform for ACM, industry and academia to encourage and focus public attention on the next generation of computing professionals as they pursue excellence, and its participation has grown enormously from 840 teams from 560 universities in 1997 to 6,700 teams from 1,281 universities in 2007, continuing to increase by 10% to 20% every year.
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