from the association-for-soylent-machinery-(asm)-international-collegiate-dept-naming-contest dept.
The 2018 World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) culminated today at Peking University in Beijing, China. Three students from Moscow State University earned the title of 2018 World Champions. Teams from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Peking University and The University of Tokyo placed in second, third and fourth places and were recognized with gold medals in the prestigious competition.
ACM ICPC is the premier global programming competition conducted by and for the world's universities. The global competition is conceived, operated and shepherded by ACM, sponsored by IBM, and headquartered at Baylor University. For more than four decades, the competition has raised the aspirations and performance of generations of the world's problem solvers in computing sciences and engineering.
In the competition, teams of three students tackle eight or more complex, real-world problems. The students are given a problem statement, and must create a solution within a looming five-hour time limit. The team that solves the most problems in the fewest attempts in the least cumulative time is declared the winner. This year's World Finals saw 140 teams competing. Now in its 42nd year, ICPC has gathered more than 320,000 students from around the world to compete since its inception.
[...] For full results, to learn more about the ICPC, view historic competition results, or investigate sample problems, please visit https://icpc.baylor.edu.
NOTE: All links to the ICPC site presented here are reduced from what appear to be tracking URLs present in the source article.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @12:40PM (3 children)
I can't understand what "fewest attempts in the least cumulative time" means. I don't think the problem is with me.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 20 2018, @12:52PM
"fastest and with less fuckups"
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DBCubix on Friday April 20 2018, @01:34PM
Teams are assessed a time penalty for incorrect submissions. Therefore it is in a team's best interest to complete the problems correctly, quickly.
(Score: 1) by sorokin on Saturday April 21 2018, @02:37PM
On this competition teams are ranked in the following way
1. Firstly they are ranked by number of problems solved (more is better)
2. If some teams got the same number of problems solved they are ranked by number of point they got (fewer (sic!) is better )
So team should solve are many problems as they could and get as few points as possible.
Points are calculated in the following way:
1. For each solved problem the team gets one point for each minute elapsed since the beginning of tournament (total time 300 minutes).
2. For each solved problem the team gets 20 points for each previously unsuccessful submission of this problem.
For example if you solved 3 problems, the first on the minute 10, the second on the minute 30, the third on the minute 100 with 2 unsuccessful submissions, then your total score is 10 + 30 + 100 + 40 = 180 points.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by bziman on Friday April 20 2018, @01:45PM (4 children)
I got to "compete" in the world finals twenty years ago. My team didn't have a chance, but it was a really fun experience just being there. That year it was sponsored by IBM and I got to meet some of the researchers behind Deep Blue. I may not have won, but competing in programming contests was great preparation for tricky software engineering job interviews, and that has certainly served me well over the years.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Friday April 20 2018, @02:13PM (3 children)
I was also in that. On the team of 4 that won the regional, and went on to the international. We should have done better, had a bad day, but as you say just being there was an experience. The winners got to meet President George H. W. Bush, the rest of us got to watch him walk out of the White House, stop a moment to give everyone a wave, and board his helicopter.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday April 20 2018, @02:17PM (2 children)
I was on a team that won. It must suck being only fourth-best, and not being as smart as I am. The women on all the teams lined up to suck my dick in the hotel later that night while you all were beating your dicks and crying. I even got the fat ugly ones.
(Score: 2, Informative) by DECbot on Friday April 20 2018, @03:26PM (1 child)
If you were a starter on the wining football team, you could have had the cheerleaders. Sucks for you, nerd!
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday April 20 2018, @05:59PM
Sarah Sharp sucked my dick that night. That is all douchebags like me need, hombre.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @02:00PM (3 children)
Ruski don't understand computer.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Friday April 20 2018, @03:55PM (2 children)
Oh, Ruski understand computers. If you listen to MSNBC, the Russians are super-genius hackers who are secretly controlling everything that Americans think about Hillary Clinton, stole emails from Clinton, the DNC, and many top campaign aides, and of course changed the vote totals to ensure Trump won.
And of course in Soviet Russia, computer hack YOU!
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @09:01PM
They never could get close to winning until they started doing the judging online.
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Friday April 20 2018, @11:10PM
They hacked our Energy Grid & interfered with our elections. So I moved very strongly against them. With "sanctions"!!
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday April 20 2018, @10:04PM
My friend Dave Gillespie was on the team.
The teams of three each had to come up with the best solution to a specific example of the traveling salesman problem.
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