Holy Cross Co-Hosted International Programming Contest

Holy Cross co-hosted the Boston Preliminary Round for the Northeastern Region of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest on Saturday, Oct. 13. Sponsored by ACM and IBM, co-hosts were Harvard University and Boston College. Thousands of teams representing over 100,000 college students at over 1,000 colleges and universities worldwide compete in this annual challenge.

At Holy Cross, 15 teams competed to solve seven programming problems under time pressure. The competition was a cooperative effort with Boston College and Holy Cross hosting the teams and Harvard providing judging. The top four teams in this round were from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Brown University and Middlebury College.

These winners will go on to compete in regional contests, and may eventually go on to the international competition, to be held this year in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Holy Cross' team consisted of Tim Hattori '03, Laura Picone '03 and Tom Ziniti '04.

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