Battle of the Brains

If you’d like to get involved or compete in the fall Regionals contest for next year’s World Finals, visit the “Regionals” section of the ACM-ICPC web site.

You’ll see links for eligibility, how to get involved, hosting a regional and creating a regional.

To help you practice, check out past problem sets on the history page of the web site. Depending on interest over the summer, we may post a few problems on the Battle of the Brains podcast site. So, keep coming back!

Once again, we interviewed Doug Heintzman, IBM’s Sponsorship Executive. He’s been involved with the competition for a number of years. So, he makes a great fit for these updates. As we move ahead in 2008, we may try to sprinkle in a team coach or two or another IBM executive who talk more about a particular aspect of the contest. But Doug will be our main guy.

In the December podcast, Doug offers updates some of the early finalists for the World Finals. He also provided more detail about what the competition works so hard to accomplish, particularly highlighting the use of open source software and offered examples of some of the ‘real world’ problems students are charged with solving.

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In September, we interviewed Doug Heintzman, IBM’s Sponsorship Executive, to discuss this year’s competition and help kick-off the Regionals competition. He provided some good background on IBM’s perspective on the competition and how the company’s philosophy fits with the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest’s goals to help groom the next great innovators.

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Thank you for visiting us! As we continue to expand our podcast series for the ACM-ICPC Contest, we wanted to make sure the information was easily accessible to everyone around the world. In December, we will re-post the September podcast that launched the series and this year’s Regionals. We will also post a new podcast providing some information about how the Regionals started to unfold. With the 2008 World Finals around the corner, we expect to have a new podcast at least once a month. If you have any questions or comments, we always welcome your feedback. For other news and information, please continue to visit the IBM contest page at www.ibm.com/university/acmcontest/ and ACM-ICPC contest page at icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/.  Good luck to all!