UO Eugene Luks Programming Competition
Each year the CIS Department sponsors a programming contest open to all UO students. The contest is a competition among teams to see which team can produce the most working programs to solve a set of problems. Teams are organized into two divisions: graduate division teams consist of two graduate students, and undergraduate division teams consist of three undergraduate students. The members of the winning teams from each year have their names inscribed on a plaque on display at the CIS Department as well as receiving gift certificates for the UO bookstore. The competition is a fun challenge of programming skills and teamwork, and can be good preparation for the UO teams for the ACM Programming Competition.
The contest is named to honor Professor Emeritus Eugene Luks, who organized the first contest and continued the tradition with annual contests. Professor Luks continues to contribute problems and participates in contest judging.
For the contest, teams are given several problems to solve within three hours. Solutions to the problems are programs that accept the input described in the problem statement and produce the output specified. The team that solves the most problems wins, with ties being decided by the time of submission of the team's working solutions, plus time penalties for incorrect submissions. Participants have the use of one computer workstation for each team.
Here are the contest rules.
The Twenty-First Annual UO Eugene Luks Programming Competition was held on April 29, 2017.
There were 13 undergraduate teams and 2 graduate teams competing in the 2017 contest. The same PC^2 software that is used for the ACM contests was used for submitting and scoring our contest - you can view the final contest rankings. The winners were:
- Undergraduate Division
- First Place: Yueqi Zhu (team whoa), 5 problems solved
- Second Place: Ziming Guo, Freddie Wang, Fangzheng Wei (team septica), 4 problems solved
- Third Place: Peter Lovett, Wyatt Reed (team rhoda), 3 problems solved
- Fourth Place: Parsa Bagheri, Talaba Pogrebinsky, Logan Ronlov (team awawa), 3 problems solved
- Graduate Division
- First Place: Raleigh Foster, Luke Mauer (team krava), all 6 problems solved!
- Second Place: Bharath, Shweta (team leonoria), 4 problems solved
Organizers: Anton Matschek, Chris Wilson
Problem Contributors: Daniel Lowd, Gene Luks, Chris Wilson
Judges: Lauradel Collins, Gene Luks, Chris Wilson
Systems Support: Lauradel Collins
Results from previous contests.
Problems and pictures from contests