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Department Programming Contest

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.

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 broken by the earliest submission of the team's last working solution. Participants have the use of one computer workstation for each team.

This year's contest was the Twelfth Annual UO Programming Competition and was held on February 23, 2008.

There were 6 undergraduate teams and 4 graduate teams, and one high school team competing in the undergraduate division, in the 2008 Twelfth Annual UO Programming Competition. The winners were:

  • Undergraduate Division
    • First Place: Ian Gowen, Jimmy Hastings, Silas Snider
    • Second Place: (tie)
      • Martin Kelly, Halley Vrijmoet, Moor Xu
      • Molly Suver, Anthony Wittig
  • Graduate Division
    • First Place: Peter Boothe, Victor Hanson-Smith
    • Second Place: Jeremy Kauffman, James Sirard

Organizer
Gene Luks
Problem Authors
  • Jim Allen
  • David Atkins
  • Art Farley
  • Aaron Henner
  • Eugene Luks
  • Matt Sottile
Judges
  • David Atkins
  • Paul Block
Systems Support
Paul Block
Sponsorship and Prizes
Microsoft Corporation

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