ACM International Collegiate Programming

 
Send email to Pedro Guerreiro (pguerr@gmail.com) if organizing local contest to ACM.

Next events: Oct 27th, 2007, 11:00 AM-16:00 - online warm-up contest - http://acm.uva.es/contest/next.php

Do you like solving challenging CS problems and programming? Do you like competing in an international contest organized by prestigious organizations? Then you should consider the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, sponsored by IBM!

The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) is the most prominent international programming competition for university students. Competitors compete in teams of three students, using one computer. They must answer as many algorithmic problems as possible within a five hour period. The contest is divided into two levels: a regional contest (SWERC, the semi-final, in Lisbon, Portugal), followed by a world contest (final). The best teams in the regional contests advance to the world contest.

EPFL can send two teams of three students to the regional contest. To register for the EPFL contest please send an email to alex dot susu at epfl.

The final selection is open to both the participants of the preselection and other individuals and teams. However, the real ACM competitions are based on teams of maximum 3 people. If you register as an individual, we can try to form a team, but there is no guarantee that we have the right number of people to do that. The best way to participate is that you find 2 other teammates and register all the 3 of you with the same team name.

Important future events:

• Oct 27th, 2007, 11:00AM-16:00 - online "warm-up" contest - http://acm.uva.es/contest/next.php
• Dec 08th, 2007, 10:00AM-15:00 - online warm-up contest - http://acm.uva.es/contest/next.php
• November 16-18, 2007 - SWERC 2007, Lisbon - http://ctp.di.fct.unl.pt/SWERC2007/

Past events:

• Oct 20th, 2007, 12:00PM (noon) - "warm-up" contest at EPFL, INF2, in conjunction with the ACM ICPC Regional Contest Warm-up 2007 (http://acm.uva.es/contest/next.php)
• June 2nd, 2007, 13:00 - 18:00: ACM-ICPC contest at EPFL, INF2
• November 17 - 19, 2006: the SWERC2006 regional contest in Lisbon, Portugal for the best two EPFL teams from the Nov 4th, 2006 selection. The registration, travel and accomodation expenses for the two teams was entirely covered by EPFL. Congratulations to the 2 teams from EPFL that obtained bronze medals.
  
  • Problem set here: http://acmicpc-live-archive.uva.es/nuevoportal/region.php?r=sw&year=2006
• November 4th, 2006, 11:00 - 19:30, INF2: SWERC regional team selections at EPFL
• June 10th, 2006 - "warm-up" contest at EPFL

Training sessions

Links

• ICPC: Official ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest website.
• SWERC 2006: South Western Europe Regional ACM Programming Contest 2006.
• Problem Archive: archive with problems from recent years.

    For technical discussions (algo problems) you can register to the mailing list available to absolutely anyone : acm-icpc ATT@ listes DOTT. epfl DOTT. ch. There is also a newsgroup available only to EPFL people epfl.acm_programming_contest , which we actually plan to discontinue.