CNU STUDENTS EXCEL IN ACM REGIONAL COMPETITION
News Release - December 3, 2002
contact: Denise Waters
dwaters@cnu.edu
757-594-7331(NEWPORT NEWS, VA) –Two teams of Christopher Newport University students recently competed in the 2002 Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) Mid-Atlantic USA Programming Contest resulting in the best performance ever by a CNU team.
The three-person teams represented CNU among 70 universities within a seven state region. CNU students Chris Sanford, Jack Watson, Nicole Arden, Aaron Koehl, Curt Thomas and Geoff Parsons competed against 144 other teams from the Mid-Atlantic region. One CNU team placed 11th tying with teams from Duke University, University of Virginia, North Carolina State University, and John Hopkins University. A second CNU team placed 23rd.
CNU Professors Dr. John Hardie and Dr. Anton Siochi coached these students in preparation for this competition. CNU hosted 20 participating teams from 10 schools as part of the networked contest held in the Hunter Creech Computer Laboratory on the campus of CNU.
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, sponsored by IBM, is a competition of strategy, logic, and mental endurance. Students are given eight or more complex, real-world problems to solve within a five-hour deadline. Teammates work around a single computer, while being observed by expert judges. The team that submits the most correct solutions with the fewest attempts in the least amount of time is the winner.