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ACM Programming Contest - 11/08/2010
Congrats to the three Clemson teams participating in the Southeast Regional ACM programming contest this past weekend! At the contest site we attended in Savannah, GA, our top team placed 1st among 28 total teams, including strong competitors such as Georgia Tech, 2 of whose 5 teams placed 2nd and 3rd. In the entire region, our top team ranked 8th of 75 teams, placing behind several teams from schools in Florida. This is now the third year in a row where Clemson has placed 1st at our contest site. Our long-term goal is to one day win across the entire region, overcoming our perennial rivals from schools like UCF.
The teams from Clemson are:
Clemson 1: Chris Corsi, Ben Cousins, Brandon Pelfrey
Clemson A: Bryce Richards, Rob Seay, Aditya Sriram
Clemson Alpha: Blake Badders, Adam Hassler, Andrew Ouzts
These folks trained incredibly hard for the event, working through 5 practice contests in the last month, as well as a set of challenging training problems I’ve assembled as part of my evening problem-solving seminar. If you run into any of these students, please congratulate them on a job well done. Thanks also to Chad Waters, who assisted me with the coaching this year.
Best,
-- Brian
Website construction - 11/08/2010
The site is undergoing some necessary modifications. Stay tuned for event dates, news, and pictures coming soon. Also, the newly elected officers are listed on the Members page.
Lan Parties! - 11/04/2010
The last two LAN parties for this semester will be November 13th and December 4th. It will be the same deal as last time: pizza (4$ all-you-can-eat), soda, snacks, and plenty of people to hang out and play with.
Funding - 11/04/2010
We've received funding from Student Government, along with funds we raised from dues and School of Computing Gear, to send three teams to the ACM programming contest this year!
ACM Volunteers - 10/08/2010
Congratulations to Gent Kepuska and Andrew Whisenhunt, who have volunteered to represent our student body in the CES student council. Gent will represent us this semester, and Andrew next semester.
ACM contest - 11/09/2009
The Southeast Regional ACM contest this year was held last Saturday (November 7), with 82 teams from colleges across the southeast competing at three different contest sites. I accompanied 3 Clemson teams to the contest site at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, GA. The team members were:
- Clemson 1:
- Ben Cousins (Undergrad)
- Brandon Pelfrey (Undergrad)
- Chad Waters (Grad)
- Clemson A:
- Adam Hassler (Undergrad)
- Praveen Peri (Grad)
- Robert Seay (Undergrad)
- Clemson Alpha:
- Blake Badders (Undergrad)
- Josiah Hester (Undergrad)
- Raghuveer Mohan (Grad)
Of the 30+ teams at our specific site, the Clemson 1 and Clemson A teams placed first and second. In the entire region (80+ teams), however, these two teams ended up in 10th and 11th, due to a remarkably strong showing from the Florida schools (in particular UCF, whose five teams all placed in the top 10). Ranks 1 through 8 were all teams from Florida schools, with one of the five Georgia Tech teams in 9th.
The contest was 5 hours and consisted of 9 problems. Score are determined first by the number of problems solved, with ties broken according to speed.
Please join me in congratulating our team members for a respectable showing this year, and please encourage these folks to continue their hard work and training for next year's contest!
distinguished speaker announced - 2/2009
Visual effects artist Craig Halperin to give spring ACM 2009 distinguished lecture. Details can be found here