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Computing Team Finishes Among Top Competitors
This fall, the College's first computer programming team competed in the 25th International Collegiate Programming Contest sponsored by the Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) and IBM. Vying with 137 teams from the Mid-Atlantic region, Washington College finished 38th, tying with several schools including Duke University, University of North Carolina and University of Delaware.
More than 2,000 teams worldwide participated in thirty regional competitions of the ACM's International Collegiate Programming Contest. During the five-hour competition, teams had to design various programs, such as a word processing grammar check and an airplane collision detection system. The contest provides college students with an opportunity to demonstrate and sharpen problem-solving and computing skills in a competitive, time-sensitive environment.
Austin Lobo, assistant professor in mathematics and computer science, is the team's faculty adviser. "Although this is the first year Washington College has offered a computer science major," he says, "our students have emerged as motivated and knowledgeable, and our best and brightest are able to compete with peers from the top schools in the field."
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