Blue-and-Gold Computing

Two teams from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering were among the 116 teams from 64 colleges and universities in the East Central North American Region that participated in the 2006 Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest in November.

Each year participants are challenged to solve eight complex problems. The team that solves the most problems in the fewest attempts, and the least amount of time, is the winner.

Irish Blue — senior Jeffrey Smith, junior Daniel Dugovic, and freshman Christopher Fallin — completed five of the problems. Smith and Dugovic, who were also on the team last year, repeated their ninth place finish.

Junior Nicholas Schott, freshman Joseph Schmitt, and freshman Eric Riedl — Irish Gold — placed 36th. Last year the Irish Gold team — Ben Keller, a junior studying electrical engineering, and Pavan Sadarangani, a junior in computer science and engineering — placed 56th.

The East Central region includes universities from Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, western Pennsylvania, and eastern Ontario. Ray Sepeta, academic adviser for the University’s First Year of Studies Program, served as the adviser for both teams.