ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) is the largest computer programming contest in the world. The ACM ICPC is an activity of the ACM that provides college students with an opportunity to demonstrate and sharpen their problem-solving and computing skills. The contest is considered to be the "Olympics of Computer Programming". The ACM ICPC Asia Regional Contests invite Asian students to meet, establish friendships and promote fair competition in programming.
It is a two tier contest. The world is divided into six regions and Asia is a region. In Asia there are Fifteen sites and Kanpur is one of them. Each site selects one team as winner of the site and will be eligible to participate in the world finals which will be held in April, 2009. The winning team of each site is eligible to participate to the world finals. Winning team may also get travel support from ACM ICPC Kanpur Site sponsors to participate in the world finals. This is the Tenth year that IIT Kanpur will be organizing the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (Asia Region).
A team consists of at most 3 contestants and a coach from the same institution. Generally each team gets 6 to 8 problems to be solved within 5 hours. A team can submit the programs in C, C++ or in JAVA.
Please note that IBM is the global sponsor of the world finals. For more information about ACM ICPC please visit http://acm.baylor.edu.
Team "brute force" from
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior
is the winner of ACM ICPC Asia Region Kanpur site Contest 2008
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ACM ICPC Asia Region Kanpur Site Contest 2008
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