ACM Competition

[Admin Khan]

ACM is sort of like the world cup for Computer Scientists, it's an arena where each school battles to take the crown of algorithms. The most recent results in our region were as follows:



Rank Name Solved Time A B C D E F G H I Total att/solv
Submitted/1st Yes/Total Yes 63/3/49 48/15/34 43/91/17 33/54/24 27/29/9 26/103/5 22/57/15 26/32/19 15/177/3 303/175
1 Princeton 1 (S2) 9 840 1/3 1/15 2/91 1/54 1/83 3/238 1/87 1/32 1/177 12/9
2 Columbia 1 (S3) 9 851 1/4 1/24 1/130 1/87 1/29 2/183 1/62 2/78 1/214 11/9
3 Columbia 2 (S3) 8 907 1/14 1/15 1/167 1/125 3/222 1/103 1/161 1/60 0/-- 10/8
4 Cornell 1 (S3) 8 956 1/6 1/30 2/184 1/130 1/75 0/-- 1/124 1/104 2/263 10/8
5 Stony Brook 1 (S2) 8 976 1/10 1/28 1/163 1/103 2/145 5/238 1/92 2/77 1/-- 15/8
6 Stony Brook 2 (S3) 7 894 2/19 1/27 1/165 1/77 6/199 7/-- 1/235 1/52 0/-- 20/7
7 Yale 2 (S3) 7 1028 1/10 1/70 1/-- 1/256 1/185 1/269 2/132 1/86 0/-- 9/7
8 NYU 2 (S3) 7 1061 1/7 1/71 1/276 1/115 3/268 0/-- 1/85 2/179 0/-- 10/7
9 Princeton 2 (S2) 6 741 1/23 1/20 1/116 1/180 0/-- 4/-- 2/212 1/170 0/-- 11/6
10 Yale 1 (S1) 6 763 2/9 1/25 2/284 1/187 2/-- 0/-- 1/57 1/161 9/-- 19/6
11 NYU 1 (S2) 6 889 1/10 1/226 1/117 1/147 0/-- 0/-- 1/218 1/171 0/-- 6/6
12 Stony Brook 3 (S3) 6 908 1/9 4/189 2/269 1/110 0/-- 0/-- 2/66 1/165 0/-- 11/6
13 Binghamton 1 (S1) 5 660 1/25 1/46 1/228 1/113 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 1/248 0/-- 5/5
14 Princeton 5 (S1) 5 671 2/33 1/53 4/-- 1/173 2/-- 2/-- 3/198 1/154 1/-- 17/5
15 Binghamton 2 (S2) 4 450 2/35 1/38 0/-- 1/-- 1/126 0/-- 1/231 0/-- 0/-- 6/4
16 Polytechnic 1 4 543 1/16 1/50 1/214 1/263 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 4/4
17 Princeton 4 (S1) 4 553 1/18 1/62 0/-- 1/290 0/-- 0/-- 1/183 0/-- 0/-- 4/4
18 Polytechnic 2 4 637 1/13 1/90 0/-- 1/201 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 3/293 0/-- 6/4
19 Polytechnic 3 4 669 1/9 1/131 1/230 1/299 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 4/4
20 NYU 3 (S2) 4 727 1/29 0/-- 1/248 1/228 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 1/222 0/-- 4/4
21 NYU 4 (S2) 3 204 1/14 1/33 0/-- 2/137 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 4/3
22 Princeton 3 3 305 1/12 1/29 2/-- 2/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 1/264 0/-- 7/3
23 Cooper Union 2 (S3) 3 315 1/10 1/75 1/230 0/-- 3/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 6/3
24 Touro 2 (S2) 3 328 1/30 1/61 0/-- 2/217 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 4/3
25 Adelphi 1 (S2) 3 402 1/7 2/81 0/-- 1/294 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 4/3
26 Princeton 6 3 422 1/18 1/136 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 2/248 0/-- 4/3
27 Yale 3 (S3) 3 450 1/10 1/184 4/-- 3/-- 0/-- 0/-- 2/-- 1/256 0/-- 12/3
28 St. Joseph 2 (S2) 3 481 1/28 3/209 0/-- 1/204 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 5/3
29 Cooper Union 1 (S2) 2 106 1/20 1/86 2/-- 0/-- 1/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 5/2
30 Hofstra 1 (S2) 2 123 1/15 1/108 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 2/2
31 Yeshiva 1 (S3) 2 166 1/20 0/-- 1/-- 1/146 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 3/2
32 Kean 1 (S2) 2 171 1/24 1/147 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 2/2
33 Yeshiva 2 2 232 1/33 1/199 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 2/2
34 Manhattan 1 (S2) 2 305 1/14 1/291 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 1/-- 0/-- 3/2
35 Cooper Union 3 (S2) 2 360 1/28 0/-- 4/272 1/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 6/2
36 Kean 2 2 376 1/33 4/283 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 5/2
37 Adelphi 4 (S1) 2 455 3/130 1/285 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 4/2
38 Queens 1 (S2) 1 21 1/21 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 1/1
39 Queens 2 (S2) 1 22 1/22 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 1/1
40 Stevens 1 (S2) 1 25 1/25 2/-- 2/-- 0/-- 0/-- 1/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 6/1
41 Adelphi 3 (S1) 1 27 1/27 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 1/1
42 Touro 1 (S2) 1 35 1/35 1/-- 3/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 5/1
43 Kean 3 (S1) 1 43 1/43 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 1/1
44 Manhattan 2 (S2) 1 50 1/50 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 1/1
45 Iona 1 1 51 1/51 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 1/1
46 St. Peter 1 (S2) 1 85 1/85 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 1/1
47 St. Joseph 1 (S2) 1 116 2/96 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 2/1
48 Adelphi 2 (S1) 1 191 3/151 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 3/1
49 NCC 1 (S1) 1 262 4/202 2/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 6/1
50 Dowling 1 (S2) 0 0 2/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 0/-- 2/0


If you were ever part of the ACM team of your school, share your experience.

http://www.acmgnyr.org/year2011/standings.shtml

[Admin Khan]

I was very disappointed to see Polytechnic University rank so low.

[Talal]

Aha a world cup of 100 dudes duking it out over lines and lines of if ..if else ..if else if..while if else if while if if

Admin khan you won't find many spectators for this world cup :P

[Admin Khan]

Aha a world cup of 100 dudes duking it out over lines and lines of if ..if else ..if else if..while if else if while if if

Admin khan you won't find many spectators for this world cup :P

Talal Bhai,

LOL. It's a lot more than that; and a lot more interesting than applying Fourier series, or learning about DSP theory, or semiconductors. The algorithms, and the thrill associated with it is just amazing. Think about it, you are representing your university, your CS program against others. There is a lot on the line here! For our region, we have the big dogs so it's taken very seriously. MIT, Yale, Princeton, Stony Brook, Columbia, Harvard, Cooper Union, these are the beasts in CS or CSE and so the ACM competition is a worthwhile world cup for us. It's where you apply the skills you've learned in your class room in real life, in hope of bringing home the glory. It's where state schools teach Ivy leagues a lesson, or the reverse, etc etc.


Poor EE's, I hope you realize you better sharpen your programming skills since that's all EE will end up doing in the future, given the decrease in hardware demand. In fact, most EE's I know nowadays end up in the finance industry, or they actually become rag-tag Software Engineers.

Power, or renewable energy might be another field for EEs, but that varies geographically. RF is probably the best field for EE's nowadays. But not most schools offer quality RF courses(given how much the equipment costs). Take CS courses Talal, it's the future given it's explosive demand. I read that Software Engineering(just 1 field of CS)employs more people than all EE's in US and Canada combined.