For the 9th straight year a team of computer science students advances to the world finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest.
The team came in first among 201 teams at the North Central North America Regional Programming Contest on October 31. They were the only team in the regional contest who provided a correct solution to all ten problems.
The annual computer programming competition draws about 7,000 teams worldwide and is organized in two tiers: a regional contest and the world finals. Only the regional winners are guaranteed a slot in the world finals.
Since UW-Madison started participating nine years ago, Computer Sciences has always had a team advance to the world finals.
This year's teamconsists of first-year graduate students David He and Christopher Hopman, and junior Zef RosnBrick. They will be heading to Harbin, China, for the world championship in February.
For more information including other teams that participated, see the team's website and the UW press release.