Trinity Programming Team Advances to ACM Regional Finals

The Trinity College (Computer Science) Programming Team took sixth place among 26 teams at the 1999 Northeast Regional Programming Contest, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery. This qualifies the team for the regional finals which are scheduled for Saturday, November 6th at Westfield State College. The top regional teams will go to the International Finals in Orlando, Florida in March.

The members of Trinity's team are (left to right) Jamie Mazur '00, Kelly Ward '00, Scott Susslin '01, and faculty adviser, Prof. Chuck Liang.

Contest Results

The contest consisted of 6 problems in 5 hours. The six teams solving the most problems in the least amount of time advanced to the next round. Each team was composed of up to three contestants. At most one of the contestants could be a first or second year graduate student.

Num Solved  Seconds   Team
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6           30094     MIT
6           56795     Brown University
  
5           36430     Harvard University

4           42220     University of Rhode Island

3           17355     Bridgewater State University
3           33091     Trinity College
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3           39419     UMass Amherst

2           15013     Smith College
2           15551     University Laval
2           19106     WPI
2           19647     University of Maine
2           20515     Northeastern University
2           26098     UMass Lowell

1           7067      Saint Michael's College
1           10521     Bowdoin College
1           14558     Boston College
1           14673     Saint Anselm's College

0                     Daniel Webster College
                      Plymouth State College
                      Providence College
                      Southern Connecticut State University
                      Stonehill College
                      SUNY College at Oneonta                 
                      Wellesley College
                      Western New England College
                      Westfield State College