{"51342":{"#nid":"51342","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Yellow Jackets Programming Team advances to the ACM-ICPC World Finals","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (gtACM) has advanced to the 2008 ACM-International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals to be held on April 6-10, 2008, at Banff Springs, Alberta, Canada. The programming team has earned a \u0027wildcard\u0027 slot and is one of the top 94 teams out of over 7,000 teams worldwide that have been invited to the world finals.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EInforming the Yellow Jacket programming team coach, David Van Brackle about their decision, ACM-ICPC manager Marsha Poucher commented \u201cthis is a huge honor for you, your team, and your school.\u201d Counting this year, Georgia Tech has been sending teams to the World finals competition four out of the last five years. gtACM had earlier won 2nd place at the 2007 Southeastern Regional ACM Programming Contest held at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, in October this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAbout gtACM\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFounded in 1947, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) promotes and increases knowledge of science, design, development, construction, languages and applications of modern computing. The ACM is the society for computing professionals. The Georgia Tech Student Chapter (GTACM) is the primary student organization for computer science majors. Activities include organized corporate and faculty presentations and other events, which benefit both undergraduate and graduate students. GTACM also provides an avenue for students to develop corporate leadership skills. This year\u2019s International Collegiate Programming Contest is sponsored by IBM and is being hosted by the University of Alberta, celebrating its 100th anniversary.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Student Chapter of the Association for Computing\nMachinery (gtACM) has advanced to the 2008 ACM-International Collegiate\nProgramming Contest World Finals to be held on April 6-10, 2008, at\nBanff Springs, Alberta, Canada. The programming team has earned a\n\u0027wildcard\u0027 slot and is one of the top 94 teams out of over 7,000 teams\nworldwide that have been invited to the world finals.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:43:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:43","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2007-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}