{"51943":{"#nid":"51943","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ACM Team Takes on the World in Prague","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia                            Tech\u2019s College of Computing \u201cYellow Jacket\u201d                            team will compete in an all-out \u201cbattle of the                            brains\u201d against the brightest collegiate programmers                            from around the world on March 28 \u2013 April 1, 2004                            in Prague, Czech Republic. The 28th Annual ACM international                            Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) is the most                            prestigious programming competition for the world\u0027s                            universities and colleges. The \u201cYellow Jacket\u201d                            team, includes undergraduates Trayton Otto and Topraj                            Gurung and graduate student Ryan Wilson, along with                            team Coach David Van Brackle, and is one of only 25                            North American teams scheduled to compete in the World                            Finals. The ACM regional competition this past October                            drew tens of thousands of college participants from                            1,412 universities from 75 countries, and only seventy-three                            teams earned a coveted spot on the World Finals roster.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team will face a series of six to eight complex,                            real-world programming challenges, to be completed in                            less than five hours. These grueling problems are designed                            to test not only programming skills, but also creativity                            and teamwork. Huddled around a single computer, competitors                            will race against the clock in a battle of logic, strategy                            and mental endurance. Teammates will collaborate to                            rank the difficulty of the problems, deduce the requirements,                            design test beds and build software systems that solve                            the problems under the intense scrutiny of expert judges.                            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Stay tuned for World Finals results or get                            the latest updates from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/icpc.baylor.edu\/icpc\/Finals\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/icpc.baylor.edu\/icpc\/Finals\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/icpc.baylor.edu\/icpc\/Finals\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           ______________________________\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoEndnoteText\u0022\u003E\u003Csup\u003E1\u003C\/sup\u003E Drawing on resources from across                              IBM and key IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide                              range of services, solutions and technologies that                              enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage                              of the new era of e-business. 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Visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eclipse.org%3chttp\/\/www.eclipse.org\u0022\u003Ewww.eclipse.org\u0026lt;http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;                              to discover more!\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf the \u201cYellow Jackets\u201d solve the most problems correctly in the least\namount of time, they will be international collegiate programming\nchampions and bring the championship back to the U.S. for the first\ntime since 1997.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","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":""}}}