UAB CIS finished 1st and 2nd at the AL/MS Subregional in the ACM Southeastern Programming Contest

Updated on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 1:13pm

Two teams representing the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Computer and Information Systems both placed in the top 20 of the U.S. Southeast regional round of the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Contest, sponsored by IBM, on Saturday Nov. 7.

The two UAB teams that participated in this event were the Drakes and Hydras. Among the 78 teams that participated in this year's event, the Drakes made up of students Jeff Frees, Eric Frees and Patrick Butler, finished the regional round in 16th place. Team Hydras, made up of students Yu Chang, Dan Mondy and Robert Cloud, finished in 18th place. The Southeastern Regional round was held at three sites and the Drakes and Hydras were ranked 1st and 2nd at the University of South Alabama Site.This is the second consecutive time that the UAB CIS team has achieve this distinction.

Under the contest rules, teams were given a set of problems to solve with computer programming in a set period of time. The Drakes finished four of the competition problems and the Hydras were able to complete three. Teams were judged on the number of problems solved and how quickly they resolved the problems; the number of unsatisfactory program attempts also factored into the scoring.

More than 7,000 worldwide teams participated in the regional rounds of the 34^th annual competition, with only 100 teams advancing to the World Finals set for February 2010, in Harbin, China.

See complete ACM contest results from the U.S. Southeast region by clicking here.