Invitation
Dear Colleague:
As an official satellite site of the ACM North Central Regional Programming Contest (http://acm.unl.edu/contest) to be held on Saturday, November 15, 2008, the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL) Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department in a cooperation with NUCIA at the University of Nebraska - Omaha and the Peter Kiewit Institute would like to invite your department to send teams to participate in the contest. We are pleased to be able to provide lodging for non-local teams (two rooms for your first team/coach, one room for each additional team, both Friday and Saturday nights), meals on the day of the contest including a reception in the evening, and optional events. Trophies, plaques, and prizes (in addition to the ACM prizes for regional winners) will be given to the top teams at our site. The contest will be held in our new departmental computer labs in Avery Hall.
Come to Lincoln and experience the excitement of the regional level of an international programming contest. Information on registration can be found at http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/ and http://acm.unl.edu/contest. Contest registration is free! Register online soon! Note there is now a $50 late fee!
If you have questions or would like further information about the ACM Programming Contest, and/or the Computer Science and Engineering Department, please contact one of the following:
| Professor Charles Riedesel Site Coordinator riedesel@cse.unl.edu (402) 472-3486 |
Professor Byrav Ramamurthy Graduate Admissions byrav@cse.unl.edu (402) 472-6747 |
| Professor Dave Swanson Coordinator: Research Computing dswanson@cse.unl.edu (402) 472-5006 |
Professor Lisong Xu Contest Chief Judge xu@cse.unl.edu (402) 472-5004 |
Sincerely,
Charles Riedesel
About UNL and its CSE Department
There are many exciting developments in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Founded in 1968, the Department is initiating multi-million dollar research projects in bioinformatics, software engineering, geospatial information systems, and secure distributed systems. CSE also has special interests in geoinformatics, enterprise and e-commerce systems, middleware, high-level synthesis, design verification, computer and information security, and high-performance modeling.
The CSE Department offers both computer science and computer engineering programs leading to BS, MS, and PhD degrees with nearly 400 undergraduate majors and 100 graduate students. UNL is Nebraska's comprehensive research university with Carnegie I standing and membership in the elite Association of American Universities.
The Kauffman Center, completed in 2001 is a living and learning facility (on the model of British colleges) for the new J.D. Edwards Honors Program in Computer Science and Business, and features state-of-the-art instructional and laboratory facilities. In addition to this beautiful facility, the CSE Department now calls Avery Hall home. The newly renovated building offers an academic elegance like no other. Faculty, staff, and students alike are excited about the learning environment it provides.
The Department has excellent computing and networking facilities to support teaching and research (see http://cse.unl.edu/ for details). As a member of the Internet~2 consortium, UNL provides access to high performance networking. In addition, UNL's Research Computing Facility ( http://rcfinfo.unl.edu ) offers parallel-processing opportunities, and houses PriaireFire, the supercomputer.
The University's attractive 556-acre main campus is located adjacent to Lincoln's downtown business and entertainment center. The nearby University of Nebraska Technology Park, which houses the Technology Development Center and the Center for Excellence in Electronics, facilitates commercial activities related to faculty research. Lincoln has abundant recreational facilities, including many lakes, parks, and bike trails, and a variety of cultural resources, including the Lied Center for the Performing Arts, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, and the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theatre.
About the ACM contest
Each fall for the past 30 plus years, the various ACM regions worldwide hold programming contests. The top teams of these contests advance to the World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
The ACM North Central Region includes Minnesota, Wisconsin, Western Ontario, Manitoba, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas.
Each team of 3 students is presented with several (typically seven or eight) logically and mathematically challenging problems at the start of the contest. They attempt to write programs that correctly solve the problems. The team with the most solutions wins, with total times consumed per solution used to break ties. Languages permitted are C, C++, and Java.
Come to Lincoln and experience the excitement of the regional level of an international programming contest. Visit our beautiful campus and enjoy a tour of our state-of-the-art research and totally rebuilt instructional facilities at the CSE Department and the new Kauffmann Center. Talk to UNL students and professors and enjoy the camaraderie with our other guests.
