Competitive Programming
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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is a multitier, team-based, programming competition operating under the auspices of ACM and headquartered at Baylor University. The contest involves a global network of universities hosting regional competitions that advance teams to the ACM-ICPC World Finals. Participation has grown to several tens of thousands of the finest students and faculty in computing disciplines at almost 2,000 universities from over 80 countries on six continents. The contest fosters creativity, teamwork, and innovation in building new software programs, and enables students to test their ability to perform under pressure. Quite simply, it is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world. Official ICPC website
October 2006 - For the first time ever, The Technion or an Israeli team was sent to the ACM-ICPC regionals. The team won a preliminary contest which was held in the Tel-Aviv branch of the Technion due to the "Second Lebanon war" which prevented it from being held in Haifa. The team included Marcelo Taube, Michael Gelfand, and Kolman Vornovitsky. The team took the honorable 30th place in the regional contest in Romania.
October 2007 - The second team to participate in the ACM/ICPC contest. This team, consisting of Gil Cohen, Lior Biran, and Yaron Yoreh, won the local competition and reached the 36th place in Romania.
October 2008 - For the first time, The Technion held a prerequisite course for Competitive Programming. In this course 5 teams competed for being chosen to represent The Technion. The winning team of the local competition was composed of Shahar Papini, Yaniv Sabo, and Carmi Grushko. They took the honarable 17th place in the regional contest in Romania, a lot better than the two previous teams.
