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UD students excel at computer programming contest

Computer programming team UD Gold—(from left) Parag Mital, Bill Moyers and Rich Seagraves—devise algorithms that won them a plaque as the fastest programmers at the Washington College contest site.
2:51 p.m., Dec. 2, 2003--UD’s computer and information sciences students Rich Seagraves II, AS’04, Parag Kumar Mital, AS’06 and Bill Moyers, AS’04—the UD Gold team—solved its first programming problem in the annual 2003 Mid-Atlantic Association for Computing Machinery Programming Competition in four minutes taking top honors at the Washington College contest site in Chestertown, Md., on Saturday, Nov. 8.

Club 190—Petersen Curt and Ray Wildman, both electrical and computer engineering doctoral students, and David Guralnick, AS ’05—finished its problems quickly enough to take 46th place out of 161 teams.

UD’s two teams ended the contest in 21st and 46th place, competing against 161 teams from 73 schools at nine sites.UD coaches, David Saunders, professor of computer and information sciences, and Benjamin A. Breech, a physics and computer and information sciences doctoral student, were delighted.

Club 190—(from left) David Guralnick, Ray Wildman and Peterson Curt—work out a programming problem at the 2003 Mid-Atlantic Association for Computing Machinery programming competition at Washington College.
“This contest tests an important skill for programmers, namely the rapid prototyping of software,” Saunders said. “The contest problems are illustrative of real world needs. Our teams made us proud with their precision, speed and very respectable placings. We look forward to another great programming contest `season' next fall.”

UD Gold solved its problems so fast that it won over all the teams at the Washington College site and was awarded a plaque. Club 190 out programmed the Penn State and the University of Pennsylvania teams.

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Contest lasts for five hours. Each team of three students tries to solve as many problems as possible, programming the solutions in C++ or Java. The team that solves the most problems correctly wins, with ties broken by the least total time.

Article by Barbara Garrison

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