We thought this may be of interest to our members. Would you like to put together a team? -----Original Message----- From: Dr Sabin Tabirca [mailto:tabirca@cs.ucc.ie] Sent: 12 February 2010 16:15 To: David.Abrahamson@scss.tcd.ie; Mike.Scott@computing.dcu.ie; gerard.lyons@nuigalway.ie; joe.carthy@ucd.ie; annette.mcelligott@ul.ie; adamw@cs.nuim.ie; eecs-hos@qub.ac.uk Subject: First Irish Collegiate Programming Competition - IrlCPC Importance: High Dear Head of School/Department, We will be very grateful to you if you can forward this email to your school/dept's students. This is a call for participation to the first Irish Collegiate Programming Competition for teams of students. I hope you can encourage some good students from your undergraduate degrees to participate into. Best Regards, Sabin, Barry and Anne ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear Student, This email is to invite student teams from the Irish Universities and Institutes of Technologies to participate to the first Irish Collegiate Programming Contest. There is no limit for the number of teams from the same institution. The competition requires the students to have knowledge of algorithms, good programming skills and abilities for problem solving. Irish Collegiate Programming Contest (IrlCPC) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The UCC ACM Student Chapter and the Department of Computer Science, University College Cork are hosting the 1st annual Irish Collegiate Programming Contest (IrlCPC) on the 17th of April 2010. Rules ~~~~~ The IrlCPC competition is based on teams of 3 students and a coach, all from the same third level institutions. The students must all be registered on undergraduate degrees, while the coach can be either a full time researcher or member of academic staff. The team will have only one computer to solve a set of 10 problems within 4 hours. The difficulty of the problems will vary from simple (course work level) to challenging (ACM competition level). No internet connection is allowed to the teams. The teams may use any programming language they like, however Java and C/C++ are favoured. Each problem will be tested against several data input tests and will receive up to 100 points. The team that scores the highest number of points will win the IrlCPC competition. Registration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Online team registration must take place before Friday 19th of March 2010. Online registration will open shortly available at http://acm.ucc.ie/irlcpc/registration. The registration requires to each team to provide the names of the 3 students and the name of the coach. A registration fee of 50 euro is also required for each team which is payable during the competition day. Competition Day Program (17/04/10) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The most likely program for the competition day will be as follows: 09.30 - 10.00 Registration and welcoming of the participants 10.00 - 14.00 Competition and internal meetings for coaches 14.00 - 15.00 Break 15.00 - 16.00 Problem Solving Discussions 16.00 - 17.00 Final Conclusions Important Links + Emails ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The IrlCPC contest page http://acm.ucc.ie/irlcpc/ The IrlCPC registration page http://acm.ucc.ie/irlcpc/registration University College Cork page http://www.ucc.ie Computer Science Dept @ UCC page http://www.cs.ucc.ie Organiser Emails: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anne Magner, Chair of UCC ACM Student Chapter, annemagner@acm.org Dr Barry O'Sullivan, Computer Science Dept, b.osullivan@cs.ucc.ie Dr Sabin Tabirca, Computer Science Dept, tabirca@cs.ucc.ie _________________________________________________ Dr Sabin Tabirca, Senior Lecturer National University of Ireland, Cork Dept of Computer Science, Western Gateway Building College Road, Cork, Ireland +353 21 420 5915 http://www.cs.ucc.ie/~stabirca _________________________________________________