Note: Last Saturday (11/10/07) while I was still in Xiamen, China, I received an e-mail message from my colleague, Dr. Queena Lee-Chua (my co-teacher at the Mathematics Department of Ateneo de Manila University) informing me that her article about the ACM ICPC Philippines 2007 appeared on that day in her column at the Philippine Daily Inquirer titled Eureka! Queena is a popular author and resource speaker on mathematics education, and a multi-awarded professor. Her column at the Philippine Daily Inquirer appears every Saturday.
Source:
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view_article.php?article_id=100048
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EUREKA!
UP Diliman national computing champ
Inquirer
Last updated 02:20am (Mla time) 11/10/2007
MANILA, Philippines—Fifty teams from 24 schools competed for the top spot in the Association for Computing Machinery-First Philippine National Inter-Collegiate Programming Competition (ACM ICPC Philippines 2007) held last Oct. 20 at the De La Salle University Canlubang Campus in Laguna.
Organized by the Computing Society of the Philippines, in cooperation with ACM, the event aims to provide college students the chance to sharpen and demonstrate their problem solving, programming and teamwork skills. The contest provides a platform for ACM, industry and academe to encourage and focus public attention on the youth as they pursue excellence in computing.
Each competing team consisted of three students. During the contest, each of team tried to outsmart each other by using a computer to solve six problems in three hours. The team with the most number of problems solved at the fastest time won the competition. The problems ranged from easy to complex, and included computer science topics such as data structures, combinatorics, graph algorithms and computational methods.
Winners
Marte Raphael Soliza, Ralph Rainier Pineda and Reginald Eli Deinla of Team UP Fighting Maroons from the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman emerged champion. They were coached by Eric R. Tambasacan and Pablo Manalastas. They are able to solve five problems in 365 minutes, the only team which was able to solve more than three problems.
The second to seventh placers were able to solve three problems, and their rankings were determined by how fast it took them to do so.
In second place was Team cxxC from the Ateneo de Manila University (Admu). James Choa, Wilhansen Li and John Patrick Manalo were coached by Pablo Manalastas, Jal de Vera, Ramon Akie Mejiea, Eric Vidal Tan and John Paul Vergara. The team solved the problems in 148 minutes.
Team Heaven from UP Los Baños, composed of Jeremiah Pascual, Reinald Pugoy and Maverick Crisostomo, came in third. Rainier Alexis L. Rapera was the coach, and the students solved the problems in 151 minutes.
In fourth place was Team Automata from Admu. Ivan John Clement, Jason Christian Gaguan and Maria Clarisse Ligunas solved the problems in 196 minutes.
Ralph Justin Arce, Vanessa Rose Castro and James Wyson, of Team 43 from UP Diliman solved the problems in 234 minutes. They ranked fifth.
Team DLSU-2 from De La Salle University Manila ranked sixth. Brian Paul Samson, Christian Valeen Chiu and Jeric Bryle Dy, coached by Danniel Alcantara, solved the problems in 291 minutes.
Another Admu team, Excessive Output, emerged seventh. Jejomar Alexis Dimayuga, Thomas Dy and Danna Songco Aduna solved the problems in 355 minutes.
In December, the top teams will be given financial assistance to participate in the regional contest in Singapore, where they will have the chance to compete in the ACM-ICPC World Finals in Canada in April 2008. Here prizes, scholarships, and bragging rights will be at stake for some of the world’s finest university students of the computing sciences and engineering.
Rafael Saldaña from Admu chaired the board of judges. Other judges were Henry Adorna and Jaime Caro of UP Diliman, Eliezer Albacea of UP Los Baños, Caslon Chua and Nelson Marcos from DLSU Manila, and Raymond Todd Melton of Admu.
For more information, e-mail ACM-ICPC Philippines 2007 at computingsoc@gmail.com. Visit the contest website http://icpc2007manila.blogspot.com/ or Saldaña's blog http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com/
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