Department Hosting Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

The Department of Computer Science will host the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), sponsored by CofC Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IBM, on November 14, 2016.  

ICPC is an annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among the universities of the world.  Teams of three students write computer programs to solve a set of problems in five hours.  The goal is to improve the skills necessary to solve problems with computers.  

The department will host programming teams from the states of MS, AL, GA, SC, and FL as they compete at the Southeast Region (SER) Contest.  The best team represents the region at the world finals on May 15-20, 2016 in Thailand.  

For more information, visit the regional page: http://compsci.cofc.edu/ACM-ICPC.php