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From left, Yuly Suvarov, team coach Simanta Mitra, Michael Siebert and Pasha Kazatsker. NEWS RELEASE 11-25-08 Contacts: ISU student computer programming AMES, Iowa – A team of three Iowa State University computer science students placed second among 202 teams in a regional collegiate programming competition and should qualify for the world competition in Sweden in 2009. The team of senior Yuly Suvarov and third-year students Pasha Kazatsker and Michael Siebert finished second in the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) International Collegiate Programming North Central North America Regional competition Nov. 15 in Lincoln, Neb. A total of 202 teams competed at several sites within the region, and the ISU squad of Suvarov, Kazatsker and Siebert was the runner-up in Lincoln and the entire region behind the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. With the second-place finish, the team is hopeful it will qualify for the ACM International Collegiate Programming world finals in Stockholm, Sweden, in spring, according to coach Simanta Mitra, senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science. World finals participants will be announced in December. The competition challenges students to solve real-world computer programming problems under a five-hour deadline. Each team has a single computer as the teammates collaborate to rank the difficulty of the problems, deduce the requirements, design test beds and create software systems that solve the problems. The team that solves the most problems in the fewest attempts in the least cumulative time is declared the winner, said Mitra. Last year Kazatsker and Siebert, both graduates of Johnston High School, were on an ISU team that finished third overall in the North Central region. If they and Suvarov, a West Des Moines Valley High School grad, advance to the world finals, they will have to get past some tough Russian teams to vie for the title. But that may provide some motivation for Kazatsker and Suvarov, who were born in St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia, respectively. Eleven ISU student teams of men and women in computer science, software engineering and computer engineering competed in the regional competition in Nebraska. Three of the other ISU teams finished in the top 10 at the Lincoln site. The team of Connor Schenck, Adrian Jagdeo and Michael Fulker was fifth, Chris Coudron, Tyson Williams and Mike Drob were ninth, and Meibek Safianov, Zhandos Ashivaryev and Megan Brandt placed 10th. “The Department of Computer Science and our department chair, Dr. Carl Chang, are very supportive of our teams,” Mitra said. -30- |
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