Carnegie Mellon students excel in ACM programming contest

The IMC’s sponsored Dragons, Carnegie Mellon’s team in the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, tied in 13th place overall among 105 competitors and second among the 18 US teams at the World Finals in Orlando, Florida.

The Dragons – computer science majors Nathaniel Barshay, Tom Conerly and Si Young Oh – were coached by Danny Sleator, professor of computer science, along with Eugene Fink, senior systems scientist, and PhD students Richard Peng and Kevin Waugh. Fink: "Sleator put a lot of work in training the students to solve hard algorithmic problems, which gave our team an edge.” The ACM Programming Contest was held on May 27th till May 31st this year.

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