March 15: Vietnam competes with CUP for the global programming of ACM / ICPC

Chicken team Technological University Hanoi National University will compete with the best teams from 88 prestigious universities in the world in the ACM / ICPC Global Finals in Tokyo Japan on 15 / 3/2007.

Chicken team consists of 3 fourth year students: Tran Thi Thuy Trang, Phan Da Phuc and Le Huy Binh led by Dr. Bui The Duy as coach.

ACM / ICPC Global Finals from 12-16 March 2007 in Tokyo, Japan: 88 teams will exchange, train and prepare on 12, 13 and 14 March. 264 excellent students representing young IT students from all continents will officially compete in the final of the 31st ACM / ICPC International Student Programming Contest in 2006 from 8:00 to 13:30 (Tokyo time) ) at Tokyo Hilton Bay Hotel in Japan to compete in the top 12 positions: 1 champion CUP, 3 First prizes, 4 Second prizes and 4 Third prizes.

ACM Chicken team, VNU University of Technology-Hanoi.

The high rankings in the ACM / ICPC Final rankings will be an honor for any IT training university in the world.

During the official competition of the 5-hour Finals, the teams had to solve the most out of the 10 exam questions that the Board had chosen, each of which would represent other practical application algorithms. . To overcome these challenges, each team (consisting of 3 students) will have to best promote the ability to coordinate teammates to accurately determine the requirements of the lesson, plan to handle and use a problem-solving software programming language.

Each team used one IBM ThinkPad 60p with Intel Core Duo Processor T7400 (2.16Ghz), 2048 Mbytes RAM, 100 GBytes SATA Hard Disk. The software includes: Fedora Core 4 Linux operating system, Java programming language (version 1.5) or C / C ++ (GCC 4.0). Connect to submit articles and mark online by PC2 Contest Control System, Version 8 (used at the Hanoi 11/2006 qualifier).

" This is not just a pure competition of coding skills of teams but a talent for thinking, identifying solutions to practical problems, with teamwork, clearly assigning tasks, so that each team becomes a smooth operational machine, conquering mathematical and physical challenges associated with reality , 'said Dough Heintzman, a member of the ACM / ICPC organizing committee. brief about the competition.

The team with the most number of assignments during the time will be awarded the trophy. At the same time, the ranking of the top 12 teams is divided into three groups: the first 4 places to receive the gold medal, the 4 teams following the silver medal and the 4 teams then win the bronze medal. The team from any continent with the highest rank in the final table will be awarded the title of continent. Full global ranking and results will be released on March 15, 2007 at http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/finals/default.htm.

It was difficult to reach the final round when Vietnamese teams had to 'fight' with powerful teams from famous IT training centers from China, Korea, and Japan. The fact that 'Chicken' Vietnam team won 1 of 4 first prizes in Hanoi - Asia Region has confirmed the position of Hanoi University of Technology in 88 teams, the world's leading IT university. The next effort of 3 young people will reflect the worthy position for Vietnam in the ranking of the world's most prestigious Programming Contest.

Long Duy Hao