Computer Science Team Advances to Northeast Regional Competition Finals
Contact: George Markowsky, 581-3940
On Saturday, Oct. 23, the UMaine Computer Science Department sent two teams to a preliminary competition at Western New England College in Springfield, Mass. The first team, with members Sean Edwards, Avner Maiberg and Emma Strubell, finished second in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Programming Competition and qualified to compete in the Northeast Finals in Rochester, N.Y. on Nov. 6. The second team, with members Mike Chasson and Joshua Komusin, hampered by having only two members because of a very last-minute scratch, nevertheless solved several of the problems at the competition. This is the first time in many years that UMaine has fielded a team for the International ACM Programming Competition, according to George Markowsky, department chair.