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Under the leadership of Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Thomas Kelliher, Goucher students Dave Gage, Melissa Mento, and Jon Simon will have to solve eight complex programming problems on one computer in five hours.
The teammates will collaborate to rank the difficulty of the problems, deduce the requirements, design test beds, and build software systems that solve the problems with little guidance from the judges.
Goucher’s team will compete against teams from five other schools in the region, including Johns Hopkins and Virginia Commonwealth University.
The team that solves the most problems correctly in the least amount of time will win a spot to compete in the world finals in Stockholm, Sweden.
Goucher has participated in the competition for more than 12 years and has won several honorable mentions.
For more information about the regional competitions, go online to http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/. To learn more about the contest, visit www.ibm.com/university/acmcontest/. Check out podcasts about the competitions at battleofthebrains.podbean.com.
