Welcome to the University of Western Ontario's ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Info Page.

About ACM ICPC

The ACM ICPC is an international programming contest held each year that brings teams from different universities together to test their problem solving skills in the forms of programming problems. The contest is separated into the regional and final contest given the number of universities competing. The regional contests are usually held around the first Saturday of November. Winners of the regional contests will be able to enter the world finals in the following February.

News

The schedule of practices for the Fall 2011 term

The practices are held each Tuesday at 5:30pm in MC327.

Congratulations to the Western teams!

Western ranked 9th at the Canadian contest site in Windsor for the 2011 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. The Mustangs (Michael Friesen, Ivana Vilimonovic and Coby Viner) followed three teams from Waterloo, two from Toronto and three others. The Disciples (Nathaniel Bryans, Ben Dunkin, Ruth Wong) also competed, with both teams receiving honourable mentions and with Vadim Mazalov and Stephen Watt as coaches.

Western teams
L-to-R: Nathan Bryans, Ruth Wong, Ben Dunkin, Coby Viner, Ivana Vilimonovic, Michael Friesen, Stephen Watt

Fall 2011 - practices are on!

All those interested are welcome to practice with us during Fall 2011. To know time and place, please contact us.

Winter 2010 - practices are on!

All those interested are welcome to practice with us during Winter 2010. We get together each Tuesday in the ORCCA lab (MC 327) in two separate groups: at 3:30pm and at 5:30pm.

Mustangs Working

Congratulations to our ACM teams, the UWO Mustangs and UWO Disciples, for placing 32nd and 42nd out of 115 school in the 2009 ACM ICPC Regional Contest. The team members who participated were Michael Friesen, Vadim Mazalov, and Jonathan Tieu of the Mustangs and Nathan Bryans, Ilya Litvinov, and Alexander McCallum of the Disciples.
 

Interested?

If you have a zest for programming and/or problem solving and/or mathematics, and would enjoy spending about 3 hours/week practicing with us, you are welcome to contact us.

Here are some recommended links

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest's Official Site

Wiki on ACM ICPC

Official ACM ICPC Site for the East Central North America Region

TopCoder (Programming Contests and Practices)