Upcoming Oct 31: Two Alberta teams are going to the
ACM Rocky Mountain regionals in Saskatoon
to compete with about 50 other teams for one spot in the
2010 world finals
in Harbin, China.
Good luck to Alberta 1: Roshan Shariff, Travis Dick, Iain Ireland
and
Alberta 2: Xiaomin Zhang, Timo Ewalds, and David Szepesvari.
Oct 17: Our team Alberta 1 won the 7th ACPC Alberta Collegiate
Programming Contest by
4 minutes
over Calgary 1!
Stanford 1 won the guest event with 9 out of 10 problems solved, ahead of
UBC and Waterloo.
Aug 22: At the Human vs. Computer Program Competition (FUZZ-IEEE 2009) Event
held August 21-22 on Jeju Island, Korea,
Fuego won a game of 9x9 Go against the top-rank (9 Dan)
professional player Zhou Junxun (his name is also transliterated as Chou Chun-Hsun).
It is the first time that a computer program has won a 9x9 game
on even against a top-ranked player,
so this represents a milestone for Computer Go.
May 2009: Our Go program
Fuego
won Gold and Silver at the Computer Olympiad 2009 in Pamplona, Spain!
See the
9x9
and
19x19
results
and the report in the
Department news
Oct 2008: Our programming team won the Rocky Mountain regionals, and went
to the world finals in Stockholm!
See the UofA
Expressnews report.
Coaching and Outreach
Coaching our
Programming Club.
We meet Fridays at 3pm in the Algorithmics Lab CSC 217.
Come join the team, and maybe you can go to the
ACM-ICPC world finals
too!
Computing science in high schools,
especially the
Iverson Exam