IUB students prove their programming skills at NWERC 2005

From November 11 - 13, the international North-western European Programming Contest (NWERC) 2005 took place in Stockholm at the Royal Institute of Technology. IUB’s team scored 11th in a competition of 46 teams, being the best of the five teams from German universities.

[ Nov 18, 2005]  During the competition the teams of three students each had to solve nine difficult problem sets within five hours in the programming languages C++ or Java. The assignments had names like “Unequalled Consumption”, “Pesky Heroes”, “Tantrix” or “Guardian of Decency” and describe logical problems with a complex set of parameters.

IUB’s team, the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science students Corneliu Margine (3rd year) and Constantin Jucovschi (1st year) from Moldova, and Andrei Giurgiu (2nd year) from Romania, managed to solve four problems compared to the six problems solved by the Swedish winning team of the Lund Institute of Technology. The IUB students outstripped all competitors from other German universities: two teams from Darmstadt University of Technology, one from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and one from the University of Oldenburg.

The competition, which is part of the worldwide, highly competitive ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest with thousands of participants, is open to university students from Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, Iceland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.

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