Pacific ACM Hosts ICPC!

This past weekend on November 13th, the University of the Pacific ACM hosted the annual International Collegiate Programming Contest. This year 21 teams from all over California competed to be given the opportunity to travel to Egypt for the World Championships. Our own Pacific teams were among those in attendance for the event.

The John T. Chambers Technology Center proved to be an excellent location for the contest, boasting flexible work spaces and Gigabit Ethernet throughout. This years ICPC was truly a success.

I would like to take a moment to thank the many who worked with me to help put ICPC @ Pacific together this year. Dean Ravi Jain and Dr. Louise Stark for their assistance with the new building. Professor Mike Doherty for being an excellent site director. Pacific OIT and David Lundy for providing excellent network support and for working with us in a limited schedule. Pacific ACM officers for their hard work in helping me plan the event and gathering of food and resources. Theta Tau for supplying many helpers for the event. And the University of the Pacific School of Engineering and Computer Science (SOECS) for the tremendous amount of support and putting up with over 100 people in the Chambers Hallway! And many thanks to all those who helped out and took time out of your busy schedule to lend a hand!

And, while the contest was going on, I managed to grab a few photos!

And after the event, after cleanup and re-imaging the computers, ACM held it's first Official Unofficial LAN in CTC 114! Here are a few photos to prove and show what fun it was!

If you have photos of ICPC or the Post ICPC LAN, please send them to myself or Professor Doherty.

Thanks again to everyone for their help and congratulations to our three teams!

Shawn Kerns
ACM President