Campus report :
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) team has become champion in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC 2014) Asia regional, Dhaka site online contest. Taiwan placed 2nd while another team of SUST became 3rd in the contest. A total of 135 teams from 72 universities and different IT institutes participated in this online contest from 9:00am to 2:00pm on Sunday at Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) campus at Mirpur in the city. BUBT is the organizer of the contest for the first time. IBM and operated under the auspices of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) sponsored the program.
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Prof Dr M. Kaykobad, Chief Co-ordinator of ACM Council Bangladesh Prof Abul L. Haque were in the judges’ panel of the contest along with Dr Abdul Matin Patwary, former Vice-Chancellor of BUET; and Prof M. Abu Saleh, BUBT Vice-Chancellor.
Registrar Enayet Hossain Mia, BUBT Dean of Applied Science and Engineering Mominul Haque, Computer Science and Engineering Chairman Raisul Alamin also present. ACM-ICPC is an annual multi-tiered competition among the universities of the world. There are 13 different sites in Asia that host Asia Regional Final and Dhaka is one of them. The champion team of these regional contests will get the chance to participate the world final that is scheduled to be held in 2015. The world champion will be awarded a crest where top 3 will awarded with medal and top 10 will get cash as prize.
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) team has become champion in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC 2014) Asia regional, Dhaka site online contest. Taiwan placed 2nd while another team of SUST became 3rd in the contest. A total of 135 teams from 72 universities and different IT institutes participated in this online contest from 9:00am to 2:00pm on Sunday at Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) campus at Mirpur in the city. BUBT is the organizer of the contest for the first time. IBM and operated under the auspices of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) sponsored the program.
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Prof Dr M. Kaykobad, Chief Co-ordinator of ACM Council Bangladesh Prof Abul L. Haque were in the judges’ panel of the contest along with Dr Abdul Matin Patwary, former Vice-Chancellor of BUET; and Prof M. Abu Saleh, BUBT Vice-Chancellor.
Registrar Enayet Hossain Mia, BUBT Dean of Applied Science and Engineering Mominul Haque, Computer Science and Engineering Chairman Raisul Alamin also present. ACM-ICPC is an annual multi-tiered competition among the universities of the world. There are 13 different sites in Asia that host Asia Regional Final and Dhaka is one of them. The champion team of these regional contests will get the chance to participate the world final that is scheduled to be held in 2015. The world champion will be awarded a crest where top 3 will awarded with medal and top 10 will get cash as prize.
