The Contest

The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM/ICPC) is the largest programming contest among university and college students in the world. This contest was initiated in 1976 by ACM and seeks to engage academics and the information technology industry in shining the spotlight on the next generation of computing professionals and scholars, and to encourage the development of and to recognize excellent team work, programming skills, and problem-solving talent.

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), funded in 1947, is the world's first educational and scientific computing society

The contest is a two-tiered competition among teams of students representing institutions of higher education. Teams first compete in the regional contests held around the world from September to November each year. The winning team from each regional contest advances to the ACM/ICPC World Finals, normally held the following March to mid-April. Additional high-ranking teams may be invited to the World Finals as wild card teams.

In 2005 regional contests, 5,606 teams selected from 1,737 universities in 84 countries competed at 145 sites and hundreds more competing at preliminary contests worldwide, 83 teams advanced to The 30th Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals sponsored by IBM on April 12, 2006, and hosted by Baylor University.

The 2005 Tehran contest was held with 80 teams from 47 universities. Three teams from Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Shahid Beheshti University, and Ho Chi Minh University in Vietnam advanced to the 2006 World Finals .

Tehran Site

For the 8th year in a row, Sharif University of Technology will be hosting the ACM/ICPC regional contest as one of the 12 sites in Asia.

The Tehran contest is scheduled to be held in SUT during Wednesday Dec 13 till Friday Dec 15, 2006 (Azar 23-24, 1385). We are hosting about 90 teams of university students from Iran and countries in the Asia.



The winning teams of Tehran contest will automatically advance to the 31th ACM/ICPC world finals to be held during March 12-16, 2007 in Hilton Tokyo Bay. ACM and IBM will bear part of the travelling expenses for each advancing team.

Rules

Computing Environment

  • Computer

    • CPU : Pentium IV 2.4 GHz
    • Memory : 512MB, HDD : 40G
    • Monitor : 17in
    • Mouse : PS/2 Wheel Mouse
    • Keyboard : PS/2 Keyboard
    • OS : Win/XP professional with SP2.

  • OS: Windows XP SP2

  • Compilers

    • Javac (JDK version 1.6)
    • gpp (GCC 4.2.2)
    • g++ (gcc3.4.5)
    • dcc32.exe (Pascal)
    • cl.exe (vc.net 2008)

  • Development Tools

    • Eclipse 3.3
    • DJGPP 2.03 (gpp)
    • MinGW 5.1.3 (g++)
    • Borland Delphi 7 (Pascal)
    • Visual C++ express 2008

  • Reference Materials:

    • MSDN
    • JDK documentation
    • sgi STL documentation
  • Editors

    • Emacs 21.3
    • TextPad 5.0
    • UltraEdit 13.20
    • GVim 7.1
  • Contest Environment

    • PC2 8.7

    Problem Selection

    The scientific committee is responsible for preparing the contest problems which are selected from those proposed by its member and received from the participating teams. All universities are asked to contribute to this important task. A call for problem proposal will be sent out.

    So far as possible, the problems will avoid dependence on detailed knowledge of a particular application area or programming language.