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A trio of computer-savvy UO students who call themselves "the Buffleheads" recently took first place in a regional programming competition sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Because of their win, Buffleheads James Marr, Dan Stutzbach, and Carl Howells were among the select few invited to participate in the international finals. Out of a total of 3,850 competing teams, only 70 (the top two from each region) moved on to the finals, in which students from Africa, Europe, and the South Pacific participated.
The international competition, officially titled the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, challenged each team to solve eight complex problems in only five hours and write a computer program implementing their solutions. Each team's score was based on how many problems were completed, how much time it took to complete them, and the accuracy of the solutions.
CIS Professor Eugene Luks coached the UO team for the international finals, where they distinguished themselves with an honorable mention. You can see the full report of the contest at http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/