En 2006 se llevó a cabo por primera vez el IEEEXtreme, un concurso de programación a nivel global para estudiantes del IEEE.
En esta edición, ningún grupo de Latinoamérica pudo colocarse entre los primeros diez lugares, pero en 2007 esperemos lograr mejores resultados. Felicitaciones a los participantes.
He aquí un mensaje de los organizadores:
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IEEEXtreme 2006 Results
We are writing to finally wrap up IEEEXtreme 2006. My name is Jim Riess and I am a volunteer member serving as RAB Vice Chair of Student Activities and Chair of the Student Activities Committee. I, like you, work closely with Laura Durrett, Manager of Student Services on staff in the Regional Activities Department at the IEEE Operations Center in Piscataway, New Jersey.
Many of you participated in the SAC sponsored IEEEXtreme 24 hour programming challenge held on 2 December 2006. We thank you for your enthusiasm and interest and most of all for your patience and cooperation while you waited for the final results. We are pleased to let you know that the results are finally available.
Congratulations to team 1 at the Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya in Spain for winning first place in IEEEXtreme 2006! Team 1 from this university scored the highest on the computer programming and the extra point challenges for an extreme total of 829 points.
Our added congratulations to the top nine teams listed below. These outstanding teams are listed by the total number of points they scored:
Student Branch Team Region Total Points
SUNY Stony Brook University Team 1 R1 691
University of Cyprus Team 1 R8 674
Eindhoven University Team 1 R8 664
University of Zagreb Team 2 R8 617
Ecole Polytechnic of Montreal Team 1 R7 601
University of California-Berkeley Team 1 R6 598
University of Zagreb Team 1 R8 596
Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology Team 1 R10 582
University of Cyprus Team 3 R8 573
The 2006 program got off to a great start with publicity in IEEE Potentials magazine about the contest. By two days before the competition, 47 teams of IEEE student members or graduate student members signed up for the program – a really good showing for the first year. With the proctors who volunteered their time, we had over 150 participants for the challenge. During the 24 hours, there were 12 problems for the teams to solve. The problems were included in a booklet that was distributed to all the proctors at the start of the competition. There were “extra credit” problems sent every 8 hours to keep interest high. The organization team members included Ricardo Varela, Marko Delimar, Elizabeth Johnston, Laura Durrett and Christine Eldridge. They were all online and were able to field all questions online during the 24 hour of the competition. When the contest ended at GMT 24, all participants logged off sleepily.
During the competition there was so much positive energy from the competitors. Participants were ready to go and the event itself was a huge success. However, with any new program, there are always going to be unforeseen issues encountered. Although the competition itself ran smoothly, the evaluation and judging processes turned out to be slower than anticipated. The required worldwide involvement of volunteers for the organizing committee and the judging committee only complicated the process. Time constraints of these volunteers including our fantastic organizing committee and our prestigious judges added to the delay. And the desire to assure that the results are as correct and accurate as possible extended the evaluation time.
We do apologize for the delay in sending you these final results. We will be working on automation of the processes for IEEEXtreme 2007. We will streamline and improve the evaluation and judging processes and make improvements in judging the results.
If your team did not place in the top ten and you would like to receive your score, please send an email to ieeextreme@ieee.org and we will send you the information. If you would like to send feedback, please use the same email address.
We are forming the 2007 IEEEXtreme team and we look forward to your participation this year. Check the web site at http://www.ieee.org/xtreme for updates.
Sincerely,
Jim and Laura
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