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Computer Science Students from HKU are First Runners-up in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (Asia Regional)

03 Dec 2004

 

The HKU team was the first runners-up at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) (Asia Regional) held in Taipei. They beat strong competitors from Tsinghua University and University of Tokyo, as well as all other teams from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The team consisted of Tse Chi Yung (Information Systems/Software Engineering, year 4), Tam Siu Lung (postgraduate student) and Liu Chi Man (Computer Science and Information Systems, year 2). The HKU team solved a total of 7 problems out of 10 within 779 minutes and led for more than 80% of the time of the competition. The team from Shanghai Jiaotong University only wrestled the lead from HKU within the very last hour by solving their 8th problem, using a total of 1197 minutes for all problems.

A second HKU team with members Chan Man Hon (Computer Engineering, year 3), Lam Pak Shu (Information Systems/Software Engineering, year 3) and Pang Wing Pan (Computer Science and Information Systems, year 2) solved 5 problems in 862 minutes. They won the 5th place at the competition.

A third team consisting of Lee Lap Kei (postgraduate student), Kwan Wing Shing (Information Systems/Software Engineering, year 3) and Tang Cho Yin (Computer Science and Information Systems, year 1) received an honourable mention.

Professor T S Ng, Dean of HKU's Faculty of Engineering, is pleased with the result. "This is the world's premier university competition in the computing sciences and engineering," he said. "We congratulate and thank the outstanding HKU teams as well as Dr K.W. Chong of the Department of Computer Science, who served as the coach."

The first runners-up team may have the opportunity to compete at the ACM Programming Contest World Finals in April next year in Shanghai, China, hosted by the Jiaotong University.

For media enquiries, please contact Dr K.W. Chong at HKU's Department of Computer Science (tel 2857 8461).

Photo captions:
Picture 1: http://www.hku.hk/eroesite/html/press/acm%231.jpg
A balloon - the classic icon for bingo in the contest - will be stuck beside the computer right after a problem has been solved.
HKU programming team members (left to right):
Chan Man Hon (Computer Engineering, year 3), Lam Pak Shu Porsche (Information Systems/Software Engineering, year 3), Pang Wing Pan (Computer Science and Information Systems, year 2), Lee Lap Kei (postgraduate student), Tang Cho Yin (Computer Science and Information Systems, year 1), Liu Chi Man (Computer Science and Information Systems, year 2), Tse Chi Yung (Information Systems/Software Engineering, year 4), Kwan Wing Shing (Information Systems/Software Engineering, year 3), Tam Siu Lung (postgraduate student).

Picture 2: http://www.hku.hk/eroesite/html/press/acm%232.jpg
Prize presentation for HKU team who was the first runner-up at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) (Asia Regional) held in Taipei.
Team members (left to right): Tse Chi Yung (Information Systems/Software Engineering, year 4), Liu Chi Man (Computer Science and Information Systems, year 2) and Tam Siu Lung (postgraduate student).