Recently, a Beihang team called Nonsense Time won the 21st place in the world by conquering the world's six most challenging problems in the World Finals of International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) 2019 held in the University of Porto, Portugal, after five hours of fierce competition.
In the Regionals of last year, ICPC pulled together more than 50,000 students from over 3,000 universities around the globe. Eventually, 135 universities, including such top universities as MIT, Stanford University, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Oxford, Moscow University, the University of Tokyo, Seoul National University, Tsinghua University and Peking University, qualified for the World Finals.
With excellent results achieved in the 2018 Asian regional contest, Beihang Nonsense Time team successfully advanced to the 2019 World Finals. The team is composed of three undergraduate students from the School of Computer Science and Engineering: Wu Junjie, Zhong Zihao and Deng Yixing, with Wang Min from the Office of Academic Affairs being the leader and Song You from the School of Software being the coach. Song You won the Outstanding Coach Award from ICPC organizing committee in this contest.
The 2019 ICPC World Finals was sponsored by Huawei Corporation who also organized the ICPC Challenge on April 2, in which Beihang team ranked the 12th in the world (the 2nd among domestic universities).
The ICPC is an annual algorithmic programming contest for college students, aimed at providing a platform to demonstrate students' innovative ability, the ability to challenge, team spirit, and problem-solving skills. Over 40 years of development, ICPC has evolved into the world's most influential programming competition.
The Beihang ICPC competition, hosted by the Office of Academic Affairs and organized by the School of Software, is open to undergraduate students who are interested in taking part in the programming contest and are mainly from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, the School of Mathematics and Systems Science, the School of Software, etc. With a glorious history and fine style, the team has a total of 6 years participating in the World Finals so far.
Reported by Wu Junjie
Reviewed by Song You
Edited by Jia Aiping
Translated by Lyu Xingyun
