From July 19 to 20, the 46th International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Asia-East Continent Final Contest was held in Xi'an. Five teams from Beihang University have won three gold and two bronze medals, which marked the best achievement of Beihang in ICPC over the past three years.
This final contest was hosted by ICPC and organized by Northwestern Polytechnical University and Shaanxi Computer Education Society, attracting 363 teams from 164 universities including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University to participate in.
For this year's contest, Beihang has organized 12 teams (3 members per team) from 10 schools including the School of Computer Science and Engineering, the School of Software, ShenYuan Honors College, etc. The university’s training teams participated in all six regionals and the final contest, nabbing a third place,14 gold, 8 silver and 4 bronze medals in total.
At Beihang University, the ICPC competition is organized and implemented by the Department of Academic Affairs and the School of Software, attracting undergraduate and graduate students from all schools. Founded in 2005, the ACM Training Team of Beihang University usually organizes a university-level competition on program design each year to select ACM contestants while improving students’ basic ability in program design. Almost 40 students will be selected and then form three-person teams to be trained in spring and summer. Later in September, they will begin to take part in ICPC trials.
The International Collegiate Programming Contest is the world’s largest top-level programming competition for college students, attracting the largest number of participants each year. Known as the “Olympic Games” in the IT industry, the contest aims to enable students to fully demonstrate their ability to analyze and solve problems with computers. The competition is held once a year.
In the season of 2021-2022, ACM-ICPC has six regionals in east Asia, which were held in Jinan, Shenyang, Shanghai, Nanjing, Macau, and Kunming, respectively. The Asia-East Continent Final was held in Xi'an after the regionals.
ICPC regional contests are held once a week and usually last for half a year. Universities that are promoted in regional contests and Asia-East Continent Final will be qualified to compete in the World Final of ICPC next year.
Reported by Qu Yue
Reviewed by Lei Xiaofeng
Edited by Jia Aiping
Translated by Wen Li
