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WKU Students Second In November 08, 2004 Western was one of 11 teams competing at Tennessee Tech in the 2004-2005 ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) International Collegiate Programming Contest. The Cookeville site was one of 10 in the Mid-Central USA regionals, which attracted 111 teams from 60 schools. WKU team members were seniors John M. Law of Adairville, Abe Music of Dawson Springs and Aziz Bah of Bowling Green. Art Shindhelm, computer science professor, accompanied the team. In the competition, teams were given five hours to solve seven real-world programming problems that test programming skill, creativity and teamwork. Western was one of two teams in Cookeville that solved four of the seven problems. This is the fourth straight year that Western finished in the top three at the Cookeville site, including a first-place finish in 2001. The ACM competition is entering its 29th year and has grown into the largest and most prestigious contest of its kind, with the number of teams quadrupling since IBM began sponsorship in 1997. For more on the competition, visit http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/ For more information, contact Uta Zeigler at (270) 745-4642. More WKU news is available at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via e-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.
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