Stony Brook Team Earns Honorable Mention at ACM ICPC World Finals

This page commemorates the first Stony Brook team to reach the World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC), held in Atlanta Georgia in 1998, where they hung on to win an honorable mention. The Stony Brook team Pedro Sanders, Dario Vlah, and Colin Loh (shown left to right above) earned the right to compete by finishing first to win the ACM ICPC Greater New York Regional Programming Contest held at West Point, NY on November 9, 1997. Queens College came in second, and Cornell third, with the problems available here. This was famous as the first time a state university beat the Ivy League (teams like Cornell, Columbia and Princeton) to win the region.

The team was coached by Prof. Theo Pavlidis, shown below with the team and hangers on.

Previous years results include:

• 2002 -- Second and Fifth Place Finishes!
• 2003 -- Fourth Place Finish
• 2004 -- Three Top 15 finishes!
• 2005 -- Stony Brook Wins Programming Competition!
• 2006 -- Honorable Mention at World Finals
• 2006 -- Elementary Problems Levels Field, Stony Brook at Regional Programming Contest
• 2007 -- Stony Brook Teams Top Ten Twice in ACM Regional Programming Contest
• 2008 -- Stony Brook Teams First and Third in ACM Regional Programming Contest; Earns Trip to World Finals!
• 2009 -- Honorable Mention in Stockholm

The activities of the Stony Brook Programming Teams are sponsored by a generous grant from Citigroup.