Fall 2005

ACM Visit to Paxar

WSU students visit Paxar Corporation to learn more about RFID labels.

The members of WSU-ACM visited Paxar Corporation in Miamisburg last Oct. 14, 2005. Paxar officials gave students a tour of the plant and a lecture about RFID labels.

Paxar designs and produces labels for major retailers, and they also manufacture label printers. For more information about Paxar Corp., visit www.paxar.com.

ACM Local Programming Contest 2005

Students Compete in Local Programming Contest

The ACM WSU Student Chapter conducted its Second Annual Local Programming Contest last Saturday, Oct. 22 from 11am to 2pm. Eight teams tried to solve as many problems as they can in three hours. Participants can use C++, Java or C to solve the problems. ACM provided food and drinks.

Congratulations to the Winners: Ray and Andy! They were the only team to solve a problem successfully within 3 hours.

The ACM Bowling Challenge

CECS clubs compete in the ACM bowling Challenge

ACM challenged the other engineering clubs of WSU to a bowling tournament last Oct. 29, 2005 at 5pm in Beaver-Vu Bowl.

ACM, IEEE, IIE and CWIC battled against each other for the coveted CECS Student Club Bowling Trophy. IIE, IEEE and CWIC each had one team, and ACM had three teams. Food and drinks were provided for the participants.

We congratulate Jeff and Gairy, who won the bowling tournament for IIE. College of Engineering Dean Bor Z. Jang presented the trophy to the champions last Tuesday, November 1 at 2:00 PM.

Even though the tournament was successful, ACM hopes that even more clubs will participate next quarter. If your club would like to compete for the Trophy in Winter Quarter, please watch for further announcements from Nikhil Agrawal and ACM.

ACM
International Collegiate Programming Contest

East Central North America Region

Students from Wright State University compete in the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest East Central North America Regional Programming Contest 2005 (ACM ICPC ECNA RPC)

Wright State University sent two teams to participate in the ACM ICPC East Central North America Regional Programming Contest (ECNA RPC) last Saturday, 5 November 2005 in the University of Cincinnati. The teams were "Off by One" and the "ISO Standard Programmers." Participants must solve eight problems in five hours.

Read more information about the ACM ICPC
View the final report, official problem set and solutions, and final standings for the ACM ECNA RPC.