The 24th ACM International Collegiate
Programming Contest World Finals
sponsored by IBM

Orlando, Florida     March 18, 2000


World Champions

St. Petersburg State University
  

Gold Medals

St. Petersburg State University

The University of Melbourne

The University of Waterloo

   

Silver Medals

Albert Einstein University Ulm
St. Petersburg Institute
of Fine Mechanics and Optics
Tsinghua University

Bronze Medals

California Institute of Technology
Charles University Prague
Kyoto University
Shanghai JiaoTong University
University of Alberta

  
Regional Champions

North America

 

University of Waterloo

Africa and the Middle East

 

University of Pretoria

Latin America

 

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Asia

 

Tsinghua University

Europe

 

St.Petersburg State University

The South Pacific

 

The University of Melbourne

  
Rankings

1St. Petersburg State University
2The University of Melbourne
2University of Waterloo
3Albert Einstein University Ulm
4St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics
4Tsinghua University
7Kyoto University
7Shanghai JiaoTong University
8The Chinese University of Hong Kong
8University of Alberta
9California Institute of Technology
10Charles University Prague
11Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
11Carnegie Mellon University
11Moscow State University
11University of Central Florida
11University of Toronto
11University of Washington
11ZhongShan University
15Bucharest University
15Massachusetts Institute of Technology
15Novosibirsk State University
15Southern Ural State University
15Stanford University
15Universidad Politicnica de Madrid
15Virginia Tech
22 Belarusian State University
22 Cornell University
22 Duke University
22 George Mason University
22 Georgia Institute of Technology
22 Harvard University
22 Iowa State University
22 Linkvping University
22 National Tsing-Hua University
22 National University of Singapore School of Computing
22 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
22 The University of Queensland
22 Universidad de Buenos Aires
22 Universiteit Leiden
22 University of California, San Diego
22 University of Pretoria
22 Warsaw University


Honorable Mention

Amir Kabir University of Technology The Johns Hopkins University
Harding University The University of Waikato
Indian Institute Of Technology Kanpur Universidad de las Americas-Puebla
Institute of Informatics PMF Skopje Universidad Simon Bolivar
ITESM Campus Estado de Mexico University of Arkansas
National Taiwan Normal University University of Calgary
Sharif University of Technology University of Oklahoma
South Dakota State University University of Texas at Austin
The American University in Cairo 

Notes:
When ties occur, teams are listed in alphabetical order.
 
Problem F test data contained a defect that was not identified until the contest environment could be faithfully reconstructed from archives.  Problem F was re-judged with test data that did not contain the defect.  Due to the nature of the defect, the rules of the competition, and the ethics of such competitions both standings can be argued as valid.  To resolve the matter, the final standings have been calculated as follows:

The top ten teams of each of the two standings were awarded the higher of their rankings.  The remaining teams were initially assigned the higher of their rankings and the greater of the number of problems solved in the two standings.  One of the teams ranked 11th solved one more problem than the others.  That team was promoted to 10th place which was vacant due to ties.  This resulted in six rankings within which all teams solved the same number of problems.  Adjacent rankings solving the same number of problems were merged upward to form the three rankings of 11th, 15th, and 22nd place respectively.

   
Final Results to be posted Monday, April 24, 2000