History

From VT.Prog

At Virginia Tech, we have had a long history of excellence in the ACM programming contest. Almost every year one of our teams qualifies for the world finals.

Contents 1 Coaches 1.1 Sallie Henry 1.2 Logan Hanks 1.3 Joseph Gleason 2 World Finals 2.1 2008 - Banff, Canada 2.2 2007 - Tokyo 2.3 2006 - San Antonio 2.4 2005 - Shanghai 2.5 2004 - Prague 2.6 2003 - Beverly Hills 2.7 2002 - Honolulu 2.8 2001 - Vancouver 2.9 2000 - Orlando 2.10 1999 - Eindhoven, Netherlands 3 Regionals 3.1 2009 3.2 2008 3.3 2007 3.4 2006 3.5 2005 3.6 2004 3.7 2003 3.8 2002 3.9 2001 3.10 2000 3.11 1999 3.12 1998

Coaches

Sallie Henry

Dr. Sallie Henry coached the programming team since basically the dawn of time. Her gentle looming and criticism inspired generations of Virginia Tech programmers. She would always remind us that we should maybe solve some problems, and that we should test more, that our variable names were too long and of course that we were bad at estimating time. Her last regional contest as coach was 2004.

Logan Hanks

For many years Logan acted as the assistant coach for Dr. Henry. For years he patiently ran practices, encouraged us and generally made us feel like fools for not being able to solve problems.

Joseph Gleason

Starting in the fall of 2005, with Dr. Henry no longer in the area and Logan having just left to work at google there was a power vacuum and the continuance of the VT programming team was in question. Joe decided he might as well take care of it. He e-mailed to CS department head asking for an OK, got nothing back and started ordering people around regardless.

World Finals

2008 - Banff, Canada

2007 - Tokyo

• Cris Kania, Mike Henry, Joel Riley

2006 - San Antonio

• George Hilios, Mike Henry, Vinh Ly

2005 - Shanghai

• Derek Brandao, Gustavo Moura, Doug Peterson

2004 - Prague

• Kevin Ferguson, Greg Grothaus, Joseph Gleason

2003 - Beverly Hills

• Adrian Porter, Jamie Eckman, Alex Kalita

2002 - Honolulu

• Adrian Porter, William Luebke, Alex Verstak

2001 - Vancouver

This is the year that we got 2nd place. I blame Logan Hanks.

• Logan Hanks, Alex Kalita, Tim Terriberry

2000 - Orlando

• Rob Clancy, Logan Hanks, Albert Lee

1999 - Eindhoven, Netherlands

• David Mayhew, Albert Lee, Tim Terriberry

Regionals

2009

Contest Winner: UMCP Terps 1 (U of M)

Scoreboard

• VT1 - Weasel Ball - John Edstrom, Gabe Martinez, Andy Street
• VT2 - Apple Butter - John Sherwood, Steve Beam, Ben Reid
• VT3 - Really Old Candy - Will Brady, Sahil Talwar, Jayton Gill
• VT4 - Rocking Chair - Kevin Zeng, Vikram Rajasekaran, Zach Buckley

2008

Contest Winner: UMCP Terps 1 (U of M)

Scoreboard

• Virginia Tech - Coconut Storm - John Edstrom, Timothy Tutt, Gabriel Martinez
• Virginia Tech - Pineapple Awakening - Andy Street, Steve Beam, John Sherwood
• Virginia Tech - Midnight Pomegranate - Jayton Gill, Ben Reid, Travis Collins

2007

Contest Winner: robowat (Duke)

Scoreboard

• Virginia Tech 1 - Circular Trees (James Knighton, Anthony Romero, Ben Reid)
• Virginia Tech 2 - Fighting Vertices (Tolley, Andy Street, Ramesh)
• Virginia Tech 3 - Floyd's Folly (Tim, Gabe, John)
• Virginia Tech 4 - Hamiltonion Pathfinders (Travis, Jason)

2006

Contest Winner: Virginia Tech 1

Scoreboard

• Virginia Tech 1 - The Milk's Gone Bad - Cris Kania, Mike Henry, Joel Riley
• Virginia Tech 2 - (N+1) Amigos where N=2 - Jef HuKari, John Araya, Russel Tolley
• Virginia Tech 3 - Congressional Pages - Jayton Gill, Dan Little
• Virginia Tech 4 - Shaka When the Walls Fell - Timothy Tutt, John Edstrom, Naren Sundaravaradan
• Virginia Tech 5 - The Tersely Cogents - Gabriel Martinez, Shen Lu, Jonathan Rexrode

2005

Contest Winner: University of Maryland College Park Terps

Scoreboard

• Virginia Tech 1 - George Hilios, Mike Henry, Vinh Ly
• Virginia Tech 2 - Jef HuKari, Carl Sutter, Doug Peterson
• Virginia Tech 3 - Cris Kanis, James Knighton, Joel Riley
• Virginia Tech 4 - John Araya, Devin Dasbach, Will Randolph

2004

Contest Winner: Duke Magabe

Scoreboard

• Virginia Tech 1 - Joseph Gleason, Vinh Ly, Allen Kerr
• Virginia Tech 2 - Derek Brandao, Gustavo Moura, Doug Peterson
• Virginia Tech 3 -
• Virginia Tech 4 -
• Virginia Tech 5 -

2003

Contest Winner: Virginia Tech 1

Scoreboard

• Virginia Tech 1 - Kevin Ferguson, Greg Grothaus, Joseph Gleason
• Virginia Tech 2 - Allen Kerr, Eric Tressler, Patrick Butler
• Virginia Tech 3 -
• Virginia Tech 4 -
• Virginia Tech 5 -

2002

Contest Winner: Virginia Tech 3

Scoreboard

• Virginia Tech 1 - Kevin Ferguson, Alex Kalita, Mike Heffner
• Virginia Tech 2 - Dan Moisa, Greg Grothaus, Ben Andrews
• Virginia Tech 3 - Adrian Porter, Jamie Eckman, Joseph Gleason
• Virginia Tech 4 - Eric Tressler, Allen Kerr, Brian Maher
• Virginia Tech 5 - Goeff Filippi, Derek Brandao, Aaron Kaluszkant

2001

Contest Winner: Duke Hamurer

Standings

• Virginia Tech 1 - Alex Verstak, William Luebke, Adrian Porter
• Virginia Tech 2 - John Zaloudek, Brandon Horsley, Eric Tessler
• Virginia Tech 3 - Nathan Dilday, John Costigan, Allen Kerr
• Virginia Tech 4 - Alex Kalita, Kevin Ferguson, Mike Heffner
• Virginia Tech 5 - Dan Moisa, Greg Grothaus, Brent Metz

2000

Contest Winner: Virginia Tech 1

Scoreboard

• Virginia Tech 1 - Logan Hanks, Alex Kalita, Tim Terriberry
• Virginia Tech 2 - Ahmed Desouky, Nick Pappas, ?
• Virginia Tech 3 - Alex Verstak, William Luebke, Dan Moisa
• Virginia Tech 4 - Eric Tessler, Brent Metz, ?

1999

Contest Winner: Johns Hopkins University: Optimus Prime

Scoreboard

1998

Contest Winner: Virginia Tech 1

Scoreboard