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Discuss “CMU programmers compete in international contest”

The 30th annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), sponsored by IBM, has gathered the world’s brightest computer programming talent for an all-out “battle of the brains” in San Antonio, Texas, until Thursday.

More than 5600 teams, representing 1733 universities from around the globe, participated in the regional competitions last fall. The top 83 teams earned coveted spots on the 2006 ACM-ICPC World Finals roster. Carnegie Mellon’s Dragons team consists of sophomore computer science majors Jeff Schroder, Evan Danaher, and Andrew Warshaver, and Charles Defazio, a senior computer science major. They are one of only 17 U.S. teams scheduled to compete in the World Finals.

Teams of three students will be challenged...

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