2003 ACM MidAtlantic Programming Contest

2005 Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition

The Mid-Atlantic Region includes southern New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina.

Contest date: November 12, 2005

Event Contacts:

Site Director: Dr. Carol Wellington (cawell@ship.edu) (717) 477-1424
Technical Support: Mr. Brian Zufall (btzufa@wharf.ship.edu) (717) 477-1178
Local Site Judge: Mr. Tom Briggs (thb@ship.edu) (717) 477-1354

Registration:

Registration is handled through the main Mid-Atlantic Site, http://midatl.cslab.vt.edu/. Shippensburg will provide space for up to 18 teams.

Computing Environment (not updated for 2004):

Machines available for the contest will (tentatively) be running RedHat Fedora Core 4, and have GCC 4.1, Java 1.5 installed. Available editors will include: vi, vim, (x)emacs, and pico. Debuggers include gdb, xxgdb, and jdb. Shells available include bash, csh, sh, ksh, and zsh. Standard RedHat window managers will be supported, including Gnome, KDE and Twm.

The alternative environment will be a Solaris 10 / Java Desktop environment using Sun Blade 1500 workstations.

Contest submissions will use the PC² judging software.

Please send requests for particular packages not listed here to Brian Zufall (btzufa@wharf.ship.edu)

Tentative Event Schedule:

8:00am	Team sign-in, Continental Breakfast
9:00am	Information and machine assignments
10:00am	Practice session
11:00am	Lunch
12 - 5:00pm	Competition
5:00pm	Dinner

Individuals who require a special diet (kosher, vegetarian, etc) should contact the CS Department Secretary, Helena Burhman, hcburh@wharf.ship.edu (717) 477-1178

Directions to Shippensburg University:

General directions to campus are available through http://www.ship.edu/about.

The competition will be held on the second floor of the Mathematics & Computing Technologies Center (MCT). See http://www.ship.edu/about/campus.html for a campus map (building 35 on that map).

Parking information is not available yet, but will be provided here.

Regional Hotel & Restaurant Information:

List of nearby hotels and lodging: http://www.ship.edu/admiss/lodging.html

List of nearby restaurants: http://www.ship.edu/~alumni/restaurant.htm

Shippensburg is near two larger towns. Chambersburg is closer, about 15 miles south on I-81. Carlisle is further away, about 25 miles north on I-81, but offers more urban amenities.

Registered Teams: