NMT CS Team Wins Programming Honors
by George Zamora
[photo caption: Members of the New Mexico Tech computer programming
teams. Left to right: (bottom row) Jeffrey Eliasen; Nicholas Pattengale;
Zachary Bradshaw; Philip Griego; Thomee Wright; and Alan Aspinwall; (top
row) Peter Agnew; Daniel Driscoll; and Benjamin Leiting. Not pictured are
team members Jonathan Bradley, Robert Erbes, and Benjamin Sittler.]
DURANGO, Colo, March 13, 2000. -- A team comprised of three New
Mexico Tech seniors majoring in computer science correctly solved
six out of seven problems with computer programs written on the
spot, taking top honors at the recently held Sixteenth Annual
Fort Lewis College Computer Programming Contest in Durango, Colo.
New Mexico Tech fielded four teams in the computing competition,
and all of them fared well. But it was the team of Alan Aspinwall,
Zachary Bradshaw, and Philip Griego which outpaced and outprogrammed
ten other participating teams to be awarded first-place honors
at this year's event.
"New Mexico Tech started participating in this regional
programming contest in 1986 or 1987," said Laszlo Szuecs,
professor of computer science at Fort Lewis College and coordinator
of the undergraduate programming meet.
"And, the teams from New Mexico Tech have always pumped
a lot of life into the contest," he added.
Solving the problems posed at the programming contest required
using computer programs which the students developed "on-site"
with the programming languages Java and C/C++.
Some of the problems included writing programs that kept
track of train cars on a switching network as cars are added and
removed and writing programs that took proper fractions and
turned them into "Egyptian fractions," which are the
sums of several unique fractions that each have a numerator of
one.
Another New Mexico Tech team composed of seniors Jeffrey
K. Eliasen, Benjamin Sittler, and Thomee Wright placed third overall
by solving four out of seven problems.
New Mexico Tech juniors Peter Agnew, Daniel Driscoll, and
Robert Erbes solved three out of seven problems and ended up in
sixth place.
The remaining Tech programming team, comprised of juniors
Jonathan Bradley, Benjamin Leiting, and Nicholas Pattengale, solved
two problems and garnered eighth in the undergraduate
competition.
Faculty advisor for all four of New Mexico Tech's programming
teams was Allan M. Stavely, associate professor of computer science
with Tech's computer science department.
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