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Dear Students/Coach,
Greetings from Campus Connect!
We are pleased to announce ACM ICPC for Asia-Amritapuri site for 2013-14, Infosys is the platinum sponsor like last year. As you know, Association for Computing Machinery(ACM)- International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is world’s largest programming
contest for students. The registrations are in progress for 2013-2014.
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What is ACM ICPC 2013:
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is a multitier, team-based, programming competition operating under the auspices of ACM headquartered at Baylor University. The contest involves a global network of universities hosting regional competitions
that advance teams to the ACM-ICPC World Finals. Participation has grown to several tens of thousands of the finest students and faculty in computing disciplines over 850 countries on six continents. The contest fosters creativity, teamwork, and innovation
in building new software programs, and enables students to test their ability to perform under pressure.
Quite simply, it is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world.
Amrita has been hosting ACM ICPC for the past 7 years. Over this short span of time Amrita has created a tremendous ICPC wave across the country by excellent team participation – starting with the count of 65 teams in the first year, it has become more than
1200 in the last year. With the constant support and encouragement from the sponsors – IBM, Infosys, Directi & this year HackerRank.com.
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ACM-ICPC Important Dates:
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Registration Start Date
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Thursday, 1st August, 2013
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at Baylor Site Visit and register in
http://icpc.baylor.edu/
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Registration End Date
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Thursday, 15th October, 2013
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Online Contest
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Sunday, 23rd
October 2013
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Onsite Contest
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December
18– 19, 2013 (Wednesday & Thursday)
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Important: Upon receiving email from ICPC Management System, all the contestants shall compulsorily fill their profile on or before
October 15th, 2013 05:00 PM IST. All incomplete registrations will be rejected without any notice.
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Please refer this link for more details on important dates: http://icpc.amrita.ac.in/2013/?page_id=54
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Teams qualifying from the online round will be invited to the onsite contest to be held in December at Amritapuri(Kerala),Coimbatore(Tamil Nadu) and Bangalore(Karnataka)
3) Infosys Campus Connect – Gold Sponsor
Infosys Campus Connect is the Gold Sponsor for this Amrita ACM-ICPC Contest. Campus Connect is Infosys’ program to help increase India’s competitiveness in the knowledge economy. Campus Connect aims at evolving a model through which Infosys and engineering
institutions can partner for competitiveness, enhance the pool of highly capable talent for growth requirements in Information Technology (IT) space. It is aimed at
creating an effective means of backward integration into the supply chain by going into the college campuses from where the IT industry gets the people for its growth.
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Participation & Registration Details:
Please refer to below link:
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Please follow this link http://icpc.amrita.ac.in/2013/
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Click on below link for participation & Registration
http://icpc.amrita.ac.in/2013/?page_id=54
http://icpc.baylor.edu/
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Note: Fee waiver for ACM ICPC Asia Amritapuri Regional, for those teams who top in the Aspirations 2020 DC Finals & ACM ICPC Asia Amritapuri online contests
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ACM-ICPC levels of competition:
The annual event is comprised of several levels of competition (based on previous event stats):
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Local Contests – Online:
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Regional Contests – Onsite:
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World Finals: The qualified teams will represent the best of the great universities on six continents - the cream of the crop.
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Online Contest Rules:
Please refer to below link:
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http://icpc.amrita.ac.in/2013/?page_id=14
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Onsite Contest Rules:
Please refer to below link:
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http://icpc.amrita.ac.in/2013/?page_id=16
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How to Prepare:
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Use the links given below to help to help prepare for the contest. Start with the Tutorial problems, and then try problems from old
Regional contests. A good way is to first pick out the easy ones that many others have solved.
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Previous year’s problem sets are available here.
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For more problem sets and books, UVA
Online Judge.
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Codeforces.com has
excellent set of problems.
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CodeChef.com is
also a collection of problem sets.
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HackerRank.com is
a growing up site with lot of challenges.
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ACM ICPC Problem Set Archive
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UVA Online Judge
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SPOJ (Sphere Online Judge)
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Topcoder
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Infosys Aspirations 2020 Contest page
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CodeChef.com
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More Online Judges
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ACM-ICPC FAQ:
For frequently asked questions(FAQ), Please refer to:
http://icpc.amrita.ac.in/2013/?page_id=220/
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Important Note:
Information mentioned above may change time to time. The above information is provided for initial understanding about ACM-ICPC Contest.
Please refer to below links for more updates on ACM-ICPC:
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Amrita Site:
http://icpc.amrita.ac.in/2013/
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ACM-ICPC Baylor site:
http://cm.baylor.edu/welcome.icpc
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Please contact Amrita Team at:
ic...@am.amrita.edu
for any clarifications/ queries.
Good luck!
Best Regards,
Aspirations2020 Team,
Campus Connect,
Infosys Limited
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