Computer Science Professor Served as Judge for International Competition

Dr. John Bonomo, Westminster College associate professor of computer science, was a judge at the world finals for the International Collegiate Programming Contest April 18-21 in Stockholm, Sweden.

This is the eighth consecutive year Bonomo was selected as a judge. In addition, a problem he designed was chosen for inclusion in the competition. That problem received 20 submissions of solutions, five of which were correct.

This year's 100 teams were selected in over 200 regional contests in which nearly 1,900 universities from 88 countries competed.

Winners were determined by a combination of the number of correct answers and the time needed to solve the problems. First place went to St. Petersburg University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics, who correctly solved nine of 11 problems in the five-hour contest. St. Petersburg has won two years in a row.

Tsinghua University in China took second place, followed by St. Petersburg State University and Saratov State University. The best showings for North American teams were MIT (seventh place); University of Waterloo, Canada (10th place); and Carnegie Mellon University (12th place). The University of Waterloo and Carnegie Mellon University compete in the same region as Westminster College.  

Bonomo, who has been with Westminster since 1998, earned a joint undergraduate and master's from Catholic University and Ph.D. from Purdue University.

Contact Bonomo at (724) 946-7287 or e-mail bonomojp@westminster.edu for additional information. Visit http://cm2prod.baylor.edu/login.jsf for more information about the contest.

Dr. John Bonomo