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Computer Science Professor Served as Judge for International Competition

Posted on Thursday, February 11, 2010

Dr. John Bonomo, Westminster College associate professor of computer science, was a judge at the world finals for the Association for Computing Machinery's International Collegiate Programming Contest Feb. 1-5 at Harbin Engineering University in Harbin, China.

This is the ninth consecutive year Bonomo was selected as a judge. In addition, a problem he designed was chosen for inclusion in the competition. That problem was correctly solved by 78 of the 103 teams competing.

This year's teams were selected in over 200 regional contests involving more than 1,930 universities from 82 countries.

Winners were determined by a combination of the number of correct answers and the time needed to solve the problems. First place went to Shanghai Jiaotong University, who correctly solved seven of 11 problems in the five-hour contest. This is the third win for the school, having also won in 2002 and 2005.

Moscow State University took second place, followed by National Taiwan University. Six North American teams tied for 14th place: Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, MIT, Stanford University, University of Maryland, and University of Waterloo, Canada. 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 degree 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://cm.baylor.edu/welcome.icpc for more information about the contest and a complete list of winners.