Westminster Professor Judges International Computer Science Contest
Posted on Thursday, May 5, 2005
Dr. John Bonomo, associate professor of computer science at Westminster College, recently returned from Shanghai where he judged the 29th annual ACM ICPC World Finals sponsored by IBM.
The contest was hosted by Shanghai Jio Tong University at the DuDong Shangri-La Hotel. Seventy-five teams competed from nearly 1,500 universities in over 70 countries, who fielded over 3,800 teams at over 130 sites during regional competitions.
Bonomo also had a problem accepted for this competition. "The problem of mine turned out to be the third-hardest problem, being solved by only three or four teams," Bonomo said. "Once you get a problem selected, you are actually assigned a different problem to judge during the contest. The problem I judged turn out to be the one with the most submissions from the teams, so I was busy from the start to the end of the contest."
Bonomo was a regional judge for the five years. He has been an international judge four times -- in Hawaii, Los Angeles and last year at Prague, Czech Republic.
Bonomo, who has been with Westminster College since 1998, earned his undergraduate and master's degree from Catholic University, and a master's and Ph.D. from Purdue University.
Contact Bonomo at (724) 946-7287 or e-mail bonomojp@westminster.edu for more information.
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