• Submitted by: manso
• International
• 02 / 22 / 2011

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2011.02.22 -radiorebelde.Havana, Cuba.- For the first time, two Cuban teams qualified for the final round of the International Collegiate Programming Contest of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM-ICPC).

The director of the Caribbean venue of ACM-ICPC, Dovier Antonio Ripoll, announced that the teams ‘Olympus’, from the University of Computer Sciences (UCI), and ‘UH++’, from the University of Havana, will represent Cuba in the contest, scheduled from February 27 through March 4 in Egypt.

A member of the ‘Olympus’ team, Rislaidy Perez, expressed his joy for participating in the event and congratulated the rest of the team on the website of his university.

The ACM-ICPC is an annual competition on programming and algorithms among universities from all over the world organized by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).

Team work, problems analysis, and the development of software are some of the main requirements to the participants in the event.

Nearly 200 teams from a hundred higher education institutions contested in the qualifying competition for Latin America; and now the ‘Manowar’ team, from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, –– which qualified in the competition for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean––, will join the Cuban teams, Ripoll stated.

He added that Cuba has requested the International Committee of the event to organize the final round of the Contest in 2016 or 2018, which, if granted, would be the first time that Latin America hosts a contest of this kind.

The ACM-ICPC was founded in 1970 and since 1989 regional competitions have taken place worldwide.

In 2010, a team from the ‘Marta Abreu’ Central University of Las Villas, from the central Cuban province of Villa Clara, qualified for the first time for a similar event held in the People’s Republic of China.(ACN)