At the 2012 ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining held in February in Seattle, our research team of Adam Sadilek, Henry Kautz and Jeff Bigham received the Best Paper Award for the conference. The paper, entitled "Finding Your Friends and Following Them to Where You Are" was chosen from 75 papers presented at the conference.
Mark Crovella, currently on the Faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Boston University, was named a Fellow of the ACM 2010. Mark studied under Tom LeBlanc while at Rochester.
Recently, Jim Goodman, a reporter from the Democrat & Chronicle, attended a practice session of the URCS ACM programming team while they prepared for the ACM-ICPC World Finals in Harbin, China. Like local athletes featured before their events at the Olympics, our students were the subject of an uplifting article about teamwork.
If you happen to see Ian Christopher, Dennis Huo or Xiaoqing (Sean) Tang diligently practicing for their upcoming trip to China for the ACM World Finals, wish them well. They have been simulating the 5 hour competition in each of their practices for weeks and working through problem sets from past competitions. Such dedication!!
Our undergraduate ACM programming team, including Dennis Huo, Ian Christopher and Xiaoqing (Sean) Tang, along with coach Daniel Stefankovic, was recently interviewed for the ABC affiliate 13WHAM TV. The team, which is headed to the World Finals in the ACM-ICPC Programming Competition in Harbin, China the first week of February, talks about the upcoming competition and their success at the regional finals in this report.
The undergraduate team of Ian Christopher '10, Dennis Huo '10, and Xiaoqing Tang '12 won the ACM-ICPC Regional programming competition at RIT on Saturday, October 31st. As a result, they will advance to the World Finals, to be held in Harbin, China, February 1-6, 2010. This will be UR's first appearance at the World Finals.