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2008 Competition in review
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IEEEXtreme 2008 was held on 8 March with 130 student teams from 31 countries around the world. Congratulations to the University of North Texas for winning first place in IEEEXtreme 2008! The team knapsackers at UNT scored the extreme total of 1270.25 points. Our added congratulations to the top ten teams listed below. These outstanding teams are listed by the place and the total number of points they scored. The 2008 program got off to a great start with publicity in IEEE Potentials magazine and online alerts in the Institute newspaper and IEEEXtreme images on web sites around the world. 8 March 2008 was the date and by the beginning of the week of the competition, 100 teams of IEEE student members or graduate student members signed up for the program – an excellent rate of participation for the second edition. By the end of the week and the contest was about to start, a remarkable 130 teams had registered! With the proctors who volunteered their time, we had over 350 participants for the challenge from 31 countries. During the 24 hours, there were 16 problems for the teams to solve. At the start of the contest, the first booklet of 10 problems was distributed to all the proctors. The information was also placed on the web, so everyone had access to the same information at the same time. To keep interest high, a second set of problems was sent after 8 hours and then at hour 16, the final set of problems was sent. During the competition there was so much positive energy from the competitors. Participants were ready to go and the event was a huge success. The organization team members included Ricardo J. Machado, Project leader, Pedro Guerreiro, Chief Judge, Marko Delimar, Elizabeth Johnston, Communications, Laura Durrett and Christine Eldridge, Publicity, registration and logistics. The Orga team members were all online and were able to field all questions online during the 24 hours of the competition. We learned from the first event and also had 10-12 technical judges rotating their time during the 24 hours to answer the technical questions posed by the student participants. The students were sharp and had challenging questions. When the contest ended at GMT 24, all participants logged off sleepily. Kudos to all of those involved that helped make this event a tremendous success for the students. Stay tuned for information on the next IEEEXtreme event. |
2008 Top ten teams
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Top ten team members
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University of North Texas – team knapsackers John Rizzo Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar – team Qatarpillars Hatem Alismail University of Cyprus – team DMT Demos Pavlou University of California-San Diego – team bagpipe lubricators Jordan Rhee Jacobs University Bremen – team Bucuresti X3 Stefan Anca Sharif University of Technology – team Diamond Masoud Farivar University of Florida – team UF 1 Shaun McDowell Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya – team Telecom BCN Manel Martinez Jacobs University Bremen – team KenLee Alen Stojanov Bilkent University l – team Caspian Emre Varol |
