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Computer Team Wins Regionals
A three-student team from the Computer Science
and Engineering Programs at UB took first place
in a regional computer problem-solving contest,
beating out teams from the University of
Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology,
Middlebury College, SUNY at Buffalo and Colgate,
among others.
 Students
Mher Grigorian, a graduate student, and Tomas
Vitulskis and Igor Bolgachenko, both
undergraduates, had six hours to solve six
computer software problems at the North East
North American Regional Preliminaries at SUNY
Oswego on October 16.
The UB team was the only one out of the 18 teams
to solve all 6 problems. The contest is sponsored
by IBM under the auspices of the Association of
Computing Machinery, a national professional
organization for computing science. "Our
first place finish was a pretty big surprise for
most teams since we solved three of the problems
during the last 30 minutes of the contest,"
said Grigorian. The second team from UB competing
in the contest came in 13th place.
"We are extremely proud of our team's
win," said Dr. Tarek M. Sobh, the director
of the School of Engineering and Design."Our
Computer Science and Computer Engineering
Programs are unique in that our undergraduate
students do research and publish scholarly
papers. The reason we have this caliber of
student is due to the fact that we offer great
scholarship packages, a strong internship program
and small classes," said Sobh. The
first-place UB team advanced to the regional held
on November 6th at Westfield State College in
western Massachusetts. Other teams there included
Harvard and MIT. Although we didn't do as well
there as during the regionals, we still finished
in a very respectable mid-range.
The UB team has consistently ranked in the top
twenty percent in the computer regional
competition since it began competing three years
ago, Sobh said. Both the Bridgeport and the UB
Stamford campus computer program have grown from
100 students in 1994 to approximately 550 this
year.
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