Maxwell Dworkin from across Oxford Street

BOSPRE 2000 Home Page

This is the now out of date web page for BOSPRE 2000, which has already been held. This page will be kept around until BOSPRE 2001 gets going, just in case people want to find some information from this page.
NOTE: Pages referenced from this page may be updated and differ from what they were during BOSPRE 2000 itself.

Please print out these contest help pages and read them before you arrive at the contest.
If you need parking go here IMMEDIATELY.
If you need overnight accommodations go here IMMEDIATELY.
A list of recent changes to BOSPRE pages.
The contest date is Saturday Oct 21, 2000.
The contest site is the ground floor and basement of the Maxwell-Dworkin building at Harvard.
There will be a $50 registration fee payable upon arrival at the contest.
To register for the contest go to the ACM Programming Contest Home Page and click on `Registration'.
To see which teams have registered for this and other Northeastern sites go here.
The Northeastern Region of the ACM contest is run by Westfield State College.
The final schedule is:
- 8:30 - 9:45am: checkin, get assigned rooms and terminals, practice at your terminal using your contest account. (8:30am - 9am we will be setting up so expect delays if you are this early.)
- 9:45am - 9:55am: VERY short meeting solely to introduce the people running the contest and answer questions. In theory, everything you really need to know will be in the handouts which are in this page and the contest help pages.
- 9:55am - 10:00am Teams go to their terminals.
- 10:00am - 3:00pm the contest proper. The contest will start with the problems being handed out to the contestants at their terminals at 10:00am sharp.
- about noon: catered lunch for the contestants.
- noon: restaurant lunch for the coaches (probably NOT Chinese).
- 3:30pm - 4:00pm final meeting to announce winners.
Threre is a practice facility. Your coach will have been emailed a password for a practice account, one per team. Please use this before the contest day. To access these accounts you must have ssh, secure shell. Only SSH1 is required. Some ssh web sites are:
- Commercial SSH with free licenses for limited use
- Free SSH for MS windows
Parking. If you want to park your car(s) at Harvard send email BY OCT 19 indicating the number of cars to acram@deas.harvard.edu. Expect email confirmation. One car per team is free; other cars are $5. When you arrive you will be given a green parking permit. Travel directions follow.
Travel directions are here.
If you have any special needs (e.g., dietary), questions, or comments please mail
bospre<hc3@deas.harvard.edu>
This BOSPRE is being run by Harvard and MIT jointly. Harvard is providing the facilities and judging, MIT the problems. In order to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest, Harvard and MIT teams will not attend BOSPRE (they are going to Worcester). We plan for BOSPRE to be held every year (in ADDITION to Worcester) by schools in the Boston area. Harvard is willing to do half the work in any given year for the next few years, but other schools must do the other half.