ACM Boston Preliminary (BOSPRE 2003) Programming Contest Home Page
- BOSPRE 2003 is coming soon! Its date is Saturday Oct 25.
- Assignments of teams to sites has been made. The site non-specific
schedule and assignments of teams to locations
is here.
- Practice accounts are available and info has been emailed to
the coaches. If you have problems or have not received an
account, contact walton@deas.harvard.edu.
- Please make some use of the practice accounts BEFORE you come to the
contest, so you will be familiar with contest procedures. Please read
the help files below BEFORE you come. Of course its OK to not do this
if you are less concerned about being competitive.
- Final information for teams going to Wellesley
is here.
Recheck this the day before the contest.
- Final information for teams going to MIT
is here.
Recheck this the day before the contest.
- There will be a $50 per team registration fee, at both Wellesley
College and MIT.
- To see which teams registered for BOSPRE 2003 and other Northeastern
sites go
here.
- BOSPRE 2003 is a cooperative effort between Wellesley College and
MIT, who host the teams, and Harvard, who provides judging and
problems using the net. Since Harvard provides the judging,
in order to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest,
Harvard will not attend BOSPRE 2003 (it will go to WNEC).
- The Northeastern Region of the ACM contest is run by
Westfield State College.
- You register for BOSPRE at the
ACM Programming Contest web site.
- When you register for BOSPRE 2003 you will NOT be assigned a
hosting site. This will be done by the BOSPRE 2003 managers much later.
Some issues are: (1) some hosting sites are easier for some teams to
drive to than other sites, (2) some teams may be able to travel by
subway or bus to some sites but not others, and (3) two teams from
the same school go to the same hosting site.
- Although BOSPRE 2003 will have multiple hosting sites, there
will be only one scoreboard and all teams at all BOSPRE 2003
hosting sites will be competing against each other.
- The Harvard team will not be at BOSPRE 2003 in order to avoid
conflict of interest, but the teams of the schools hosting the
contest will attend as those schools will not be involved in
judging. Coaches from non-hosting schools are sometimes needed to help
at hosting schools during contest day.
- Each member of each team, BEFORE the team arrives at the contest, must
read the following:
Note it is very desirable to read
Here are postscript files for producing printouts of all available
help files
and
demos files, including those listed
above. These printouts will be given to you when you check in
at the contest, but you are supposed to read the above BEFORE
you get to the contest.
- No activities are planned for team coaches, but if any want
to plan something, e.g., lunch, they can email all the BOSPRE
team coaches at once at the mail drop
bospre-teams@deas.harvard.edu
- Here is info on Boston overnight accommodations.
- The BOSPRE teams that advance to regionals will earn a wall plaque
for their school.
E.g., see last year's plaques.
- Last year's BOSPRE 2002 web page is still hanging around:
here.
- To contact the managers of BOSPRE 2003, email
bospre@deas.harvard.edu