All registered teams have been given a practice account for
the BOSPRE Practice Facility.
Please use these to familiarize yourself with the programming
environment and contest procedures before you come.
IMPORTANT RULE: ACM is requires that each individual
team member be registered at the
ACM Programming Contest web site
BEFORE the team comes to BOSPRE 2006! This registration requires
the direct participation of the team member because of the detailed
information required, so coaches should not assume they can do
this registration by themselves at the last minute, or that they
can delay until contest day. You should do this registration as
soon as team members are decided, and you can change the team names
at the same time to one's picked by the team members.
MIT Building E53 Host Site for BOSPRE 2006
Each member of each team, BEFORE the team arrives at the contest, should
read the following help files.
Of course its OK to not do this
if you are less concerned about being competitive.
Here are postscript files for producing the handouts you will
be given at the contest:
help files
and
demos files.
These will be given to you when you check in
at the contest, but you are supposed to read the files listed
specifically above BEFORE you get to the contest.
Here is some info on Boston overnight
accommodations. These are in between Fitchburg and
MIT, and about 30-45 minutes from each by car.
To see which teams registered for BOSPRE 2006 and other Northeastern
sites go
here.
When you register for BOSPRE 2006 you will NOT be assigned a
hosting site. This will be done by the BOSPRE 2006 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 2006 will have multiple hosting sites, there
will be only one scoreboard and all teams at all BOSPRE 2006
hosting sites will be competing against each other.
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-coaches@deas.harvard.edu
The Northeastern North America Regional web page is
here.
The BOSPRE teams that advance to regionals will earn a wall plaque
for their school.
E.g., see last year's plaques.
BOSPRE 2006 is a cooperative effort between Fitchbug State College
and MIT,
which are the host sites, and Harvard,
which 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 2006; it will go elsewhere
(probably to WNEC).
The teams of the schools hosting the
contest will attend BOSPRE 2006, as hosting
schools will not be involved in
judging. Coaches from non-hosting schools are sometimes needed to help
at hosting schools during contest day.
