
Tufts Halligan Hall Host Site for BOSPRE 2010

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Assignments of teams to ACCOUNTS are here.
The demos/javaio/javaio.java file has been upgraded.

BOSPRE 2010 will be on Saturday Oct 16.
Just to recall, last year the BOSPRE computers names and hardware changed. The name changes where:
method1.deas.harvard.edu ===> problems1.seas.harvard.edu
method2.deas.harvard.edu ===> problems2.seas.harvard.edu
The new hardware is much faster, has bigger RAM, and is virtual.
IMPORTANT RULE: ACM requires that each individual team member have COMPLETED their registration at the ACM Programming Contest web site BEFORE the team comes to BOSPRE 2010!
Host site details are here: Tufts UMass Boston Wellesley


UMass Boston Host Site for BOSPRE 2010

Registration: Please register your teams for the contest at the ACM Programming Contest web site, and click on `Coach' under `Regionals 2010 Start Here'. You do NOT need to know your team members to register your teams, nor do you need to have choosen final team names (they can be changed). You should register early to get on our mailing list and get practice accounts. You WILL need to have your student team members register individually BEFORE Oct 16.
To see which teams registered for BOSPRE 2010 and other Northeastern sites go here.


Wellesley Science Center Host Site for BOSPRE 2010

We plan for BOSPRE to be held every year by schools in the Boston area. Harvard is willing to provide problems and judging, but other schools must provide the host sites.
When you register for BOSPRE 2010 you will NOT be assigned a hosting site. This will be done by the BOSPRE 2010 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 2010 will have multiple hosting sites, there will be only one scoreboard and all teams at all BOSPRE 2010 hosting sites will be competing against each other.
There will be $75 per team registration fee. It needs to be high enough so the team and coach can be well feed by a caterer.

Due to funding limitations caused by the current recession the Harvard teams will attend BOSPRE (to save travel money). To avoid conflict of interest, Bob Walton will not coach the Harvard teams for BOSPRE (but will for the Regionals). To provide approprate practice for everyone who wants it, the last 2 (or 3 if requested) BOSPRE contests will be made available as practice contests to ALL teams registered for BOSPRE. Your coach will be sent account names and passwords for these practice contests when they are available.
There is a BOSPRE Practice Facility that is up year-round.
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.
- this_contest
- help/formal_contest
- help/xterminals This applies to some host sites but not others.
- help/solving
- help/input
- help/output
- help/print
- demos/count/README
- demos/count/count.txt
- demos/count/Makefile
- demos/count/count.in
- demos/count/count.test
- One of the solutions to the demo, choosing from
- help/scores
- help/scoreboard
- help/c++ if you are programming in C++.
- help/java and demos/javaio/javaio.java if you are programming in JAVA.
- help/advice
Note it is very desirable to read some of the following:
Here are pdf 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.
These and similar `advanced' help and demo files are available online here and in the pdf files: advanced_help files and advanced_demos files.
Here is some info on Boston overnight accommodations.
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-people@seas.harvard.edu
The Northeastern North America Regional web page is here.
Last year's BOSPRE 2009 web page is still hanging around: here.
To contact the managers of BOSPRE 2010, email bospre-adm@seas.harvard.edu
For the curious, the Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) changed its name to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) a few years ago. The old name `deas' can still be used in place of `seas' for some applications (e.g. email).

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