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BOSPRE 2011 will be on Saturday Oct 15.
Host site details are here: Brown MIT
Brown, Providence, and Stonehill are going to Brown and all other teams to MIT. Assignments of teams to accounts are here.
LAST MINUTE NOTE: You will be using the new xsh command to spawn new windows. The old xcsh command which is documented in the handouts you will be given is obsolete, but xcsh without parameters will invoke xsh.
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 2011!


MIT Building 26 Host Site for BOSPRE 2011

Registration: Please register your teams for the contest at the ACM Programming Contest web site, and click on `Coach' under `Participate in Regionals Now'. 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 15. You may register a team that decides not to come PROVIDED you use the registration site to change the team name to `Please Delete' by 8am of the Saturday ONE WEEK BEFORE the contest.
To see which teams registered for BOSPRE 2011 and other Northeastern sites go here.
All registered teams will be given a practice account for the BOSPRE Practice Facility. Please use this to familiarize yourself with the programming environment and contest procedures before you come. Also please see the help files below before you come. It is also possible to use the practice facility without an account, by emailing problem solutions to the facility autojudge.
BOSPRE 2011 is a cooperative effort between Brown University and MIT, which are the host sites, and Harvard, which provides judging and problems using the net.
When you register for BOSPRE 2011 you will NOT be assigned a hosting site. This will be done by the BOSPRE 2011 managers the weekend before the contest. 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 2011 will have multiple hosting sites, there will be only one scoreboard and all teams at all BOSPRE 2011 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.
Note that this year your problem directories will contain a `sample.in' file that is a copy of the `Sample Input' from the problem description and a `sample.test' file that is a copy of the `Sample Output'. See help/solving for more details.
- 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.
The BOSPRE teams that advance to regionals will earn a wall plaque for their school. E.g., see plaques.
Last year's BOSPRE 2010 web page is still hanging around: here.
To contact the managers of BOSPRE 2011, email bospre-adm@seas.harvard.edu

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