
Wellesley Science Center Host Site for BOSPRE 2014

ACM Boston Preliminary
(BOSPRE 2014)
Programming Contest Home Page

BOSPRE 2014 is over! See the scoreboard(pdf), description of scoreboard format included here, and problems(pdf).
Passwords have been sent to the team coaches so contestants can log back into their accounts and continue solving BOSPRE 2014 problems with the autojudge judging. This year we are treating this continuation of BOSPRE 2014 as a kind of relaxed, untimed contest in its own right, with its own public scoreboard:

BOSPRE 2014 Continuation Scoreboard

Although time is not relevant, you do get a few points off for each incorrect submission, but you also get the judge's first failed test case input/out returned to you on an incorrect submission.
In addition we are making available a regionals practice contest to any team that participated in a 2014 Northeast Region preliminary contest. Email walton@seas.harvard.edu if you want an account.
Judge's input, solutions, and output for BOSPRE 2014 are available to BOSPRE 2014 contestants on a private web page: a password has been sent to the team coaches.


UMass Boston Host Site for BOSPRE 2014

Practice facilities will be available throughout the school year. See here.
BOSPRE 2014 was a cooperative effort between Wellesley and UMass Boston, who hosted the teams, and Harvard, who provided judging and problems using the net.
We plan for BOSPRE to be held every year, with Harvard providing judging and computer support, and other schools hosting teams. A host site needs labs that can handle 6 or more teams (18 seats plus 6 terminals). To see what is involved look here. If you have further questions or want to serve as host for 2014, contact walton@seas.harvard.edu or the people at RIT.

The Northeastern Region of the ACM contest is run by Rochester Institute of Technology.
For those who may be interested, a different non-ACM programming contest is run by the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges in the Spring: see CCSCNE 2015.
The pre-contest BOSPRE 2014 web page is still hanging around: here.
Last year's BOSPRE 2013 web page is still hanging around: here.
To contact the managers of BOSPRE 2014, email bospre-adm@seas.harvard.edu