Well, as of yesterday it’s official: Amphisbaena, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest team that I am a part of, will be representing UW-Madison at the 2006 ACM-ICPC World Finals! (See proof of our accepted status) That means a trip to San Antonio, TX, as well as some rather intense study of algorithms & programming strategy coming up next semester. The contest will be April 9-13 at the Hilton Palacio del Rio, and is sponsored by IBM and hosted by Baylor University. I expect the contest will be extremely tough, but on the upshot, it gives us a second chance to beat South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, which, if you recall from my earlier post, is my dad’s alma mater, and furthermore beat us at the regional competition.

Awesome!