Coding coda.It's a long way from Pasadena to Prague, but a team of Caltech computer buffs The name Buffs can mean:
Three students from the California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. recently competed in the 28th annual Association for Computing Machinery See ACM. Association for Computing Machinery - Association for Computing International Collegiate Programming Contest. The Caltech coders took seventh place. A trio of Russian students won the competition. "There's a lot of focus and intensity at the competition," said Ben Brantley Ben Brantley (born October 26, 1954) is the chief theatre critic of the New York Times. Born Benjamin D. Brantley in Durham, North Carolina, Brantley received a B.A. , a Caltech lecturer in computer science and the team's coach. The Caltech team, which included Jacob Burnim, Adam D'Angelo and Po-Shen Loh, managed to solve five problems and took home $2,000 in prize money. Brantley said the money is secondary, though. "Certainly," he said, "the prestige is the bigger prize." |
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