1998 ACM East Central Programming Contest --
Meet the Judges

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All of our judges are past contestants at the finals. In addition to giving judgements during the contest, the judges are responsible for the selection of the contest problems, writing sample solutions and creating test input. Some of the problems will be their creations; others were suggested by the regional contest director (Ray Sepeta) and coaches from non-Waterloo universities.

JudgeFinalsResearch Interests
Michael Van Biesbrouck
Chief Judge
1996 (Third) Algorithms & Data Structures
Theory of Computation
Functional Languages
Ed Dengler 1993 (Seventh) Computer Graphics
``I'm a generalist ... I know less and less about more and more.''
Howard Cheng 1998 (Eighth) Symbolic Computation
Image Processing
Derek Kisman 1997 (Fifth)
1998 (Third)
??? (Still an undergrad)
Beating entire regions in programming contests (competing on his own)
Ian Goldberg
Celebrity Judge
(Not involved in the problem set)
1993 (Seventh)
1994 (First)
Cryptograpy
Computer Security