Newsletter No. 5, May, 2005 |
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I was impressed by the support of the University and the local authorities regarding the organizing committee of IOI 2005. The organization of the annual IC and ISC meetings guaranteed the success of the IOI 2005. The facilities and the program of Nawy Sacz fulfills our expectations for the coming IOI 2005. We left from Nowy Sacz having the best memories. Spyros Bakoyiannis, Chairman IOI 2005.
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Poland, especially Nowy Sacz, is waiting for the best young computer scientists from around the world. The review meetings were very helpful for the IOI 2005 organizers and we promise that the IOI 2005 itself will be very well prepared. More detailed information on the event can be found on the IOI 2005 website www.ioi2005.pl Krzyszkof Diks, Chairman IOI 2005 Organizing Committee |
DP Photo Members of the 2005 International Committee (IC) meet in Nowy Sącz, April 20 -24, 2005 to review the preparations for hosting IOI 2005. |
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The complete ISC was
involved in the review meeting. We discussed task proposals, competition
rules, and contest facilities (rooms, software, hardware, web services). The preparations are in full swing, and the Polish are clearly working hard to make the competition at IOI 2005 a worthy challenge. In due time, you will find out more. Tom Verhoeff, The Netherlands |
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DP Photo A copy of the Liberty Bell stands at the entrance to WSB–NLU, a Business and Management learning center in Nowy Sącz, and the site of IOI 2005. |
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Dorms to be used for housing the competitors and the team leaders for IOI 2005. |
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DP Photo A typical dorm room. It was occupied at the time and kept very neat. |
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DP Photo Main Market Square in Krakow. Krakow is the city in Poland where teams and leaders will be met and transported by bus to Nowy Sącz. It is a 2.5 hour bus trip. |
Krakow is a beautiful city and is an ideal place to come a day or so before IOI 2005 to get your delegation over jet lag. I recommend you stay at Hotel Campanile. It is centrally located within walking distance of the old town. This is where all the action is and a great place to walk. I'm taking the US delegation there August 17, one day before the official arrival date August 18. The IOI 2005 bus will pick up delegations at this hotel on August 18. Don Piele, USA. http://www.staypoland.com/hotel_detail.aspx?hid=115 Photos taken at the April IC-ISC meeting in Nowy Sacz. |
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Office of the President | |||
At the first GA meeting in Poland, the Chairman will place the amendments to the Regulations governing this position before Delegation leaders for approval. Once the amendments are approved, the Chairman will formally announce that nominations (together with the required documentation) may be submitted to the Executive Director, to reach him at any time before the commencement of the GA meeting before competition day 2.
A nomination form which will cover the above requirements will be made available for all potential candidates.
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Distinguished Service Nominations | |||
What are we looking for? Candidates for recognition should have
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All nominations for recognition must reach the Executive Director lhartman@iafrica.com by not later than 15 June 2005. Nominations received will be considered by IC with recipients being announced at IOI2005. Previous recipients
2002 Stanislaw Waligorski 2003 Ries
Kock 2004 Prof. Pavel Azalov |
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Workshop Proposal | |||
The workshop will mainly deal with the
scientific content of computing contests. It aims at bringing people from
different contest communities together, so that experiences and ideas can be
shared. Several options for organizing such a workshop have been discussed:
It could be scheduled along with the
IOI 2006 review meeting in Merida, Mexico, or be a part of some relevant
conference. Wolfgang welcomes comments and suggestions; let him know whether
you would be interested in participating. Now, here is the text of his
proposal:
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The main goal of this workshop is to provide an effective forum for
discussing both different (possible) approaches to organizing computing
science contests and potential directions of development for IOI-alike
contests. The workshop itself is organized as scientific workshop:
participants are selected based on submissions of extended abstracts (there
may be invited speakers, however), and full or short papers shall be
compiled and published as workshop proceedings. The structure of the workshop is planned as follows: In a first part, participants will present their proposals, with plenty of room for discussion. In a second part, workshop participants are expected to work on concrete proposals for the future development of IOI-alike contests (short-term, mid-term, long-term), which shall be presented to their home communities for discussion. Last but not least, this workshop may initiate the establishment of the area of computing science contests as a scientific field. Organization and Program Committee: Ben Burton, Australia Martins Opmanis, Latvia Wolfgang Pohl, Germany Gordon Cormack, Canada Tom Verhoeff, Netherlands Wolfgang Pohl [pohl@bwinf.de]
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Linux Programming Environment on CD | |||
To help in this matter, the ITWG has started to develop a bootable Linux CD (a so-called live CD) with the IOI environment and tools. With such a CD, it is possible to try out the IOI programming environment without a need to make installations on one's own computer. An demo version of the CD was presented at the IC and ISC meeting in Poland in April. Hopefully after a couple of improvements, the ITWG will be able to release a version of the CD a couple of months ahead of the IOI in Poland. The possible ways to deliver the CD include a mailing to the team leaders and making an image available in the Internet. It should be noted that a similar CD can not be made available for Windows as Windows is not free software. |
Many further technical developments
(like extra tools etc.) are also harder, because everything needs to be
produced on both platforms, and potentially for all languages. Also, the
introduction of a new language maybe becomes somehow feasible, if there is
only one operating system that needs to be taken into account. With the help
of the practice CD, going for a Linux-only environment should not be a
problem and then new ways to improve the competition may become available.
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