Finish Second Among U.S. Competitors, Tie for 13th Overall

The Dragons, Carnegie Mellon's team in the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, tied for 13th overall among 105 competitors and second among the 18 U.S. teams at the World Finals in Orlando, Fla.

China's Zhejiang University took first place in the competition, with the University of Michigan finishing second. The complete results are available online.

The Dragons- computer science majors Nathaniel Barshay, Tom Conerly and Si Young Oh- were coached by Danny Sleator, professor of computer science, along with Eugene Fink, senior systems scientist, and PhD students Richard Peng and Kevin Waugh. Fink said Sleator "put a lot of work in training the students to solve hard algorithmic problems, which gave our team an edge."

Travel and all other team expenses have been generously provided once again this year by IMC Financial Markets of Chicago.

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