CUHK Team Ranked 20^th in ACM World Final

Our CUHK CSE team is ranked 20th among 100 teams from all over the world in the recent ACM world finals. This is our best performance in recent years. The champion is again from St. Petersburg, and Tsinghua ranked 2nd.

Ranking: http://cm2prod.baylor.edu/ICPCWiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Results%20World%20Final...

Play Your Own Games

The Computer Game Technology Centre being set up back in 2004, aims as a supporting laboratory for our fellow students taking game development related courses, as well as projects involving game technology research.

Special columns: Exchange Students

As a CUHK student, you have the opportunity to exchange to overseas universities or host foreign exchange students. In this departmental newsletter series, we introduce you three exchange students, Raul (incoming exchange student), Kwan Yeung and Yat Fai (outgoing exchange students). They write up their own feeling of experiencing foreign cultures. If you are interested, don’t hesitate and ask our general office for more information on CUHK exchange programme.

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The ACM computer programming contest is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world. This year, it has attracted 6,700 teams representing 1,821 universities in 83 countries. Only 100 teams will advance to the World Finals. Our department has sent 6 teams to compete in 4 Asian regional contests to qualify for the World Finals.

New Apple Mac

The department has purchased 12 Mac machines which will be installed in the laboratory 904 in early November. In the past, we have many non-Windows platform machines, such as NeXT, Sun Solaris and SGI. Due to the domainance of Windows platform, many of them have been phased out. With these Mac machines, students not only can have a touch on the the latest technology, but also the opportunity to be exposed to other architectures and OS.

Awards

Mr. Chen Jiansheng (co-author with Prof. Y. S. Moon) won the second Prize of Motorola Best Student Paper in the IAPR International Conference on Biometrics 2006. The title of the paper is “A Statistical Evaluation Model for Minutiae-based Automatic Fingerprint”.