Contact: Phil Hearn
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State student teams won the top two places in an interstate computer software programming competition hosted recently by the department of computer science and engineering.
Two teams from the main campus in Starkville and two representing the University of South Alabama were given a set of eight problems to solve as quickly as possible within a time limit of four hours and 15 minutes. Each team was composed of up to three undergraduate students.
MSU's first-place team included junior software engineering major Jacob McIntosh of Atoka, Tenn., senior computer engineering major Harry Lam of Gulfport and senior computer science major Brian Thomas of Clinton.
MSU's second-place team included sophomore electrical engineering major Matthew Knight of Madison and freshman computer science major Russell Winstead of Hattiesburg.
"We were pleased with the performance of the MSU teams," said programming coach Yoginder Dandass, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering. "Our team that placed second did so despite having only two members, although each team is allowed three members."
The event was sponsored by the CSE department, a part of the Bagley College of Engineering, and BearingPoint, a global consulting company with an office in Hattiesburg. BearingPoint provided three Sony Playstation Portables, three iPod Nanos and three $50 Amazon.com gift certificates for the top three teams.
For more information, contact Courtney Thompson at (662) 325-0151 or cthompson@engr.msstate.edu.
LOCAL EDITORS:
Jacob W. McIntosh is the son of Wallace Harold and Lisa Ranee McIntosh.
Harry Lam is the son of Duc Lam and Myhong Vo.
Brian Thomas is the son of James and Sheila Thomas.
Matthew Knight is the son of Charles Knight of Ridgeland and Stacey Reeves of Madison.
Russell Norman Winstead is the son of Ricky and Melinda Winstead.