1999 ACM East Central Programming Contest --
Meet the Judges

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Many 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. The problems are created by the judges.

JudgeFinalsResearch Interests
Howard Cheng
Chief Judge
1998 (Eighth) Symbolic Computation
Image Processing
John Bonomo (Westminster College) n/a Genetic Algorithms
Computer Science Education
Charlie Clarke 1998 (University of Toronto Coach) Information Storage and Retrieval
Software Tools and Programming Languages
Distributed Applications
Ed Dengler 1993 (Seventh) Computer Graphics
``I'm a generalist ... I know less and less about more and more.''
Derek Kisman 1997 (Fifth)
1998 (Third)
??? (Still an undergrad)
Beating entire regions in programming contests (competing on his own)
Viet-Trung Luu 1997 (Fifth)
1999 (First)
??? (Still an undergrad)