This year's contest will be held Saturday, February 14th at Loyola College's Columbia Graduate Center at 8890 McGaw Road in Howard County. The directions will guide you to the center. Registration and breakfast begin at 9:00am; the contest proper begins at 10:30am; please see the schedule of activites for more information.
We have reached our registration limit. Please send e-mail to Dr. James Glenn ([first-initial][last-name]@cs.loyola.edu) to be put on the waiting list.
We have an online registration system this year. Space is limited to 20 teams on a first-come-first-served basis. Schools may register one team of up to four students. After January 12, 2009, we will reopen registration for multiple teams if there is space available.
Thanks to Northrop Grumman for their continued support of the Loyola programming contest. Northrop Grumman is a leading employer of Computer Science and IT professionals in the Baltimore-Washington area and they employ many graduates of Loyola College.
Specific instructions on how to unpack the problem files and use Loyola's systems will be made available in the weeks before the contest. There will be a practice session before the contest proper.
Teams will have an opportunity before the contest begins to see how the development environment and submission system work. A simple practice problem as well as the first one from last year's contest will be available for testing.
Submissions and judging will be done automatically with a network-based system.