To see which teams registered for BOSPRE 2008 and other Northeastern
sites go
here, then click on North America in the map under
`Regional Contest Info Finder', then on `Northeastern',
then on `BOSPRE' (toward the bottom of the page),
and then on `Reservations'. (The new ACM software calculates
web pages dynamically so there is no direct persistant link
to the BOSPRE reservations.)
Center for Information Technology Brown University Host Site for BOSPRE 2008
BOSPRE 2008 is a cooperative effort between Tufts
University and Brown University, which are the host sites, and Harvard,
which provides judging and problems using the net.
Since Harvard provides the judging,
in order to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest,
Harvard will not attend BOSPRE 2008; it will go elsewhere
(probably to WNEC).
The teams of the schools hosting the
contest will attend BOSPRE 2008, as hosting
schools will not be involved in
judging. Coaches from non-hosting schools are sometimes needed to help
at hosting schools during contest day.
Registration: Please register your teams for the contest at the
ACM Programming Contest web site, and click on `Sign Up for ICPC'
under `Register for Regionals Now'.
You do NOT need to know your team members to register your teams,
nor do you need to have choosen final team names (they can be changed).
You should register early to get on our mailing list and get
practice accounts. You WILL need to have your student team members
register individually BEFORE Oct 18 (i.e., before BOSPRE 2008).
When you register for BOSPRE 2008 you will NOT be assigned a
hosting site. This will be done by the BOSPRE 2008 managers much later.
Some issues are: (1) some hosting sites are easier for some teams to
drive to than other sites, (2) some teams may be able to travel by
subway or bus to some sites but not others, and (3) two teams from
the same school go to the same hosting site.
Although BOSPRE 2008 will have multiple hosting sites, there
will be only one scoreboard and all teams at all BOSPRE 2008
hosting sites will be competing against each other.
All registered teams will be given a practice account for
the BOSPRE Practice Facility.
Please use these to familiarize yourself with the programming
environment and contest procedures before you come.
It is also possible to use the practice facility without an account,
by emailing problem solutions to the facility autojudge.
IMPORTANT RULE: ACM is requires that each individual
team member be registered at the
ACM Programming Contest web site
BEFORE the team comes to BOSPRE 2008! This registration requires
the direct participation of the team member because of the detailed
information required, so coaches should not assume they can do
this registration by themselves at the last minute, or that they
can delay until contest day. You should do this registration as
soon as team members are decided, and you can change the team names
at the same time to one's picked by the team members.
There will be $75 per team registration fee. Note this has been
raised from the previous $50 which was in effect until 2007.
It needs to be high enough so the team and coach
can be well feed by a caterer.
Each member of each team, BEFORE the team arrives at the contest, should
read the following help files.
Of course its OK to not do this
if you are less concerned about being competitive.
Here are postscript files for producing the handouts you will
be given at the contest:
help files(Does not Yet Exist)
and
demos files(Does not Yet Exist).
These will be given to you when you check in
at the contest, but you are supposed to read the files listed
specifically above BEFORE you get to the contest.
No activities are planned for team coaches, but if any want
to plan something, e.g., lunch, they can email all the BOSPRE
team coaches at once at the mail drop
bospre-people@seas.harvard.edu
The Northeastern North America Regional web page is
here.
The BOSPRE teams that advance to regionals will earn a wall plaque
for their school.
E.g., see last year's plaques.
For the curious, the Harvard Division of Engineering and
Applied Sciences (DEAS) has changed its name to the School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), so for the next
several years `seas' and `deas' can be use interchangeably.
