CPSSD Team wins Irish Intercollegiate Programming Contest

Top programming honours in Ireland once again goes to our CPSSD students, Conor Griffin, Darragh Griffin and Terry Bolt for winning the 2015 Irish Intercollegiate Programming Contest (IrlCPC) in UCC at the weekend.

The first year undergraduate CPSSD students build on their previous UKIEPC success from earlier this year to prove that School of Computing, DCU is attracting the best young programmers in the country to it's unique undergraduate degree.

Conor, Darragh and Terry held off 30 other collegiate teams from 10 different institutions around the country to win the competition with a score of 45 points out of 50. They posted a perfect score for 4 out of the 5 algorithmic problems with the 5 points they squeezed out of the 5th problem being the difference between the CPSSD team and the two runner-up teams from NUIM.

The competition ran over a 5 hour period on Saturday 28th March in UCC with the winners now being invited to the European stage of the IBM World ICPC competition in Linköping, Sweden in November. The competition is sponsored by Google and the Insight Research Centre, which the School of Computing co-hosts with UCC.

The three first years are graduates of the AIPO outreach program run by the School of Computing and sponsored by Fidelity Investments. Conor Griffin, while still studying at Ardscoil Ris, Limerick, made the AIPO team that represented Ireland at the prestigious International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in 2014 in Taipei, Taiwan where the team won a Bronze Medal.