ACM ICPC Dhaka Site in Encyclopedia

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (abbreviated as ACM-ICPC or just ICPC) is an annual multi-tiered competition among the universities of the world. There are thirteen different sites in Asia that host Asia Regional Final and Dhaka is one of them. Each year winner of the Asia Regional Final Dhaka Site Contest advances to the ACM-ICPC World Final. Like other sites of ICPC, Dhaka site contest is also sponsored by IBM and operated under the auspices of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

History

ACM ICPC Dhaka site contest started in 1997 with the initiative of Professor A. L. Haque of North South University (NSU).^[1]^[2] Its first event was held on 18 November 1997 with the participation of 18 teams from 11 institutions. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology - BUET Bengal Tigers team became the champion and moved to the world final which was held on 28 February 1998 at Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Champion BUET team of Suman Kumar Nath (now at Microsoft Research), Rezaul Alam Chowdhury (UT Austin) and Tarique Mesbaul Islam (Waterloo) occupied 24th position in the world final among 54 teams tying with Stanford University.^[3]^[4]^[5] Same year, NSU team received a wild card for being the host of the Dhaka site regional contest and participated in the world final.^[3]

Past events

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Dhaka site local teams in the world final

Each year at least one local team from Dhaka site takes part in the world final either as the regional champion or by wild card. On few occasions Dhaka site local teams made it by winning ACM ICPC Kanpur site regional.^[22] In 2005, Fudan University became champion at two different sites and withdrawn their championship from Dhaka site. As a result, 2nd ranked team, Dhaka University who was supposed to get a wild card got the direct entry to the world final and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology got the wild card. Summary of all the Dhaka site local team results in the world final are illustrated in the following table^[23]^[24]:

World Final	Date	Place	University	Team Name	Contestant	Result	Entry
22nd	Feb 28, 1998	Atlanta, Georgia	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	Bengal Tigers	Suman Kumar Nath, Rezaul Alam Chowdhury, Tarique Mesbaul Islam	24th	Dhaka site champion
North South University	NSU Dream	Tarique Zaman Chowdhury, Mehrin Shahed, Salman Ahmed Awan	H.M.	Dhaka site wild card
23rd	April 12, 1999	Eindhoven, the Netherlands	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	The Balloon Counters	Rezaul Alam Chowdhury, Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat, Mehedy Masood, Farah Farzana	H.M.	Dhaka site champion
24th	March 18, 2000	Orlando, Florida	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	BUET Backtrackers	Mustaq Ahmed, Munirul Abedin, M Rubaiyat Ferdous Jewel	11th	Kanpur site champion
25th	March 10, 2001	Vancouver, Canada	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	BUET Loopers	Mustaq Ahmed, Munirul Abedin, Abdullah Al Mahmud	29th	Kanpur site champion
26th	March 23, 2002	Honolulu, Hawaii	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	BUET Ackermanns	Md Kamruzzaman, Abdullah Al Mahmud, Mushfiqur Rouf	H.M	Dhaka site champion
American International University - Bangladesh	AIUB-A	Adib Hasan Manob, Md. Mahabub Alam, Md. Nurul Amin	H.M.	Kanpur site Runners Up
27th	March 25, 2003	Beverly Hills, California	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	BUET Loopers	Asif-ul Haque, Mehedi Bakht, Md Saifur Rahman	H.M	Dhaka site champion
28th	March 31, 2004	Prague, Czech Republic	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	BUET Phonix	Asif-ul Haque, Mehedi Bakht, Md Saifur Rahman	27th	Dhaka site wild card
29th	April 16, 2005	Shanghai, China	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	BUET Explorer	Mushfiqur Rouf, Abdullah Al Mahmud, Manzurur Rahman Khan	29th	Dhaka site wild card
30th	April 12, 2006	San Antonio, Texas	University of Dhaka	DU Gryffindor^[25] ^[26]	Quazi Sarfaraz Hussain, Ariful Islam Siddiqi, Mainul Islam	H.M.	Dhaka site direct entry
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	BUET BUET Exceed	Istiaque Ahmed, Manzurur Khan, Omar Haider	39th	Dhaka site wild card
31st	March 15, 2007	Tokyo, Japan	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	BUET xC33d	Istiaque Ahmed, Sabbir Yousuf Sanny, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman	H.M.	Dhaka site wild card
32nd	April 9, 2008	Banff, Canada	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	BUET Sprinter	Sabbir Yousuf Sanny, Mahbubul Hasan, Shahriar Rouf	31st	Dhaka site champion
East West University	EWU Dream of Twilight	Sohel Hafiz, Mahbub Mozadded, Md. Arifuzzaman Arif	H.M.	Dhaka site wild card
33rd	April 21, 2009	Stockholm, Sweden	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	BUET Falcon	Mahbubul Hasan, Shahriar Rouf, Tanaeem M. Moosa	34th	Dhaka site Runner-up
University of Dhaka	DU Dark Knights	Syed Zubair Hossain, Jane Alam Jan, Iqram Mahmud	49th	Kanpur site Runner-up
North South University	NSU ARCTURUS	Samee Zahur, M. Mustafijur Rahman Faysal, Md. Ameer Hamza	H.M.	Kuala Lumpur site
34rd	February 5, 2010	Harbin, China	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	BUET Rand Ecliptic	Tanaeem M. Moosa, Tasnim Imran Sunny, Muntasir Mashuq	36th	Dhaka site Runner-up
35th	May 30, 2011	Orlando, Florida	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	BUET Annihilator	Tasnim Imran Sunny, Muntasir Mashuq, Anindya Das	H.M.	Dhaka site Champion
36th	May 18, 2012	Warsaw, Poland	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	BUET .oO	Md. Enzam Hossain, F. A. Rezaur Rahman Chowdhury, Mir Wasi Ahmed ^[27]	Honorable Mention ^[28]	Dhaka site Champion
36th	May 18, 2012	Warsaw, Poland	Shahjalal University of Science and Technology	SUST_PALINDROME	Forhad Ahmed, Baker Mohammad Anas, Md. Maksud Hossain^[27]	Honorable Mention ^[29]	Dhaka site Runnersup

ACM ICPC Dhaka site hosts

Host Universities

Most Recent event

ACM ICPC Dhaka site 2011 contest was held at the new campus of North South University at Bashundhara on 18 19 November 2011. Bangladesh University of Engineering and technology(BUET) won the contest and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology(SUST) became the runner up. Both champion and runner up team solved same number of problem and qualified for the world finals which took place in Poland in May 2012. This is the first time Shahjalal University of Science & Technology is going to participate in finals.