Under the guidance of EECS Professor and CSAIL member Martin Rinard, the three member team from MIT including freshman Bohua Zhan, Andrew Lutomirski, graduate student in physics, and Xuancheng Shao, junior in EECS and mathematics won second place in the 32nd annual IBM sponsored Association for Computing Machinery, ACM, International Computer Programming Contest, ICPC, held in Albert Canada. Student coaches included Jelani Nelson, graduate student in EECS/CSAIL (advisor EECS Professor Eric Demaine), Ivaylo Riskov, EECS senior, and Zoran Dzunic, EECS/CSAIL graduate student (advisor EECS Professor Regina Barzilay). Read more:

• IBM Student Portal, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
• ACM ICPC2008 website
• MIT News Office, April 11, 2008 article, "MIT crowned regional champs in battle of brains."