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ACM ICPC 2006 Asia Region - Coimbatore Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore Regional Contest Cookbook ACM ICPC 2006 Asia Region Coimbatore - Regional Contest Cookbook CONTENTS About Amrita University --- 3 ACM ICPC 2005 At Amrita --- 8 ACM ICPC 2006 œ Preliminary Contest --- 10 Regional Contest Schedule --- 11 How to reach Coimbatore --- 13 How to reach Amrita University --- 18 Contest Environment --- 19 Contest Rules --- 20 Contact Details --- 22 Tourist Attractions --- 23 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore 2 ACM ICPC 2006 Asia Region Coimbatore - Regional Contest Cookbook Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University) Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University) is one of the youngest group of higher educational institutions in India to be conferred the —University“ status under —Section 3 of UGC Act 1956“ by the Government of India and the first to have a multi-disciplinary, multi- campus at the outset. With campuses at Coimbatore, Amritapuri, Kochi, Bangalore and Mysore, Amrita University is emerging as one of the fastest growing institutions of higher learning in the country. The university, which is managed by Mata Amritanandamayi Math, offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes in Engineering, Business, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Journalism, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Information Technology, Arts and Sciences, Health Sciences, Education, Microbiology, Hospital Management, Visual Media Studies and Ayurveda. Satguru Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (AMMA), one of the foremost humanitarian leaders in the world today, is the Chancellor of the University. (Website Address of Mata Amritanandamayi Math: http://www.amritapuri.org) The headquarters of the university is at Ettimadai, Coimbatore. This beautiful lush green campus of over 400 acres of area nestled along the Western Ghats range, houses schools of engineering, business & journalism in addition to centers of excellence in Computational Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Cyber security. (Website Address of Amrita University: http://www.amrita.edu) Research With strong support from both industry and government, Amrita University has established several centers of excellence. Amrita University is also actively pursuing research projects of national importance with major Indian laboratories and agencies like Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), Department of Science and Technology (DST) œ Govt of India, Department of Biotechnology, Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), Ministry of Information Technology, Media Lab Asia, Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Department of Indian System of Medicine and Homeopathy, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Ministry of Environment and Forests, National Medicinal Plants Board, DST-Kerala and also with international industry leaders like Microsoft, Oracle, Qualcomm, Cisco, Intel, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, Konkan Railways, Cognizant, Hewlett Packard India, Cadence Design Systems, MDS Pharma, Magma Design and Automation, Mascon Global etc. Various projects in areas as diverse as Telemedicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore 3 ACM ICPC 2006 Asia Region Coimbatore - Regional Contest Cookbook Hospital Information Systems, Digital Health, Biostatistics, Molecular Medicine, Medical Informatics, Rheumatic Fever and Heart Diseases, Oncology, Stem Cells, Insulin Pump, VLSI, Microelectronics, Polymer Processing, Cyber security, Nanobiomedical Technology, Wavelets, Cryptography, Polymer and Nanocomposite technology, Nanosurface bio-engineering, Next generation intelligent transportation Systems, Image Processing, Telematics, Wireless technologies, Database technology, Video-conferencing, Welding technology, Support Vector Machines, Plagiarism Detection and Sensors are being pursued by researchers and scientists. Amrita also hosts one of the largest satellite E-learning and Telemedicine networks in India. (http://www.amrita.edu/research/index.htm) International Alliances Indo-US Initiative in Higher Education and Research Amrita University has taken a lead role in implementing the path-breaking Indo-US Inter- university Collaborative Initiative in Higher Education and Research using EDUSAT. More than twenty American universities, many of whom are ranked among the best universities of the world including Harvard, Princeton, Purdue, Yale, Georgia Institute of Technology, Universities of Massachusetts -Amherst, Washington, Texas - Austin, Illinois œ Urbana Champaign, Wisconsin-Madison, North Dakota, Maryland, Michigan and University of California campuses at Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles and Santa Cruz, Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, Cornell University œ Ithaca and State University of New York - Buffalo are part of this historic agreement along with Indian institutions led by Amrita University, ISRO, and Government of India‘s Department of Science and Technology (DST). This Indo-US E-learning Network will enhance science and engineering education in India using the new satellite e-learning network (EDUSAT), launched by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to transmit educational programs to multiple educational institutions throughout India. Three of the leading technology companies in the world, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Cadence are funding this initiative. These American universities will depute their reputed faculty to teach and guide research to a large population of Indian students at hundreds of colleges and universities in India via Amrita University‘s E-learning setup and ISRO‘s Educational satellite (EDUSAT). The program will focus on a broad number of areas: engineering and computer science, information and communication technologies, materials science, biotechnology and bioinformatics, nanotechnology, medical sciences, management sciences and other areas. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore 4 ACM ICPC 2006 Asia Region Coimbatore - Regional Contest Cookbook As part of this historic agreement, several distinguished academic leaders like Dr. Maria Klawe, Dean of Engineering, Princeton University; Dr. Satish Tripathy, Provost of State University of New York at Buffalo; Dr. Venky Narayanamurthy, Dean of Harvard University; Dr. Gretchen Kalonji, Office of the President, University of California; Dr. Frieder Seible, Dean of Engineering at University of California, San Diego have visited India. Three Leading American professors Dr. N. Narayana Rao and Dr. Jose Schutt-Aine from University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign and Dr. Ramalingam Sridhar from State University of New York œ Buffalo have taken courses in Electromagnetics, Solid State Devices and Advanced Networking in 2006. The classes were beamed to around 40 leading Indian colleges and universities. (http://www.amrita.edu/indous) Indo-European Research Initiatives Wireless Sensor Network œ WINSOC Consortium Amrita University has joined the Indo-European initiative in Wireless Sensor Networks - WINSOC (Wireless Sensor Networks with Self-Organization Capabilities for Critical and Emergency Applications consortium). The WINSOC consortium consists of eleven organizations from seven countries. The 11 partners are: SCOM, DUNE, SAP, INFO, EPFL, CCSS, UPC, ICOM, CEA, AMRITA, and ANTRIX Each of the partners has expertise in various areas. The partners are from industry, research institutes and universities. Antrix (ISRO) and Amrita are the only organizations from India. Amrita will develop a wireless sensor network, which will be able to predict environmental risks like landslide. The data collected from the wireless sensors has to be fed through the VRC network to a remote station. The data has to be analyzed and the warning has to be sent accordingly. Tie-up with Milano University, Italy and Technical University of Munich, Germany Amrita University is also pursuing various projects with foreign universities like Milano University, Italy in Autonomous Bio-inspired robots and in Cyber security with Technical University of Munich, Germany. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore 5 ACM ICPC 2006 Asia Region Coimbatore - Regional Contest Cookbook Virtual Campus Amrita University has the unique distinction of being India‘s first of its kind œ fully interactive, multi-disciplinary, multi-media, virtual campus without geographical limitations linking all its campuses. The satellite network for education and research that links all the campuses of the university has been enabled through a unique Public-Private-Academia Partnership linking the core competences of Amrita University, ISRO and Cognizant Technology Solutions. Cadence Design Systems, one of the largest Electronic Design and Automation (EDA) companies in the world is a leading technology partner in this venture. The satellite network has facilitated leading experts from around the world like Dr. G. Madhavan Nair, ISRO Chairman; Mr. S. Ramadorai, Tata Consultancy Service CEO; Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-Founder of Infosys Technologies; Dr. Bharat Jayaraman, Chair of Computer Science, State University or New York, Buffalo, USA; Mr. A. Bhaskarnarayana, Indian National Satellite System, ISRO, Bangalore; Mr. N. Murali, JMD of the Hindu; Mr. Swapan Dasgupta, noted columnist and TV personality and Intel India Chief, Mr. Ketan Sampath to have academic interaction Live from a single Centre to students, academicians and researchers at other campuses. It has enabled an integration and synergy at Amrita campuses œ between Engineering,