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Raul Garcia Hemonnet
The Rey Juan Carlos University will host the 2020 edition of the 'Ada Byron' competitive programming contest. This event has been held for several years, first at the Complutense University of Madrid and later at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where its regional phase took place this year.
'Ada Byron' is the main university competition for competitive programming. Students from the six public universities of the Community of Madrid will participate in the phase to be held at the URJC.
For Jesús Sánchez-Oro, professor at the Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering and coordinator of competitive programming at the URJC, “hosting an event of these characteristics is a great opportunity to promote this type of programming”. In addition, he has pointed out "it is an opportunity to show that we can play a great role by organizing a competition like this".
The URJC, third classified
The 'StupidJ' team, made up of students Isaac Lozano Osorio, Raúl Martín Santamaría and Jakub Jan Luczyn, all 3rd and 4th graders, came in third place in the tournament held this weekend at the Autonomous University. First and second place went to student teams from the Complutense University of Madrid.
In addition, in the category of 1st year students “we came in second place with the 'Saving Sebastian' team”, says Jesús Sánchez. This team was made up of Francisco Tórtola Vivo, Sergio Salazar Cárdenas and Cristian Pérez Corral.
The URJC participated with 8 teams (six from 3rd-4th, one from 2nd and one from 1st). In total, in this edition, 34 teams participated competing to solve 10 algorithm problems.
The Ada Byron contest takes its name from the figure of the mathematician Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), (born Byron), one of the main figures in the history of computing, considered the first computer programmer.