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Meeting Summary – 1/30/12
by MG Chi on January 31, 2012
Today we started the meeting by announcing the top scorers of first semester. Congratulations to the following people: 1st place: James Hong 2nd place: Tony Jiang 3rd place: Qingqi Zeng 4th place: Steven Hao 5th place: Julia Huang There were (…)
Meeting Summary – 1/23/12
by MG Chi on January 23, 2012
Today the officer team went over last meeting’s PotW(thanks Jimmy!) and some USACO problems from past two rounds; our explanations can be found here. There is no PotW this week since we will announce the top scorers of first semester (…)
Meeting Summary – 1/9/12
by Jack Li on January 9, 2012
Welcome to a new semester of school and, of course, of CS Club! Today we discussed one possible solution to the Problem of the Week (the problem actually lasted an entire month), and presented Dijkstra’s Algorithm. The new Problem of (…)
Meeting Summary – 12/5/11
by MG Chi on December 6, 2011
As the last meeting of this semester, today’s meeting was brief. We went over the solution to last week’s Problem of the Week(credits to Qingqi), and introduced the new problem, which is as follows: Farmer John wants to create a (…)
Meeting Summary – 11/28/11
by MG Chi on November 28, 2011
In today’s meeting, we went over last week’s PotW solution and a couple searching algorithms. We focused mainly on depth-first search(DFS) and breadth-first search(BFS). Regarding these search algorithms and graph theory, more information and pseudocode can be found in our (…)
Meeting Summary – 11/21/11
by Jack Li on November 21, 2011
The November USACO is over, and preliminary results have been released! Good job to everyone who participated! In today’s meeting, we went over solutions to one bronze, one silver, and one gold division problem from the last USACO. We also (…)
Meeting Summary – 11/14/11
by Jack Li on November 14, 2011
In today’s meeting, we gave a brief introduction to artificial intelligence and some of its many applications, and also introduced a new Problem of the Week, which is as follows: In an effort to swindle his cows, Farmer John has (…)
Meeting Summary – 11/7/11
by MG Chi on November 7, 2011
The schedule for USACO 2011-12 is public now, and it can be found here! Today’s meeting slides covered useful tips for the USACO competition, which is going to be this coming weekend(1st round). USACO will be our PotW for this week, (…)
Meeting Summary – 10/31/11
by Jack Li on October 31, 2011
Happy Halloween! Today we went over greedy algorithms and when and when not to use them. We also went over two solutions to the previous Problem of the Week and introduced the new Problem of the Week. The new PotW (…)
Meeting Summary – 10/10/11
by MG Chi on October 10, 2011
In today’s math computer science club meeting, the officers went over some common “math” related questions that might appear on USACO. The presentation included methods and sample codes for different types of problems. The Problem of the Week is: Bessie (…)