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Live from the Nordic Collegiate Programming Competition 2008

I am currently managing the Aarhus University (and only Danish!) site for the Nordic Collegiate Programming Competition (NCPC 2008). We have 5 teams here – which is a 250% increase from last year (which was also an increase from the … Continue reading

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LIVE! DAIMI ACM Qualification Programming Contest

The live scoreboard can be seen here: http://acm.tju.edu.cn/toj/vcontest/ranklist1951.html . We have about 15 people participating right now, only those who have submitted something shows up on the scoreboard. The contest ends at 19:00 european central time.

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Participate in the ACM Collegiate Programming Contest

This is probably most interesting for students at Aarhus University. I’m coaching the teams from Aarhus that’ll go to the North-West European Regional Finals (NWERC 2008) in Utrecht. If you are interested in trying out for the teams you can … Continue reading

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Footnotes Tap Ensemble on YouTube

The Footnotes Tap Ensemble is now on youtube.

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SoCG 2008 Update

There’s only one session left of the second day of SoCG 2008 here at the University of Maryland in College Park. The temperature is close to 40 degrees C and it’s very humid so everyone stays inside in the air-conditioned … Continue reading

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No Plans for August? Come to Denmark and Learn About Cache-Oblivious Algorithms

MADALGO is hosting a summer school on cache-oblivious algorithms in August this year. Here is the announcement: (Note that registration is free (!) and that the registration deadline is approaching) OVERVIEW AND GOAL Cache-oblivious algorithms are algorithms that are efficient … Continue reading

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SoCG 2008 Accepted Papers

The list of accepted papers for The 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG) 2008 is out: (Hint, paper 40 looks good) Manor Mendel and Assaf Naor. Markov convexity and local rigidity of distorted metrics Noga Alon, Robert Berke, … Continue reading

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Election Day

I never made it to the consulate in Seattle in time to vote, unfortunately. I hope the right ones win. Anyways, DR decided to open their online live-tv to non-danish computers for today only, so I am currently sitting in … Continue reading

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Flight Log

This blog needs more random junk! Being a flight geek I decided to keep track of my flight history, so far 46 legs in 18 months (!). I wil try to keep the log updated – mostly for my own … Continue reading

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Danish Election

There’s an election in Denmark in November and I am kinda bummed that I won’t be there to vote. This document at the website for the Danish embassy in Washington says that I can go to a Danish consulate or … Continue reading

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