Saturday, February 28 1998

Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday - Teams - Winners

The Last Minutes before the Contest...

They are ready to go!

The Largest Team™ is now complete (University of Ulm, Germany)

 
Some last minutes announcements by Bill Poucher and James Comer

Ready...

...steady...

...GO!!! The Contest has just started!

   
Proclamations of the Mayor of Atlanta, the Governor of Georgia and the Vice President of the United States of America

Coaches Appreciation Luncheon

While the contestants are working hard, the Coaches enjoy their appreciation luncheon.

During the Contest...

As the contest proceeds, more and more balloons are delivered to the participants. Each balloon corresponds to a correctly solved problem.

The Coaches in front of the Contest room are watching the current standings with great interest.

Meanwhile, Judge Stan Wileman wants to be really sure of things -- he uses a second computer...

Judge Don Chamberlin from IBM Almaden Research Center counting lines.

These interpreters do not seem to have much work.

Spectators following the Contest.

Comenius University at work.

Last minute bug fixes by the MIT team.

The Contest is Over!

One hour before the end of the Contest when the last public standings were posted, Charles University Prague was leading.

Hans Haltmeier, a reporter from the German newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung" getting the latest news from the Darmstadt Team.

Between Contest End and Award Ceremony

A real "All-You-Can-Eat"-feast for any cat, those mice!

The Frames for the top ten teams are prepared by Fran Sinhart and Elaine Poucher, while Bill Poucher is struggling with the paper-jamming printer (I'd rather not show that...)

Bill, we need some of those ribbons for next year's contest.

Award Ceremony

Chelsea "Snowflake" Comer (daughter of James Comer, Finals Director)

Waiting for the Final Results...

...while James Comer is arranging the awards

William Poucher welcomes the participants to the Award Ceremony

Those people form IBM did a really great job: Mary Law, Tom Glover and Brenda Chen (from left)

Gabby Silberman, Director of IBM Center for Advanced Studies and the Coordinator for the Kasparov vs. Deep Blue events.

James Comer was just presented the ACM Mark Measures Award.

The top ten teams are on this page

SpeedZone

Welcome at the SpeedZone, ...

...with all sorts of fun games.

At the end, people spend their last cents on purchasing various goodies.

That's it!

The Contest is already history --  this is the Contest area just about a few hours after the end of the Contest