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Strategic Objectives: Looking toward 2020

• Secure ICPC Headquarters at Baylor.

• Establish a Center for Competitive Collaborative Learning (CCL) associated with the Competitive Learning Institute (CLI).

• Secure ICPC and CLI viability through corporate sponsorship.

• Advance R&D in global enterprise technology focused on global services for CCL social networks.

• Foster academic research through the CLI Symposium and related academic and professional venues.

• Attract outstanding graduate students to Baylor.

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What is the ICPC?

• ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest sponsored by IBM with headquarters at Baylor.

• Oldest and largest programming competition for the world’s universities and colleges.

• Annual events on four levels: Internet, local, regional, and World Finals.

• Teams of 3 students with 1 computer against 10-12 real world problems that they must solve within five hours.

• They solve them by writing software solutions that meet the testing and expectation of judges.

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The Basics: The ICPC is for the Students

• To open doors of opportunity.

• To represent their universities.

• To compete with the best of their peers.

• To aspire to the highest standards of excellence.

• To sharpen problem-solving, programming, and teamwork skills in a collaborative, supportive environment.

• To strengthen the problem-solving community.

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Basics: The ICPC is for our Global Community

• To open doors of opportunity for those with the talent to create opportunity for others.

• To raise aspirations and confidence, especially among those with limited prospects.

• To expand the size and capabilities of the global pool of talented problem solvers.

• To promote the growth of our virtual planet as a world where people join together to address challenges through problem solving.

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Baylor’s Role in the ICPC

• Compete every year. World Champions in 1982.

• Train teams in Competitive Learning coursework.

• Site for South Central USA Regionals.

• Since 1989, ICPC HQ is at Baylor.

• Organizational leadership of all World Finals.

• Hosted the 2006 World Finals in San Antonio.

• Provide global services over universities.

• Since 2002, CLI HQ is at Baylor. Advance R&D in CCL and global enterprise services for CCL communities.

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Impact: World Finals – Marrakech 2015

• Over 40,000 regional contestants from 2,600 universities in 101 countries.

• Top 128 Teams from those now competing at 450+ sites.

• Live global social media coverage – developed at Baylor.

• ICPCNews Facebook with over 115,000 followers, Twitter, etc.

• IBM BlueMix rollout for academics.

• Support: 5 ministries of Moroccan Government, Many local host partners, royal assistance.

Hosts: Mohamed V UniversityAl Akawahyn UniversityMundianapolis UniversityThe Moroccan ACM

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What is the CLI?

Bill Poucher, CII Principle Investigator

Jeff Donahoo, CLI R&D Director & CII Co-Principle Investigator

Bill Booth, CLI Symposium Chief Editor

The Collaborative Learning Institute (CLI) seeks to strengthen and grow the global pool of problem solvers in the computing sciences and related fields by extending the benefits of competitive collaborative learning to the virtual world.

The CLI engages and removes obstacles for developing, inventing, applying, and providing global enterprise technologies to create opportunity for and raise the aspirations of the next generation by developing teamwork, prowess, and programming skills in a challenging, encouraging, relationship-rich environment.

The CLI Mission

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What Does the CLI Do?

► CLI: Global Services via Global Enterprise Technology

► ICPC R&D using Students and Faculty at Baylor & other CLI universities

► ICPC Contest Registration, Management and Information Systems werere-developed starting in 2004 using Open Source technology andOpen Standards under direction of Dr. Donahoo at Baylor University

► Baylor/Czech Tech Grad student awarded “Best Paper” for all of CZ

► IBM Virtual Center donated in 2013

► Baylor research platform► Resources used by ICPC academic volunteers in USA, Spain, China,

Sweden, Russia, Prague, Netherlands

► Annual CLI Symposium during ICPC World Finals since 2002.► Papers published for academic credit; sharing of “Best

Practices”

Petrozavodsk University 10 Day Training Camp● 60 Teams, 20 Universities prepare for Regionals, Finals● 9 ICPC Style Contests; 100 problems● 29 ICPC Medalists; 5 World Champions

Programming Challenge for Girls (14 years)● Designed using latest Research on gender learning

preferences/methods● 75% of attendees interested in more study● Expanding this fall to all Secondary Schools in Australia and New

Zealand

ICPC Automated Judging (U of Valladolid)► 15 Million solutions since 1997

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CLI Principle Investigators

– Jeff Donahoo, Baylor, Director of R&D– William B. Poucher, Baylor– William Booth, Baylor– Greg Hamerly, Baylor– Roman Elizarov, St. Petersburg State University ITM&O– Jose Leal, U. of Porto– Fernando Silva, U. of Porto– Miguel Revilla, U. of Valladolid– Hans Domjan, Zurich ETH– Denis Vlasov, Petrozavodsk State University– Tim deBoer, IBM– Fredrik Niemela, KTH Stockholm– Mats Erixson, KTH– Mike Korpi, Baylor University– Cory Carbonara, Baylor University

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CLI Projects and Topics

• Registration and performance tracking systems.

• Automated Software Performance Evaluation.

• Automated Practice Systems.• Problem Archives and Testing Methods.• Transitioning to Virtual Machine

Technologies.• Competitive Programming Environments.• Competitive Technology Reference

Platforms.• ICPC Live HD Video Coverage.• ICPC Challenge.

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Global Impact: Perception, Opportunity, & Global Service

• Credibility with the best and the brightest worldwide.

• Healthy relationships with university faculty worldwide.

• Confidence of community leaders at local and national levels.

• Known to a huge pool of prospective graduate students.

• We make a difference by encouraging those with opportunity to make opportunity for others.

• We make a difference by creating opportunity for future opportunity makers from emerging nations or disadvantaged segments of society to create opportunity for others.

• We serve, extending an open door policy to one and all.

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Global Impact: Outside Baylor

• Today, over 40,000 of the world’s finest CS students come to icpc.baylor.edu at no cost to Baylor resident students.

• Today, we have the respect of faculty and students over 2,600 universities in 101 countries.

• Today, we have the respect of ACM, IBM, and other leading IT companies.

• Today, we have the respect of world and community leaders including presidents, prime ministers, ministers of higher education, governors, and mayors.

• We incubate global opportunity by enabling and encouraging future opportunity makers from all cultures, whether troubled, emerging or established.

• 2014 World Finals had over 1 billion media impressionswith 400 million mention Baylor as the headquarters.

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Impact: CS Research & CS Doctoral Program

• Pre-eminence in the multi-disciplinary academic area of CCL and global enterprise technology application to social CCL networking.

• R&D and best practices research possible since services are actually delivered on state-of-the-art resources.

• Recruit top talent through informal relations with other ICPC institutions.

• Top MS graduate took all grad courses towards doctorate at Baylor and passed prelims at highest levels at CTU Prague.

• Baylor faculty currently direct doctoral research.

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Strategic Objectives: Progress toward 2020

• Secure ICPC Headquarters at Baylor.

• Establish a Center for Competitive Collaborative Learning (CCL) associated with the Competitive Learning Institute (CLI).

• Secure ICPC and CLI viability through corporate sponsorship.

• Advance R&D in global enterprise technology focused on global services for CCL social networks.

• Foster academic research through the CLI Symposium and related academic and professional venues.

• Attract outstanding graduate students to Baylor.