College Programmers to Vie for World Title

By KAREN KAPLAN

Nov. 23, 1998 12 AM PT

For the third year in a row, a team from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont won the Assn. of Computing Machinery’s collegiate programming competition for the Southwestern U.S. region.

Senior computer science majors Jeff Lawson and J. Nathaniel Sloan and senior math major Dominic Mazzoni will travel to the Netherlands in April to compete in the ACM’s International Collegiate Competition. A Harvey Mudd team won the world championship in 1997.This year, the students solved six programming problems in five hours to defeat 45 other teams from Southern California, Nevada and Hawaii. The team had to write programs to score cribbage hands and solve a year 2000 problem, among others.

The competition was held Nov. 14 at Santa Barbara City College.

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Karen Kaplan

Karen Kaplan covers science and medical research for the Los Angeles Times. She has been a member of the science team since 2005, including 13 years as an editor. Her first decade at The Times was spent covering technology in the Business section as both a reporter and editor. She grew up in San Diego and is a graduate of MIT and Columbia University.

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