Gulf Programming Contest takes place in Kuwait for the First Time

• Teams from across the GCC participated
• Winning team was Travelling Salesman from Khalifa University UAE

• GPC 2016 prepares students for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) regional and world programming contest.

Kuwait City, April 3rd, 2016: Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) hosted the Sixth Gulf Programming Contest which took place on March 23rd and 24th on its campus. The competition, which was sponsored by Boubyan Bank and Zain and organized by the Computer Science Department at GUST, took place in Kuwait for the first time.

GPC 2016 is an opportunity for university students from around the region majoring in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, or any IT related subjects to display their abilities in programming and problem solving. The teams were given ten programming problems to solve using one PC only during a five hour period. The team Travelling Salesmen from Khalifa University of UAE was selected to represent their university at the ACM regional and world programming contests in 2017. This competition is considered the world’s largest global competitive, educative, and scientific in computer programing that attracts a growing number of the best IT students from around the world.

Dr. Tahir Ali, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and coach of the GUST team, said “I am so proud of our students for participating in such a high profile and competitive event. I also commend them for their hospitality and sportsmanship, and hope that they do better next year.”

GPC 2016 in Kuwait hosted 31 teams from 11 universities from across the Gulf Region. Next year’s competition is expected to take place at the same time at March 2017. Further information about the competition can be found on gpc2016.gust.edu.kw