ACM-ICPC is made possible through the efforts of an extensive and dedicated group of international volunteers. One feature of the opening ceremonies was the announcement of the award winners for accolades given by ACM-ICPC and UPE for 2014.
The computer science honor society Upsilon Pi Epsilon has supported competitive programming since its inception, and tonight gave its top award, the abacus award, to James Comer, the ACM-ICPC Director of Regional Contests. Dr. Comer’s lists of participations and accomplishments are as long as his list of friends from around the world that he has made through his involvement with the ICPC. In an emotional acceptance speech, he encouraged the audience to find a passion to change their lives like ACM-ICPC has changed his.
ACM-ICPC award winners are as follows:
Mark Measures Distinguished Service Award
Magaz Asanov
UPE Distinguished International Service Award
Ural Federal University
Victor Koksharov
Dmitry Bugrov
Raisa Ivanitskaya
Konstantin Bugrov
Joseph S. DeBlasi Outstanding Contribution Award
Ural Federal University – Institute of Mathematics & Computer Science
Magaz Asanov
Pavel Atnashev
Evgueni Chtykov
Denis Dublennykh
Alexander Halperin
Alexander Ipatov
Alexander Klepinin
Mikhail Rubinchik
Alexey Samsonov
Stanislav Vasiliyev
Leonid Volkov
Vladimir Yakovlev
ICPC Outstanding International Service Award
IBM
Alain Azagury
Brenda Chow
Debbie Kilbride
Mark Guan
Rod D’Silva
Tim deBoer
Chris Kale
Vasile Petrasuc
Steve Daie
Steve Mills
Amanda Sturgill for ICPCNews