I am finally back from my almost month long vacation to Japan and China. The trip was fantastic. It was nice to take a break from programming and work for such a long period, but now I am back and trying to scramble to get caught up. I am teaching a third year course on HCI this summer, so I need to prepare for that. I am also starting as a postdoc in May and doing that until the end of the year.
While I was away, I received an e-mail from the Pacific Northwest Regional director. Apparently, the world programming finals for the ACM ICPC is happening a month earlier than usual next year, so regionals need to be complete by November 1st, 2009. Normally, the Pacific Northwest Regional takes place around the 20th of November, but this coming Fall it will be on the 31st of October. That means I’ll have almost 3 weeks less time to prepare my teams.
Luckily, the programming club from this past term was pretty successful, so I should have some returning programmers for next year. I am hoping to take two teams this year and I think the top team should be reasonably strong.
