A team of undergraduates from McGill university made second place at the CS Games competition last weekend at Université de Montréal. The team from Université de Montréal itself won top honors. This is an annual competition that addresses many areas of computer science. The competition this year involved 27 teams from over 20 different Canadian and US universities, and spanned several different topics.
McGill won the Operations Research competition and the Optimization competition and was also awarded the best team participation award (Team spirit). In addition, the McGill team also finished in the top 3 of the Debugging, Math and Logic, Scripting, Software Engineering and Theory of Computation/Algorithms competitions.
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