Abstract

We talk a little about the International Programming Competition and Florida Tech's part participation. The Southeast Regional Competition is coming up on 8 November 2025. The problems posed at the ICPC style competitions have clear and efficient solutions. Expressing the solutions poses an opportunity to a programming language to express the solution in a way that is efficient for the computer and clear to reader. We examine a few of my favorite ICPC problems and show the solutions. We will try to show the functional languages are unsurpassed in expressing computation.

About the Speaker

Ryan Stansifer is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Florida Tech and taught formal languages, programming languages and compiler construction for many years. He is the author of several books, including one on the functional programming language ML. He was the director of the ICPC southeast region for almost 20 years and coached the Florida Tech competitive programming team five times at the ICPC world finals.