ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (abbreviated as ACM-ICPC or just ICPC) is an annual multi-tiered competition among the universities of the world. There are eighteen different sites in Asia that host Asia Regional Final and Dhaka is one of them. Each year the winner of the Asia Regional Final Dhaka Site Contest advances to the ACM-ICPC World Finals. Like other sites of ICPC, Dhaka site contest is also sponsored by IBM and operated under the auspices of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
ACM ICPC Dhaka site contest started in 1997 with the initiative of Professor A. L. Haque of North South University (NSU). Its first event was held on 18 November 1997 with the participation of 18 teams from 11 institutions. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology - BUET Bengal Tigers team became the champion and moved to the world final which was held on 28 February 1998 at Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Champion BUET team of Suman Kumar Nath (now at Microsoft Research), Rezaul Alam Chowdhury (UT Austin) and Tarique Mesbaul Islam (Waterloo) occupied 24th position in the world final among 54 teams tying with Stanford University. Same year, NSU team received a wild card for being the host of the Dhaka site regional contest and participated in the world final.
North South University hosted this event 12 times from 1997 to 1999, 2004 to 2006, 2008 to 2011, 2013 and 2015 while Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology hosted thrice from 2001 to 2003. East West University hosted the event in 2007. Daffodil International University hosted the event in 2012. Bangladesh University of Business and Technology hosted the event in 2014.
Champion: Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyHost: North South UniversityChampion's position at the world final: 24thNotes: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology also secured 2nd, 3rd and 4th place.Champion: Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyHost: North South UniversityChampion's position at the world final: Honorable MentionNotes: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology also secured 3rd and 4th place. Sharif University of Tehran and IIT Kanpur secured 7th and 11th place respectively.Champion: Chinese University of Hong KongHost: North South UniversityChampion's position at the world final: 8thNotes: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology secured 2nd, 3rd and 4th place.Not HostedChampion: Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyHost: Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyChampion's position at the world final: Honorable MentionNotes: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and American International University-Bangladesh secured 2nd place respectively.Champion: Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyHost: Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyChampion's position at the world final: Honorable MentionNotes: Nanyang Technological University of Singapore secured 2nd place.Champion: Fudan UniversityMaximum problem solved: 6Host: Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyChampion's position at the world final: 15thNotes:Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology secured 2nd and 3rd place. Dhaka University became 4th.Champion:Fudan UniversityMaximum problem solved: 6Host:North South UniversityChampion's position at the world final: 6thNotes: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology secured 2nd place. National University of Singapore and IIT Bombay secured 3rd and 6th place respectively.Champion:Fudan UniversityMaximum problem solved: 6Host:North South UniversityChampion's position at the world final: 39thNotes: Dhaka University and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology secured 2nd and 3rd place respectively. American International University - Bangladesh became 4th. Multimedia University of Malaysia received an honorable mention.Champion:Fudan UniversityHost:North South UniversityChampion's position at the world final: 26thNotes: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology secured 2nd place. American International University - Bangladesh and North South University jointly secured 3rd place.Champion: Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyHost: East West UniversityMaximum problem solved: 7Champion's position at the world final: 31stNotes: Fudan University and East West University secured 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Total 86 Teams from 33 Universities competed to take the pride to qualify for ACM ICPC world final 2008.Champion: Fudan UniversityHost: North South UniversityMaximum problem solved: 9Champion's position at the world final: 14thNotes; Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology secured 2nd place and received wild card for participating in the world finals. A total of 83 teams competed.Champion: Fudan UniversityHost: North South UniversityMaximum problem solved: 7Champion's position at the world final: 11thNotes; Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology secured 2nd place and Dhaka University placed 3rd. A total of 89 teams participated.Champion: Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyHost: North South UniversityMaximum problem solved: 6Champion's position at the world final: Honorable MentionNotes: Fudan University and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology secured 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Total 103 Teams from 43 Universities competed for a spot at the ACM ICPC world final 2011.Champion: Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyHost: North South UniversityMaximum problem solved: 5Champion's position at the world final: Honorable MentionChampion: Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityHost: Daffodil International UniversityMaximum problem solved: 7Champion's position at the world final: 2ndChampion: Shahjalal University of Science and TechnologyHost: North South UniversityMaximum problem solved: 7Champion's position at the world final: Honorable MentionChampion: Shahjalal University of Science and TechnologyHost: Bangladesh University of Business and TechnologyMaximum problem solved: 7Champion's position at the world final: 54Champion: Jahangirnagar UniversityHost: North South UniversityMaximum problem solved: 7Champion's position at the world final: 44Champion: Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyHost: University of Asia PacificMaximum problem solved: 10Champion's position at the world final: Yet to participateEach year at least one local team from Dhaka site takes part in the world final either as the regional champion or by wild card. On few occasions Dhaka site local teams made it by winning ACM ICPC Kanpur site regional. In 2005, Fudan University became champion at two different sites and withdrawn their championship from Dhaka site. As a result, 2nd ranked team, University of Dhaka who was supposed to get a wild card got the direct entry to the world final and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology got the wild card. Summary of all the Dhaka site local team results in the world final are illustrated in the following table:
1997 - North South University1998 - North South University1999 - North South University2000 - Not hosted2001 - Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology2002 - Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology2003 - Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology2004 - North South University2005 - North South University2006 - North South University2007 - East West University2008 - North South University2009 - North South University2010 - North South University2011 - North South University2012 - Daffodil International University2013 - North South University2014 - Bangladesh University of Business and Technology2015 - North South University2016 - University of Asia Pacific
