Lahore (Staff Report): UMT to host International Programming Event in collaboration with ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery. Opening ceremony will be held on 31st December 9AM at Seminar Hall, Old SST Building UMT. Prize distribution ceremony will be arranged at same venue at 4PM.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery is the worlds first and largest educational and scientific society, uniting CS educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address challenges of the information age.

For around 40 years, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is the premiere global programming competition conducted by and for the worlds universities also known as World Cup of Programming. The competition operates under the auspices of ACM, is sponsored by IBM, and is headquartered at Baylor University. For nearly four decades, the ICPC has grown to be a game-changing global competitive educational program that has raised aspirations and performance of generations of the worlds problem solvers in the computing sciences and engineering.
ACM-ICPC is the worlds first, largest and most prestigious international competition where a team of 3 from each geographic region or country first compete in their respective ACM-ICPC Regional contest. The winning teams of each region then qualify to compete in the subsequent ACM-ICPC World Finals, held annually. For example, past year from a field of 46,000 contestants from 2,948 universities in 103 countries on six continents competed at 532 sites. As a result 132 teams advanced to the World Finals which was held 20-25 May, 2017 in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. It was a real moment of pride for all of us that a team from UMT had won the ACM —ICPA Asia Lahore regional contest and became one of the World Finalists.

The Asia Lahore Regional ACM Collegiate Programming Contest was first launched in 2014 by Dr. Umar Suleman at FAST National University, Lahore. Thereafter, the yearly event has been hosted in University of Central Punjab (UCP, 2015) and last year in University of Management and Technology (UMT, 2016).