California State University, Northridge

PRESS RELEASE

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November 14, 1996

Contact: Carmen Ramos Chandler,
(818) 677-2130
cchandler@exec.csun.edu

CSUN Hosts Computing Contest

Cal State Northridge's Computer Science Department is hosting the 1996 Association of Computing Machinery Regional Programming Contest on Saturday, Nov. 16.

University students from throughout the Southwest and Hawaii will test their programming prowess through a series of computing challenges.

Registration begins at 9 a.m. in the university's Mac Dome west of the Oviatt Library in the center of the campus at 18111 Nordhoff St. in Northridge.

Warm-up and preliminary trials are at 10:30 a.m. The actual contest begins at 1:30 p.m. The competition is expected to last until 7:30 p.m.

The public is welcome to attend.

For more information, call the Computer Science Department at (818) 677-3398.