The Ninth Annual Northern Michigan University Invitational Programming Contest was held from 12:00 to 5:00 P.M. EST on Saturday 29 March 2008 at Northern Michigan University. The contest was organized by the NMU student chapter of the ACM and was attended by 54 students on 20 teams representing the following 5 schools.

Algoma University College, Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada
Lake Superior State University, Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, United States of America
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, United States of America
Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan, United States of America
The University of Michigan--Flint, Flint, Michigan, United States of America

The contest consisted of 6 problems to be solved over a 5 hour period.

Here is the list of rules.

Below is the list of problems, test input files, correct output files, and sample solutions. There were many ways to solve the problems, of course. These solutions were written in Java, and are included along with executable Jar files.

Problem 1
Problem 1 Input File
Problem 1 Output File
Problem 1 Solution
Problem 1 Executable

Problem 2
Problem 2 Input File
Problem 2 Output File
Problem 2 Solution
Problem 2 Executable

Problem 3
Problem 3 Input File
Problem 3 Output File
Problem 3 Solution
Problem 3 Executable

Problem 4
Problem 4 Input File
Problem 4 Output File
Problem 4 Solution
Problem 4 Executable

Problem 5
Problem 5 Input File
Problem 5 Output File
Problem 5 Solution
Problem 5 Executable

Problem 6
Problem 6 Input File
Problem 6 Output File
Problem 6 Solution
Problem 6 Executable

Northern Michigan University NULLZILLA won the competition.
Second place went to Michigan Technological University TEAM MIK.
Third place went to Michigan Technological University MTU DROP TABLE TEAMS.

The winning school was Michigan Technological University. The second place school was Northern Michigan University.

Here are the complete results.

Here is the laptop tutorial.