Introduction of “Honorable Mention“ Award at the International Olympiad in Informatics

The International Olympiad in Informatics Syllabus

The original proposal of the IOI Syllabus was co-authored by Tom Verhoeff1, Gyula Horváth2, Krzysztof Diks3, and Gordon Cormack4. The current maintainer of the Syllabus is Michal Forǐsek5. The Syllabus evolves thanks to input from the IOI community. The following people helped to evolve the Syllabus by sending in their feedback: Paul Ashton (NZL), Thomas Barnet-Lamb (GBR), Giorgio Casadei (ITA)...

A mathematician reflecting on the International Olympiad in Informatics

In July 2013, students from 80–90 countries will descend upon Australia to take part in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). On the surface the IOI is a computer programming competition, but in fact it involves a great deal of both mathematical technique and mathematical creativity. In this short article we introduce the readers to the IOI and the mathematics within. 1 Introducing t...

Honorable Mention for CNUR816: Health Assessment at Ryerson University

International Olympiad in Informatics: Team Selection, Training, and Statistics – The Tale of Two Countries

The paper discusses the issue of supporting informatics (mainly focusing on programming) education through competitions for secondary school students. Competitions play an important role for learners as a source of inspiration, innovation, and attraction. The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) is the primary computer science competition for young students, up to the age of 20. The prim...

Introduction to the International Medical Informatics Association

Member Societies can be a society, a group of societies, or an appropriate body, representing the health and biomedical informatics activities within a country. Generally, only one member society may be admitted from a country. For example , the American Medical Informatics Association is the member society representing the United States, and KOSMI is the member society representing Korea in th...