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)...

The first Computational 8 Ball Tournament was held at the 10 th Computer Olympiad in Taiwan this past September, 2005. In this report, I will describe some of the characteristics of the game of 8 ball which make it interesting to model computationally. I will also describe the software system that we developed to allow competitors to play a fair game, in the presence of noise. I conclude with a...

Modern foreign language education in Russia is riddled with various challenges, ranging from the forced introduction of interactive technologies to complications imposed by political agenda. The article analyses Olympiad tasks and their peculiarities at different stages, considering competitive projects, both university projects All-Russian schoolchildren. author offers some recommendations on ...

introduction: second national medical sciences olympiad was done in shiraz in august 2010 with aim of indentifying scientifically talented individuals, motivating students and orienting extracurricular activities. this olympiad was done in 3 areas, basic sciences, clinical sciences and management. in clinical sciences, we used tosce (team objective structured clinical examination). in this arti...

All communications about this column should be sent to Professor R.E. Woodrow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. T2N 1N4. We begin this number with the problems of the IV class of the Croatian National Mathematical Competition, Novi Vinodolski, May 8{11, 1997. Thanks go to Richard Nowakowski, Canadian Team Leader to the IMO in Argentina f...

Student Association External Vice President Charles Klein is spearheading a campaign to bring ESPN basketball announcer Dick Vitale-to Rice to call the Feb",'24 game between Rice and the University of Utah. Vitale , who is commonly known as the voice of college basketball, is scheduled to call a game between the Universi ty of K e n t u c k y Wi ldca t s and t h e University of Tennessee Volunt...