Hi, Of course. Many students who used to participate (or still participating) in programming contests (e.g. GCJ, TopCoder or ACM ICPC) are now grad student in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or maybe completed their degree). Their research usually requires knowledge and skills in algorithm design and programming to solve a practical problem. I'm personally working on the reliability of memories with an emphasis of curing electromigration which may sound completely off the topic. However, what I am doing is developing algorithms and designing combinatorial optimization techniques with the application of VLSI circuits. My research requires a ton of algorithmic programming skills that I gained by involving in these contests. Obviously, sometimes I need to know some other related materials in physics and electrical circuits in order to have a good image of the problem and solve it correctly. There are also several fields which are purely related to the algorithm design and its theoretical aspects that you can find in computer science programs. Note that as a grad student you usually need to obtain some other skills and dig in other theoretical materials in order to solve a real world problem. All in all, although I'm solving a problem in the semiconductor industry, it's nothing but designing algorithms and programming.
Good luck. On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Rick Goldstein <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone has completed (or currently working towards) a > CS/algorithm phd where the research problems and/or coursework are a > similar flavor to the programming questions asked in the Google Code Jam? > > Thanks! > Rick > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Code Jam" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/2f8501ab-033d-4806-bddd-f4cbbdf4d3ab%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/CAMUfUqMwqab3fN9ZNRtKc41jVvAVV37qHLXi9O6-P7vui-wHkw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
