Terminally Nocturnal (1989-90)

(Left-to-Right : Craig McNaughton, John Gee, Bruce Warrington and Paul Sharp)

In 1989 the New Zealand contest was changed to make it more like the ACM contest. This was done to enable New Zealand teams to gain practice competing under the ACM rules. To continue competing in the ACM programming contest New Zealand was assigned a region to compete in to gain a place in the finals. The region assigned to New Zealand was Southern California.

Terminally Nocturnal competed in the New Zealand programming contest and came first. Winning the New Zealand programming contest meant they were to represent New Zealand at the regional competition in Southern California.

After surprising the other teams by coming first in the region, Terminally Nocturnal was given a place in the finals. At the finals, Terminally Nocturnal came first, beating their nearest competing team by solving all the problems in half of the time. In doing this Terminally Nocturnal became the first non-US team to win the competition (which resulted in standing ovation at the awards dinner).

Terminally Nocturnal won this splendid trophy for coming first in the 1990 ACM Colligate Programming Contest. It is currently housed in the main Computer Science building, Archway West, pictured in the background.

The Trophy won by Terminally Nocturnal

John Gee
John now works for scientific software/instruments company ADInstruments.

Craig McNaughton
Craig is working at Pandromeda.

Paul Sharp ( Capt )
Paul now works at Dunedin-based Virtual Spectator who have devoloped real time 3D graphics for inclusion in live sports telecasts.

Bruce Warrington
Bruce is currently doing a post-doctoral research at the University of Washington. The current area of his research is the handedness of atoms (which is somehow related to time travel and quantum computing).

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