1001 teams competed in regional contests last fall. Of those the following 43 teams advanced to the finals held on February 17, 1996, as part of the ACM Computing Week Conference 1996 ACM Interantional Programming Contest Finals Sponsored by Microsoft Finalist List Rank Place University Probs time 1 1 University of California, Berkeley 6 712 2 2 Harvard University 6 797 3 3 University of Waterloo 6 866 4 4 University of Sofia St. Kliment Ohridski 6 896 5 5 Massachusetts Institute Of Technology 5 449 6 6 University of Queensland 5 513 7 7 Albert-Ludwigs- Universitat Freiburg 5 579 7 8 Simon Fraser University 5 588 7 9 Virginia Tech 5 711 7 10 University of Auckland 5 745 7 11 The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology 5 7 12 Comenius University 5 7 13 University of Toronto 5 7 14 Columbia University 5 7 15 Carnegie-Mellon University 5 7 16 Univesity of Delaware 5 17 17 Moscow State University 4 17 18 California Institute Of Technology 4 17 19 St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics 4 17 20 University of Missouri-Rolla 4 17 21 Eindhoven University of Technology 4 17 22 Carleton College 4 17 23 Coe College 4 17 24 University of Utah 4 17 25 Swarthmore College 4 17 26 Warsaw University 4 Honorable Mention (alphabetically order not place order) Florida Institute of Technology Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Louisana State University National Taiwan University National Tsinghua University Rice University Shanghai University Texas Tech University University of Belgrade University of Bucharest University of Central Florida University of Miami University of Nevada at Las Vegas University of Saskatchewan Universitat Ulm Wheaton College