黃金雄 教授 部落格 《呼喚》(西杰博士)

十幾年了，我還在悲傷  
黄金雄 教授   (西杰)

記得我曾經告訴妳，妳的兩隻腳拇指靠兩腳中間的骨頭比常人突出許多。我說妳的腳拇指長得跟妳祖母（我的阿娘）一模一樣，每次看到妳突出的腳拇指，我不禁就會悲從中來。

我要細聲告訴妳，自從我阿娘去世以後，我常常在三十五號高速公路上馳騁的汽車裡，一邊握著駕駛盤，一邊流淚。這種情形持續了好幾年……因為我從來沒有想到，在我阿娘臨走前的那一刻，我無緣見到她一面，也沒有讓她牽著我的手，靜靜離開人間。這個錯誤和遺憾，讓我悲傷了許多年，現在我要把我傾盆的淚水，灑在這張紙上。親愛的寶貝女兒，除了讓妳傾聽我的輕聲細語，我還要妳看到滿紙歉疚的淚水。

自從妳的哥哥及妳出生不久後，我就替你們辦了護照及回我故鄉的簽證。因為我總以為妳的祖父母有隨時走的可能，所以我提早準備就緒，以便隨時可以帶著全家奔回我的故鄉。

護照、簽證不停地加簽，一晃就是十幾年。其中，我也帶著你們回我的故鄉，讓你們及你們的祖父母享受一下三代同堂的歡樂。沒想到，就在妳十一年級（即臺灣的高二）及妳哥哥上哈佛大學的第一年，令我一輩子後悔的事情竟發生了。那一年，正值八月夏天，我一如往常地開車出去吃午餐，午餐後習慣性地把車停在系主任保留車位，然後從停車場向辦公室走去，因為辦公室裡總有做不完的系務。走到半途，我突然感到全身不舒服，腦中一片昏眩，幾乎快暈倒。我趕緊靠著大樓牆邊蹲下，休息了十幾分鐘，後來才勉強走回辦公室而且還對秘書抱怨道：「外面天氣真是太熱，我差點昏倒在地上。」

大約過了一個半小時，秘書小姐進來說，有一通她聽不懂的電話，問我要不要接。原來那是我哥哥的電話，他說阿娘一個多小時前走了。在我阿娘快走時，她在醫院裡掙扎了一陣子，於是我哥哥及他的兒子，快速地把她載回家，因為臺灣人總希望老人家在家中去世，好讓靈魂記得自己的家，並且可以留在家中保護後代子孫。我哥哥還說，我阿娘臨死前一個多小時，一直在流淚，而且還不時地環視著每個人，好像在尋找我的影子，好讓我握著她的手，靜靜離去。

古今中外很多人都說，母子之間有很強的心電感應存在，而它就發生在我身上！
原來，我在停車場幾乎昏倒的那段時間，也就是我阿娘臨走的那個時刻，她臨走前對我的思念竟然飛躍半個世界，感應到我疲憊的身心。

為了帶著你們奔回故鄉處理你們的祖父母可能的突發事件，我十幾年前就準備好了，沒想到，一九九○年的夏天，事情真正發生時，我竟然糊塗了。事情是這樣的：自從我到某大學掌管系務之後，我發現這個落伍保守的科系需要加速整頓，以便趕上高科技的時代，但也因為我的決心及加速改革動作，激起了系裡幾位紅脖子德州佬的反抗。這幾位紅脖子竟然用全部的時間，尋找我帳目裡任何可能的污點，或學術著作的每一頁是否抄襲。雖然最後都沒事，但那段日子裡，我幾乎每天都處在高度緊張狀況下過日子。在妳祖母去世前的兩個星期，我哥哥告訴我，妳的祖母去醫院了，可能很嚴重。由於每天都在緊張狀況下應付幾個紅脖子，我竟然犯了一生最大的錯誤！我對我哥哥說：「三個月前，我才見過她，應該沒關係吧！我可能暫時不回去了。」就這樣，在我阿娘彌留之際，我竟沒有在她身邊，握著她粗糙的手，讓她靜靜地離去。我更沒有到醫院去照顧她、呵護她，稍稍表達我這顆遊子之心。

我親愛的女兒啊！就是因為這樣，我難過了一輩子，雖然我趕上了她的葬禮，但我為這件事，內心對阿娘的愧疚，流了十幾年的淚！從這些內心的傷痛，我深深體會到：我們要把我們對人的感激（尤其是父母的養育之恩）及時表達，儘量避免留下終生的遺憾，因為時光不會等待，也絕不會倒流。

我親愛的女兒，妳小時候常哭鬧著小孩子關心的事，眼中充滿了淚水，妳曾經這麼問我：「爸爸，您怎麼沒有淚水，怎麼不會哭？」我的小佩兒，爸爸是有淚水的。自從你們出生以後，爸爸曾經為了瑣事流了幾次淚，如今在三十五號高速公路的汽車裡，因為經常想念我的阿娘而流淚，為了這份永遠歉疚的心，十幾年了，我還在悲傷流淚。為什麼時光不能倒流？為什麼不讓我回到一九九○年那個夏天，在她最後幾天裡，能夠讓我輕輕摟著我的阿娘，讓我服侍她、呵護她。

為什麼時光不能倒流？
十幾年了，我還在悲傷。
黃金雄-西杰  教授《呼喚》
草於奧地利維也納

風箏，屋頂，阿娘的風箏線 

Asia Universities/Teams advancing to the World Finals 2010 Harbin:          
(No particular order; Total 37 teams.)            
(2009 Host universities are selected only if they are very close to qualified lines. 
For year 2008 hosts, they had not been in WF recently and must be also very close to qualified lines.) 
                          
1. Harbin Engineering University -  HEU-THREE LITTLE BOY                    HeLongJiang Provincial (China)   (World Finals Host Province) 
2. Sogang University – Oasis (South Korea)  
3. National Institute of Technology, Trichy – CounterGambit (India)
4. DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering – phoenix (India)  
5. Fudan University – HappyHeaven (China)
6. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology – BUET Rand Ecliptic (Bangladesh) 7. National University of Defense Technology – Zoe (China)
8. Zhejiang University of Technology – AngryCheers (China)
9. South China Agricultural University – SCAU-ARCTIC (China)
10. Hangzhou Dianzi University –HDU – AngelKidd (China)   (Host 2008) 
11. Wuhan University – FreeRadiant (China)
12. XiDian University – maybe (China)  
13. University of Tokyo – HITORI# (Japan)  
14. International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad – TheKingsGambit (India) 15. University of the Philippines-Diliman – Mga SOGO ni E. T. (Philippines)  
16. Chinese University of Hong Kong – Institution (China Hong Kong)
17. Guangdong University of Technology – GDUT_F_Speedo (China)  
18. National University of Singapore – NUSSOC2  (Singapore)
19. Ho Chi Minh City University of Science – HCMUS-Passion  (Vietnam)  
20. KAIST – Nondeterminist (South Korea)
21. Seoul National University – ran () (South Korea)             
22. Fuzhou University – ACOrz  (China)  
23. Sharif University of Technology – Sibilization (Iran)
24. Amirkabir University of Technology – Zart PMP (Iran)  
25. Kyoto University – d3sxp (Japan)
26. Chiao Tung University – VVVVvvVVvvVVVVVVvvVV (Taiwan)   (Host 2009)
 27. Southeast University – www.seuer.com (China)
28. Harbin Institute of Technology – Tripler (China)  (Host 2009) 29. Beijing Jiaotong University – ImBa (China) 

 (The following are universities with multiple teams qualified.)
30.Peking University – Montage (China)  (China)
31. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China– UESTC-Floyd (China)
32. Shanghai Jiaotong University – Rhodea (China)  

33. Tsinghua University – Intrepid (China)
34. National Taiwan University – Don't block me (Taiwan)
35. ZheJiang University – LAF (China)
36. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications – Dinic (China)
37. Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University – SYSU_Blover (China)

Runner Ups: (In Priority Order) 
Tokyo Institute of Technology – 40010 (Japan) (Tokyo site)
Xiamen University – Rubik (China) (WuHan Site)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – HKUST_Optimus (China Hong Kong) (Seoul Site)
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Qiming School – HustCFOP  (China)  (Shanghai Site)
University of Dhaka – DU Dark Ouranos (Bangladesh) (Dhaka Site)
Nanyang Technological University – NTU Ares (Singapore) (Hsinchu Site)

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Asia Teams Qualified for ACM-ICPC World Finals 2010 Harbin

(Total 36 teams; 2009 Host universities are selected only if they are very close to qualified lines. For year 2008 hosts, they had not been in WF recently and are also very close to qualified lines.)
(x/y : x =  points used for the site; y = slots given by ICPC Executive Director.)
(Foreign team used 0.4 points; repeated domestic team 0.7; other 1.0) 

1.      Asia Amritapuri (2.1/1.76)
Sogang University – Oasis (South Korea) (0.4)
National Institute of Technology, Trichy – CounterGambit (India) (0.7)
DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering – phoenix (India) (1.0)

2.      Asia Dhaka (1.4/0.98)
Fudan University – HappyHeaven (China) (0.4)
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology – BUET Rand Ecliptic (Bangladesh) (1.0)

3.      Asia Harbin (4.7/4.43)
National University of Defense Technology – Zoe (China) (1.0)
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China – UESTC-CP^2 (China) (0.7)
Zhejiang University of Technology – AngryCheers (China) (1.0)
South China Agricultural University – SCAU-ARCTIC (China) (1.0)
Hangzhou Dianzi University –HDU – AngelKidd (China) (1.0)  (Host 2008)

4.      Asia Hefei (5.2/4.41)
Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University – SYSU_Blover (China) (0.7)
Peking University – Montage (China) (0.7)
Zhejiang University – yukkuri (China) (0.7)
Wuhan University – FreeRadiant (China) (0.7)
Tsinghua University – DivineRapier (China) (0.7)
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications – _OxDEADBEEF (China) (0.7)XiDian University – maybe (China) (1.0)

5.      Asia Hsinchu (1.1/0.61)
University of Tokyo – HITORI# (Japan) (0.4)
National Taiwan University – 120yen Battle Fury (Taiwan) (0.7)

6.      Asia Jakarta (0.8/0.33)
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China – UESTC_floyd (China) (0.4)
National Taiwan University – dota (Taiwan) (0.4)

7.      Asia Gwalior-Kanpur (1.7/1.12)
International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad – TheKingsGambit (India) (1.0)
National Institute of Technology, Trichy – CounterGambit (India) (0.7)

8.      Asia Manila (1.0/0.47)
University of the Philippines-Diliman – Mga SOGO ni E. T. (Philippines) (1.0)

 9.      Asia Ningbo (5.2/4.48)
Shanghai Jiaotong University – Rhodea (China) (0.7)
Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University – SYSU_CobCannon (China) (0.7)
Chinese University of Hong Kong – Institution (China Hong Kong) (0.4)
Guangdong University of Technology – GDUT_F_Speedo (China) (1.0)
Zhejiang University – Reminisce (China) (0.7)
Tsinghua University – DivineRapier (China) (0.7)
Beijing Jiao Tong University - ImBa (China) (1.0)

10.  Asia Phuket (1.2/0.74)
Shanghai Jiaotong University – TeaM  (China) (0.4)National University of Singapore – NUSSOC2  (Singapore) (0.4)
Ho Chi Minh City University of Science – HCMUS-Passion  (Vietnam) (0.4)

11.  Asia Seoul (2.0/1.80)
KAIST – Nondeterminist (South Korea) (1.0)
Seoul National University – ran () (South Korea) (1.0)

12.  Asia Shanghai (5.2/5.17)
Tsinghua University – Intrepid (China) (0.7)
Shanghai Jiaotong University – TriPAL (China) (0.7)  
Zhejiang University – yukkuri (China) (0.7)
Wuhan University – FreeRadiant    (China) (0.7)
Peking University – Falcon (China) (0.7)
Fuzhou University – ACOrz  (China) (1.0)
Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University – SYSU_Imitator (China) (0.7)

13.  Asia Tehran (2.4/1.45)
National Taiwan University – 120yen Battle Furry (Taiwan) (0.4)
Sharif University of Technology – Sibilization (Iran) (1.0)
Amirkabir University of Technology – Zart PMP (Iran) (1.0)

14.  Asia Tokyo (3.3/2.19)
University of Tokyo – HITORI# (Japan) (0.7)
Shanghai Jiaotong University – Rhodea (China) (0.4)
National Taiwan University – Dont block me (Taiwan) (0.4)
Peking University – Catalyst (China) (0.4)
Kyoto University – d3sxp (Japan) (1.0)
Chiao Tung University – VVVVvvVVvvVVVVVVvvVV (Taiwan) (0.4) (Host 2009)

15.  Asia Wuhan (4.8/5.05)
Tsinghua University – AlphaCentauri (China) (0.7)
Zhejiang University – LAF (China) (0.7)
Southeast University – www.seuer.com (China) (1.0)
Peking University – Default (China) (0.7)
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications – Dinic (China) (0.7)
Harbin Institute of Technology – Tripler (China) (1.0)    (Host 2009)

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1.         “啟航講壇”第六十二期：
ACM——設計你的人生程序 (哈工程大學國家大學生文化素質教育基地)6月21日下午14時，校國家大學生文化素質教育基地，有幸邀請到全球ACM大學生軟件競賽亞洲區主任、美國德州州立大學計算機系資深教授黃金雄作客啟航講壇，為我校師生獻上一場題為“ACM-設計你的人生程序”的演講，從中國擁抱ACM-ICPC到《為什麽時光不能倒流》，黃教授向我們暢言自己的生命哲學及人生成功經驗。………黃教授提出：成功就像是一個由三條邊穩定支撐的三角形，它的三條邊分別是“天資”、“勤奮”和“情商導出的機運”。天資是生而就有、無法改變的，機運也不是總在路口等著你的一輛公交車，它需要你去爭取，所以勤奮就占了成功的很大比例。除此之外，黃教授自己，還有親子情的滋潤，使他心裏長存對父母的感恩和對子女的責任，使自己在平凡中活得不平凡。“困境是成功的前奏”，“不要放棄做夢的力量”，這是黃教授告訴我們的，而在所著的《為什麽時光不能倒流》這本心靈隨筆中，他用細膩、委婉的筆觸，尋找著記憶裏那些不能重來的感動。《十幾年了，我還在悲傷》、《牛車底下爬出來的嬰兒》、《我可以什麽都沒有，我只要孩子平安回家》、《我們為什麽來到這個世界上》，他就像是一個站在時光裏的睿智的學者，輕聲的呼喚人們心中那最原始、最美好的親情，告知我們來到這個世界的意義。

2.         Qzone Blog: 日誌 > 個人日記 《為什麼時光不能倒流 》 
前段時間一直很忙，最近終於靜下心來，仔細看完這篇文章。一個樸實細膩，一個個真實的故事娓娓道來，令人感動不已，也令我受教良多。所講述的經歷，雖然很簡短，但是卻蘊涵著深刻的人生哲理，特別是一些事情，仿彿把我帶回到自己的童年 .      人生還有很長的路，但依然要珍惜每一分每一秒，時光不能倒流，我將珍惜自己的身體，自己的生命，尊重周圍的人和事，堅持用奉獻讓心靈寧靜，做好自己心靈的雕塑！實現一個有意義的人生。

3. 學術講座“設計你的人生程序”在四川大學江安校區舉行
10月29日晚7：30，美國德州州立大學電腦系資深教授，ACM全球大學生軟件競賽亞洲區主任黃金雄教授來到四川大學江安校區，在綜合樓C503以“設計你的人生程序”為主題，介紹ACM大賽為目的，為我校同學帶來了一場生動而精彩的講座。
從ACM到ICPC
作為ACM全球大學生軟件編程大賽主席團委員，黃金雄教授向我們詳細地介紹了ACM和ICPC的發展歷史。ACM是全球最具有影響力的電腦賽事之一，被譽為電腦界的“奧林匹克”，ACM不僅為全球各高校計算機專業人才搭建了一個展示自我的舞臺，更提高了學生使用計算機的綜合能力，為社會挑選出許多優秀的計算機專業人才。ICPC則是世界高校程序機構，從1991年只有200多支參賽隊伍到08年的7000多支參賽隊伍，黃金雄教授付出了很多心血並見證了ICPC一路的成長。隨後，黃教授向大家講解了ACM大賽的參賽程序和比賽規則以及近十年來的發展情況。黃教授還向我們展示了國內高校在ACM世界大賽中獲得的驕人成績。講座中，黃教授的熱情感染了在座的每個同學，他多次鼓勵同學們積極參加ACM，努力展示自己。精彩的內容與詼諧的語言贏得了在場同學雷鳴般的掌聲。
時光不能倒流
此次講座並非整場圍繞ACM編程為話題，黃教授更多的使向同學們傳達一種宛如心靈雞湯式的他人生的成功哲學思想。關於如何贏得比賽，黃教授認為只有執著才能成功，他將成功比喻成一個由三條邊穩定支撐著的三角形：它的每條邊分別代表著天資，努力和情商機運，中間則填滿了智慧，形象的比喻使場內掌聲不斷。黃教授還勉勵同學們一定要利用好自己人生的時光努力拼搏，把握人生的機運，創造自己的未來，告誡我們不要把自己“畫”在線內，人的潛能是巨大的。講座中，黃教授以自己的親身經歷告訴我們應該從身邊的小事做起，才能擁有更大的成就。

關於ACMer的生命哲學及人生成功的啟發
黃教授極具親和力，平易近人，詼諧的語調，滿懷的熱情，幽默的性格，對於文學的鐘愛使整場講座一直處於一種活躍與輕松的氛圍當中。從ACMer中他悟出了人生的哲學，認為ACMer應具有培養成功的胸懷，在平凡中才能體現偉大，人生需要親情，友情，師生情等各種情感的滋潤，並和我們分享了許多獲獎人的心得體會，在場同學感觸頗深。黃教授教導大家一定要學會感恩，感激他人，並及時將它表達出來。講座中，黃教授飽含深情地為同學們朗讀了他自己的散文《十幾年了，我還在悲傷》，文中那種因母親臨終自己未能陪在母親身邊的遺憾與悲傷感染了在場每個同學，掌聲久久不能平息。鐘愛於文學的黃教授還向我們朗讀了他寫給兒子的一篇文章，表達出了父子之間那種真切的情感，讓我們很受感動。本次黃教授的講座成功地使得同學們對於ACM大賽有了清楚的認識與了解，讓同學們心靈受到了洗禮，從中學到了許多成功的人生哲學，對於同學們設立人生目標和規劃未來藍圖有很大的幫助。(記者：徐婧 攝影：謝豐豫)                                計算機學院•軟件學院學生記者團   

Sites for practicing ACM-ICPC Contest problems

I.      Most well-known public sites in China (Suggested by Liu ChunYing of HangDien University):

北京大学（PKU）：http://acm.pku.edu.cn/JudgeOnline/
杭州电子科技大学(HDU)：http://acm.hdu.edu.cn/
天津大学（TJU）：http://acm.tju.edu.cn/toj/
浙江大学（ZJU）：http://acm.zju.edu.cn/
武汉大学（WHU）：http://acm.whu.edu.cn/oak/
哈尔滨工业大学（HIT）：http://acm.hit.edu.cn/
福州大学（FZU）：http://acm.fzu.edu.cn/  

II. Most well-known public sites in Europe      (Suggested by Carlos M. Casas Cuadrado who collaborates with University of Valladolid):

Valladolid Online Judge (Spain): http://uva.onlinejudge.org/
Saratov State University (Russia): http://acm.sgu.ru/status.php
Timus Online Judge (Russia): http://acm.timus.ru/
Sphere Online Judge (Poland): http://www.spoj.pl/
High School Programming League (Poland): http://hs.spoj.pl/
ACM-ICPC Live Archive(Cuadrado & Revilla)                    
             http://cii-judge.baylor.edu/

III.   ACM-ICPC World Finals Problems :

Year 2009: http://cm.baylor.edu/resources/pdf/2009Problems.pdf
Other Years:http://cm.baylor.edu/ICPCWiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Problem%20Resources 

 ACM ICPC 2009 Taiwan Council  
1． 推動委員會主席--交大計網中心林盈達教授；推動委員會主席即為ACM ICPC Taiwan Council的主席。
2． 技術委員會主席--師大資工系李忠謀教授。
3.  黃金雄教授擔任ACM ICPC Taiwan Council的榮譽主席

4.  推動委員會成員：由各校決定是跟著職務而變更或固定在某位教授。  
(1) 師大資訊中心 吳正已主任
(2) 師大資工系 黃文吉主任
(3) 台大計資中心 孫雅麗 主任
(4) 交大計網中心 林盈達主任
(5) 清大資工系  金仲達 主任
(6) 中央資工系 蘇木春主任
(7) 成大計網中心 謝錫堃主任
(8) 成大資工系  鄭憲宗 主任
(9) 中山圖書與資訊處   楊昌彪 主任
(10) 政大資科系 李蔡彥主任
(11) 中正資工系  郭峻因 主任 

5. 技術委員會成員：由各校決定是跟著職務而變更或固定在某位教授。 
(1) 師大資工系 李忠謀教授
(2) 台大資工系 鄭卜壬教授
(3) 交大資工系 蔡錫鈞教授
(4) 交大資工系 黃世昆教授
(5) 清大資工系 韓永楷 教授
(6) 中央資工系 何錦文教授
(7) 成大資工系 謝孫源教授
(8) 中山資工系 楊昌彪教授
(9) 政大資科系 何瑁鎧教授
(10) 中正資工系 吳邦一教授
(11) 中央研究院 陳伶志教授  

ACM-ICPC Asia 2009 Regional Contest Dates Scheduling are completed.

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Updates will be posted if there are any changs.

Asia Specific Regional Contest Rules - March 2009
(Last Revision April 2009)
（ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2009; Sponsored by IBM ）

(I) Mission. The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
(ICPC) is an activity of the ACM that provides college students with
an opportunity to demonstrate and sharpen their problem-solving and
computing skills. The ACM/ICPC Asia Regional Contests invite Asian
students to meet, to establish friendships, and to promote fair
competition in programming.

(II) Fundamentals of the Rules of ICPC Regional Contests:Rules for the
Asia Regional Contests are additions to the rules of ACM ICPC Regional
Programming Contests and ICPC Steering Committee
Policies/Procedures（For ICPC Regionals and P/P, please refer to
hyperlink: http://icpc.baylor.edu/.)

(III) Additional Asia regional specific rules:

(A) Regional Contest Organization and Administration

1. The Asia Region covers all territories and countries in Asia, such
as Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, China,
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, India, Sri
Lanka, Burma, Vietnam, Macau, Mongolia, Pakistan, Bangladesh,
Afghanistan, and Iran, etc. Students in Central Asia and in Middle
East may participate Asia Contest with the approval of Asia Director.
2. Asia Regional Contests do not divide the region by political
territories. A team that advances to the Contest Finals represents the
team’s university, not the team’s political boundary.
3. The contest is a two-to-four-tiered competition among teams of
students representing institutions of higher education. The first tier
includes the Asia Regional Contests, which are held through September,
October, November and early December of each year. The top-scoring
team from each site of the Regional Contest automatically advances to
the Contest World Finals (the second tier). A pre-regional tier is
described in item 9 of this section titled "National, Provincial,
Invitational, and School Level Programming Contests".
4. The Asia Regional Contest is administered under the direction of
the "Asia Contests Director or Asia Director," who is charged with
executing Regional Contests within a set of rules and guidelines that
have been approved by the ACM ICPC Executive Director. The Asia
Contests Director selects several contest sites in Asia each year to
hold the Asia Regional Contests. The Asia Contests Director also
appoints one Site Director to head each Contest Site Steering
Committee. Site Directors are charged with responsibilities of
planning, organizing and executing the Regional Contests according to
ACM/ICPC Operational Guidelines.
All Asia Regional Contest hosts must have hosted National, or
Provincial contests before hosting the Asia Regional Contest.
5. Asia Super Region is organized as one single region -- Asia Region.
This unique regional organization in Asia promotes the cooperation of
all Asian contestants, and universities from all political boundaries.
The Asia Contests Director (also called Super Regional Director) also
appoints Local Area Contest Directors for National, Provincial, and
Invitational contests in the Asia Super Region.
6. The recommended organization of the Asia Regional Site Steering
Committee for each site usually consists of the following members:
Honorary Chairs (Optional)
Chair (Regional Contest Site Director)
Co-Chairs (Asia Director is, by default, one of the Co-Chairs)
Committee Coordinator or Associate Site Director (optional)
Chief Judge and Judging Team
System (Hardware/Software) Chair(s)
Registration Chair and Publicity Chair
Activities/Operation Chair
The Steering Committee for each contest site may implement additional
rules and a different committee organization pertaining to the contest
site. However, the consultation with the Asia Contests Director is
strongly recommended prior to the establishment of such rules or
organization.
7. Each University or college in Asia can organize teams to
participate in the contests at any site. However, a contestant can
participate, at most, in two (2) Asian contest sites during a contest
year. A contestant may not compete in Asia Regional Contests for more
than five (5) years. A contestant may not compete in World Finals for
more than two (2) years.
8. National, Provincial, Invitational, and School Level Programming
Contests (these contests are together called Local Area contests):
(a) Each country or larger territory area may organize a national,
provincial, or invitational programming contest with its winners
advancing to the Regional Contest. If the area organizes such
contests, the area’s contest committee decides the number of teams to
participate in the Asia regional site contest.
(b) National, Provincial, and Invitational Contests under ACM – ICPC
banner must obtain approval from Asia Contests Director. These
contests must put registration process under ACM-ICPC registration
umbrella. These contests must follow ACM-ICPC guidelines.
(c) All National, Provincial and Invitational contests will be all
grouped together in an independent contest site in Asia Region titled
“Asia Provincial-National contests”. They will not be organized under
any particular Asia site effective from January 2009 and their winners
will not be advanced to World Finals.
(d) A University or college may have a School Level Programming
Contest, with its winners advancing to the Local Area Programming
Contest (or Asia Regional Contests). School level programming contest
using ACM-ICPC banner must also obtain permission from Asia Contests
Director.
(e) A team may participate in the Asia Regional Contest, bypassing the
School, provincial, national levels, with the approval of the Regional
Contest Site Director.
9. Asia First Round Regional and Asia On-Site Regional:
(a) ACM - ICPC Asia Region has grown substantially in recent years.
On-Site Regional Contest usually cannot accommodate large numbers of
teams. It is also mandatory that each site accommodates all of
qualified registrations. To accomplish such goal, it is strongly
recommended that each site conducts two cycles of regional contests –
Asia First Round and Asia On-Site. Each site should conduct Asia First
Round Regional Contest in advance to select an appropriate number of
teams for the On-Site regional contest. Those teams not selected for
the On-Site Regional Contest will be ranked as honorary mentioned
teams in the Regional Final Ranking. Each Contest Site Director may
set up its own selection formula for teams to be advanced to On-Site
Regional Contest. Contest Site Director may also modify contest rules
for the First Round Regional Contest within ICPC guidelines, while
On-Site Regional Contest must follow Asia Rules and ICPC Regional
Contest Rules. It is also recommended that foreign teams may be
exempted from First Round Regional Contest.
(b) If the total registration is low and all teams can be accommodated
by On-Site Regional Contest, the First Round Regional Contest may be
skipped. (The selection formula used by China sites in the Appendix 2
is a good reference for all.)
(c) Multi-provincial Online Internet Contest and National Contest
hosted by Asia Regional host university are considered as Asia First
Round Regional Contest if these contests are used to select teams for
Asia On-Site Regional Contest. These Contests will be under the Asia
Regional First Round Contest and not be grouped together with “Asia
Provincial/National Contests”.
10. Rule of Eligibility Decision Tree:
(a) All contestants are urged to study the rule of the Eligibility
Decision Tree in ACM - ICPC Regional Rules for the eligibility of all
contestants through out the world. (http://icpc.baylor.edu/)
(b) Remarks on eligibility rule:Technically, it is possible that a
team may consist of three first-year graduate students if each of them
meets the rule qualification in a four-year program or university.
(c) Participation of two sites for the same year in Asia Regional
Contests is considered as one-time competition under the eligibility
rule. (Refer to item 7.)
11. The coach of a team must be a faculty or a designated staff member
of the team’s university. A coach from outside of the team’s
university will disqualify the team.
12. Because of the problem of ‘no-shows’ by teams who register and
confirm participation but do not actually participate in the contest,
it was decided that: If such team do not cancel their registration at
least ten (10) days before the contest date, and do not show up in the
contest, this team's contestants will be disqualified for all other
contest sites in the same contest year.
13. Registration: The university name of a team must be already in the
ICPC registration database before a team can register. The team coach
should request the Contest Site Director to ask ICPC manager to enter
the Team’s university name in the database if needed. This
registration prerequiste applies to both Asia Regional and local
contests.
Asia Regional contest registration normally begins right after World
Finals in the same year. However, the Provincial-National contest
registration can begin as early as January of the same year.
14. RCD meeting in World Finals. Asia Regional Directors or their
representatives are required to participate the RCD (Regional Contest
Directors) meeting scheduled in the World Finals Contest during the
same calendar year. If a new Site Director or his/her representative
does not participate in the World Finals RCD meeting, the Asia
Director may cancel its hosting authorization of the same calendar
year.
15. Verification of the Asia On-Site Regional Contest: The coach of
each team is required to verify and complete the personal information
of all contestants before the contest of the Asia On-Site Regional
(Final Round Regional) contest. Without such verification, the team
will not be accepted for Asia On-Site or Asia Final Round contest and
therefore be disqualified.

(B) Regional Contest Winning Team, Award and World Finals Slots

1. The one winning team of each contest will automatically advance to
the World Contest Finals and will receive partial travel support from
ACM and its sponsors.
2. Additional wildcard berths in the World Finals may be awarded to
any contest team in a site with high registration count, at the
discretion of the Asia Contests Director. The winners of the local
area contests, national or provincial, are not qualified for World
Finals Slots unless they are also the winners of the Asia Regional
Contests.
3. A university or college can have at most one qualified team that
advances to the World Finals.
4. In an effort to encourage the participation of female students in
Asia Regional Contests, the Asia Regional Contests Director will award
each female contestant a cash award of $100 or more if (1) the team
has three female contestants; and (2) the team is ranked in the top 10
of actual ranking and is the best female team in that contest site.
5. Each Contest Site Director may rank the teams approximately in the
top half. The rest of the teams will be acknowledged in alphabetical
order, but not ranked. The final ranking of the top half should
combine the rankings of universities as well as teams. Final standings
will first be ranked from the top team from each university/college.
Other teams from the same college will then be ranked as ties with
that of the next ranked team of another university. Each Contest Site
Director may select the first 6 or more universities to award special
prizes or may apply some good criteria to award teams.
6. Team Members Substitution in World Finals and in Regional
Contest:The team members for the team advanced to World Finals must be
identical to the members participated in the Regional Contest. No
substitution or reserves will be allowed in the World Finals. Any
alteration on the team will disqualify the team to the World Finals.
However, Regional Contest may allow reserve team member registration
and may allow the substitution of the team member in the regional
contest provided that the team composition change is entered in the
ICPC registration web site before the Regional Contest. Any change to
the team after that regional contest is not allowed.
7. The score of each contest site for determining # of wild cards to
World Finals is calculated by ICPC Executive Director. The major
weights of the calculation are# of universities and # of teams
registered and accepted in that contest site, especially in the Onsite
Contest and also in the First Round Contest. Other factors calculated
with smaller weights are registration counts of Local Area Programming
contests near that contest site including National, Provincial, and
Invitational programming contests.
8. Teams (host teams) from host universities of Asia Regional sites do
not have preference for world final slots. If the host team’s score is
very high and is very close to the qualifying line, and if there is
slot available, Asia Director may at his discretion give preferences
to these host teams. (The policy of host teams from China is governed
by resolution of China Council in appendix 4.)
9. Asia Director will recommend the World Finals wildcard berths to
ICPC Executive Director.

(C) Conduct, Scoring of the Contest, and Team # Assignments.
1. Contestants may bring their own keyboards with the approval of
contest site director. The team is responsible for any trouble
installing its own keyboards. Contest Site Director may reject such
request.
2. Electronic dictionaries are not allowed. Paper dictionaries,
however, may be allowed. Contest Site Director may alter this rule;
The World Finals rule on reference materials may be different from
this rule.
3. No personally owned diskettes or calculators are allowed.
4. Questions or requests written in a language other than English may
be made from contestants to designated translators and then to judges.
Judges will respond to contestants directly in English.
5. Notification of accepted runs may be suspended at the appropriate
time (normally one hour before the end) to keep the final results
confidential for the purpose of suspension. Notification of rejected
runs will continue until the end of the contest.
6. It is recommended that the team numbers should be assigned randomly
before the contest. Team numbers should be used in PC^2. University
names should not be used in the PC^2 and should not be revealed to the
judging team during the contest. The Contest Site Director is
responsible for posting the matching list of team numbers and
university names in the audience area within 60 minutes after the
contest starts. Contest Site Directors may contact Asia Contests
Director to find out an efficient way of random assignment of team
numbers.

ACM-ICPC Asia Specific Rules II of II (繼續亞洲賽規則)

(D) Judging Team and Contest Problem Creation

1. The Chief Judge and Site Director of each contest site are
responsible for organizing the judging team. No member of the judging
team should be the coach of any contest team. It is highly recommended
that the judging team consist of faculty from other universities
and/or industry professionals. The use of an international judging
team is also encouraged, if possible. The size of the judging team is
recommended to be equal to the number of contest problems in the
contest.
2. The Chief Judge and the Contest Site Director make a final decision
in selecting the contest problems, in modifying the submitted contest
programs, or in adding additional contest problems. To ensure
fairness, it is highly recommended that contest problems should not be
selected from faculty whose university is participating in the
contest. Especially, the contest problem submitted by a team coach
must not be selected.
3. The Chief Judge is encouraged to take care that there is one
problem in the set that is fairly easy, and at least one or two
problems are medium difficulty since the wild cards distribution
formula will probably count only the teams that have solved at least
one problem.
4. All contest problems in Asia Sites must be written in English only.
No multiple languages are allowed in creating contest problems
effective from May 1, 2009.

(E) Contest Environment

1. The contest language software will be made available by Contest
Site Director to the contestants in advance of the Regional Contests.
More specific details on the contest environment, including RAM and
hardware configurations, software versions, and printers will be
announced by the Contest Site Director and may be different from those
used in World Finals.
2. Contest judging software PC Square (eg, PC^2) will be provided
from ACM-ICPC website http://www.ecs.csus.edu/pc2/pc2code.html

(F) Registration Fee
The Steering Committee of each contest site determines the
registration fee of each team. In previous years, the regional
registration fee ranged from US$0 to US$150 around the world.

(IV) Submitting documents.

At the end of the contest, each Regional Site Director is required to
submit the following two items to ICPC web site:1. Contest Ranking:
University names, problems solved, and time consumed.2. Contest
Problems3. Each Regional Site Director is to submit the following
items to Asia Director if requested: At least ten photos containing
contestant activities, and five photos containing officer's
activities.

(V) Guidelines for Travel Stipend for financially poor teams
1. In order to encourage Asian teams of financially poor universities
to participate ICPC Asia contests, the Asia Contests Director prepares
limited budget each year to tokenly support limited number of teams
traveling to Asia contest sites from financially poor universities.
All women team may also apply for such travel support. These supports
are only for teams attending Asia on-site or first round Regionals
contests.
2. Teams from financially poor universities may apply for such travel
stipends before the Regional Contests. Forms may be available from
Site Directors or Asia Contests Director. The travel stipends support
checks may be given at the contest site or after the contests are over
and written in US Bank checks only. The checks will be issued to the
team coaches according to the data provided during registration.
3. This Travel Stipend Policy is a guideline. Asia Contests Director
reserves the right to modify the guideline or not to issue any travel
supports.

(VI) Industrial Sponsorships and Acknowledgement.

1. ACM/ICPC has received major sponsorship from IBM since July 1997
for World Finals events, ICPC organization and regional contest
activities, ICPC web site and the development of PC^2. IBM also
provides additional funds available to support part of the regional
contest activities for each site.
2. The Asia Regional Contests are self-supporting for each contest
site. Each Regional Contest Site Director is responsible for obtaining
financial support from local industries, government entities, and
universities in addition to IBM support.
3. All regional Contests must award ACM-ICPC/IBM certificates, use
ICPC/IBM badges, and provide conforming ICPC/IBM T-shirts. All
Regional Contests must comply with ICPC/IBM sponsoring agreements
regardless of whether ICPC/IBM sponsored funding, or local IBM funding
is provided.

(VII) Appendices

Appendix 1: Each regional contest site director must sign the
following acknowledgement each year for confirming IBM Sponsorship:
Letter To Asia Site Directors from Asia Director
******** Beginning of Letter
Dear Asia 2009 Directors: July 1, 2009
Every year we have new hosts, new directors, and new coordinators for
theAsia Regional contests. Most of the new volunteers attended the
recentRCD symposium at the World Finals. Yet, the knowledgeable
volunteers may not be the persons in charge of contest operations.
These scenarios had caused some violations of ACM-ICPC guidelines.
Some of these violations are listed as follows:
(a) IBM sponsorship was not clearly displayed. The IBM logowas not
clearly printed on T-shirts, on bags, or on the contestmaterials
including the regional contest web site.
(b) IBM was not being acknowledged as the primary sponsor.
As you all know, ACM-ICPC has contract with IBM as the sole sponsor of
theWorld Finals, and primary sponsor of the worldwide regional
contests. You may obtain additional sponsors for Asia Regional
contest. Even if you have not obtained support from the local IBM
office, IBM must be acknowledged as the primary sponsor for your Asia
Regional Contests.
In order to prevent such violation from happening, I am asking you to
sign onthe attached “Acknowledgement” on the second page of this file
before Iauthorize release of the IBM funding to you. Many of you have
followed theguidelines very well for all these years. Please bear with
me to sign the“Acknowledgement” for fairness. Those of you have
followed guidelines well and you are the one in charge of contest
operation, one signature (yours) is enough. Those of you are new
contest sites or have not followed guidelines, I need two signatures
from you. One can be coordinator in charge of operation, and one must
be either Dean, Vice President, or Director who is supervising the
contest expenses. After you sign the “Acknowledgement”, please e-mail
me the image. I do not need the original. Or you can fax to my
electronic fax number in the US.
Thanks,
C J Hwang, ACM-ICPC Asia Director
*******Beginning of Acknowledgement
“Acknowledgement Asia 2009”I (we) understand that ACM-ICPC has
contract with IBM that IBM is theWorld Sponsor and is the primary
(first) sponsor for ICPC Asia Regional contests including my (our)
ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest Site.
We will put the “ACM-ICPC Asia Regional sponsored by IBM logo” on all
of ourcontest material including the web site and banners. We
acknowledge that we will put IBM as the primary sponsor for our
contest. The IBM and ACM-ICPC logo will be clearly displayed. It will
be clearly printed on T-shirts, on bags, and on contest materials as
the primary sponsor. In cases where only sponsor logos are displayed,
the IBM logo will be displayed first, and be of equal size of other
sponsor logos.
We acknowledge that we will use the IBM fund to purchase T-shirts and
bags(optional) for the contestants, and prizes for the winners. We
also acknowledge that IBM is to be recognized for the prizes purchased
using IBM funds.
Contest Site: ______________________
Signature 1 (2008 Coordinator in charge of operation and banner logo
decoration): ________________
Date: _________________
Signature 2 (2008 Dean, Vice President, or Director who is
supervisingthe contest expenses.): ______________________
Date: __________________
******* End of Acknowledgement

Appendix 2: Formula recommended in selecting teams from Online
Internet Contest to On-site Contest for ACM-ICPC China Sites (Nov
2008):
1) The team selection based on online internet contest is school-based
(university/college based).
a) The school's ranking is the highest ranking team of the school;
b) About 60% of the schools of a contest site will be selected based
on the internet online contest. Each of these schools will have one
team selected to the on-site regional contest.
2) The team selected from the advanced school may not be the same team
who obtained the highest score because the online contest is not
supervised. The team advanced will be decided by the coaches of the
school and by school teams themselves. If school cannot decide the
team, contest site director may make decision for them.
3) If a school has been ranked in world finals during the past three
years, then the school can get an additional on-site slot;
4) This year and next year's Asian regional hosts can send three teams
to all sites.
5) The host universities for Provincial and inter-provincial contests
can also get an additional slot if the contest has at least 10 schools
and 50 teams.
6) The best women's team of provincial contest will auto advance to
on-site regional contest.
7) If the school participates problem set creation, the school will
not be ranked in that site, however, the school will be allowed to
send more teams to other sites.
8) Contest should be held in a place which can accommodate at least 90
teams (such as the school's Indoor Stadium)

Appendix 3: Visa preparation for the Advancing Team:
The team advanced to the World Finals must obtain passport immediately
and must apply visa as soon as possible. It is strongly recommended
that the team must prepare the following documents for Visa
application, especially to USA or to Canada:
1) Print ACM / ICPC background information from ICPC website.
2) Read all Visa information from ICPC Website.
3) Present invitation letter and support letter from ICPC and the
support letter from IBM.
4) Get an official letter of support from your university for each of
your party.
5) If you have a scholarship or other grant that supports you as a
student, get an official letter verifying that fact.
6) Present the winning certificate.
7) Present your and your family's financial situation. For example,
you or your parents have a large amount of money in a savings account.
8) Present proof that you have traveled to other countries and you
have returned to your own country.
9) Present the letters from your university regarding your financial support.
10) Present the letters from university for verifying the contestants
are full-time students and will obtain their degree from the same
university.
11) Present detail air travel itinerary for the trip.

Appendix 4:Special Rules for Contest Sites in China
ACM-ICPC Council China has passed several resolutions for contests in
China. Asia Director had approved the following items applicable only
in Mainland China.
A) Translation of some resolutions from item B below.
1) A team is not allowed to advance to World Finals from a contest
site where the team's university is a host. However, that host
university may receive some priority consideration if their teams'
ranking in other site is very close to the World Finals qualifying
line.
2) A team is not allowed to advance to World Finals from a contest
site if the problem creation of the site is helped by a faculty from
the University of that Team.
3) All Asia Regional Contest hosts must have done National or
Provincial contest before hosting the Asia Regional Contest.
B) Complete list of resolutions (from 2006 to 2008 Winter) in
Traditional Chinese:
ACM-ICPC中國區特別規則(2006–2008 Jan.)
1. World Finals中國區出線規則(2006 ACM-ICPC中國區Spring論壇紀要):
(a)經討論通過了對出線規則的修改,即承辦學校只能從其他賽區獲得出線名額，並且在其他賽區享有一定的優惠條件。
2.中國區通過如下亞洲賽實施細則: (中國區指導委員會2007Summer會議紀要):
(a)由中國科技大學承辦2008年亞洲區特別賽區,只有在近五年內未參加過全球總決賽的學校才有資格爭取特別賽區的唯一一個出線名額(Asia
Director may give more than one slots if registration is very large),
在近五年內曾參加過總決賽的學校也可以參賽，但不計名次。
(b)今後申請主辦亞洲區賽的條件為:
(i)在承辦亞洲區賽之前承辦省賽或省際邀請賽;
(ii)亞洲區賽應列為校級賽事,並建議應由校級領導擔負組委會主任;
(iii) (Omitted; see item D)
(c)有關網絡預賽目的為選擇學校為主。
(i)每個學校只取排序最高的隊的進行排序;
(ii)按學校排序在容量的60%的隊自動有一隊晉級現場賽;
(iii) & (iv) Omitted; see item C.
(d)建議在競賽題目中至少有一題簡單題,不可解題數小於或等於2,題目按難易程度的大致比例為:易20~30%,中50%,難30~20%
(e)金、銀、銅獎的頒獎比例為參加隊數的10%, 20%和30%。 (Asia Director suggests ratio of
9%, 16%, and 25%)
3.中國區參加亞洲賽區的現場賽名額(2007 ACM-ICPC中國區Fall論壇紀要):經討論,
參會代表對地區預選賽and網絡預賽的擇隊原則進行了修改,符合如下條件的學校可以獲得額外的參賽名額：(a)
近三年內在總決賽取得名次的學校可以增加一隊;
(b)亞洲區賽承辦學校可增加一隊;
(c)省賽和省際賽承辦單位可在所在賽區增加一個參賽名額，原則上要求現場賽參賽學校大於或等於10,且參賽隊數大於或等於50。
(d)在省賽(現場賽)或省際賽(現場賽)中取得女隊第一名的（且總排名在前三分之一）可直接參加所在亞洲賽區的現場賽。
(e)亞洲區賽承辦單位認可的其他條件。
4.中國區通過並經黃金雄博士批准增加如下亞洲賽實施細則:(2008 ACM-ICPC中國區Winter論壇紀要):
(a)參與出題的學校不參加ICPC排名(不能在該賽區出線)
(b)所有特邀隊不參加任何排名不得任何獎(特邀隊不在ICPC註冊系統中註冊)
(c)原則上建議在競賽題目中至少有兩題是簡單題
(d)設立優秀命題獎
(e)比賽應集中在一個至少容納90隊的場地內進行(如學校的體育館等)
(f)競賽數據必須提供給指導委員會但不公開
(g)參賽費提前收費
(h)對於違反參賽資格規定，
(i)將通報違例情況，取消該校在當年中國內地各賽區成績(effective 2007)
(ii)並在下一年的中國內地各賽區禁賽一年。 (effective 2008)
(End of Rules)

Registration to begin around April 25 - May 1, 2009

Director, Asia, Manila Site
Professor Rafael P. Saldaña, rsaldana@ateneo.edu

ACM-ICPC Asia Manila Contest Director

Contest information: raffysaldana@gmail.com

Voice: +63-2-4266125
Fax: +63-2-4266125
Mobile Phone: +63-928-5043121
School of Science and Engineering
Ateneo de Manila University
Loyola Heights, Quezon City 1108
Philippines

Director, Asia, Ningbo Site
Prof. Jiangang Yang, Vice President, yangjg@cs.zju.edu.cn
Asia Ningbo Contest Associate Director
Prof. Zhihuan Song, zhsong@iipc.zju.edu.cn

Asia Ningbo Contest Assistant Directors
Prof. Hong Zheng, zheng56@cise.zju.edu.cn
Prof. Xiaogang Jin, xiaogangj@cise.zju.edu.cn
Minglun Cai, mlcai@nit.net.cn, Coordinator
Dept. of Information Science and Engineering
Ningbo Institute of Technology,Zhejiang University
Voice (office): +86-574-88229506
Voice (mobile): +86-139-6830-0772
Fax: +86-574-88229505
No.1, Qianhu South Road
Ningbo 315100
P.R. China

Director, Asia, Phuket Site

Prof. Dr.Chusak Limsakul ,Dean, chusak.l@psu.ac.th

Asia Phuket Contest Director
Dr. Wannarat Suntiamorntut, wannarat@coe.psu.ac.th
Asia Phuket Contest Associate Director
Thammaratt Samitalampa, thammaratt@coe.phuket.psu.ac.th
Asia Phuket Contest Associate Director
Amarin Deemagarn, amarin@coe.phuket.psu.ac.th
Asia Phuket Contest Coordinator
Dept. of Computer Engineering
Prince of Songkla University, Phuket Campus

Voice (office): +66-76276197

Voice (mobile): +66-816968415
Fax: +66-76276102
80 M.1 Vichitsongkram RD. Kathu

Phuket 83120,

Thailand.
Director, Asia, Seoul Site
Professor Kyung-Yong Chwa, kychwa@jupiter.kaist.ac.kr
Contest information: acmicpc@cs.kaist.ac.kr
Voice: +82-42-869-3513
Fax: +82-42-869-3510
ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest-Seoul
Department of Computer Science
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu
Daejeon 305-701
Korea

Director, Asia, Shanghai Site
Prof. Tianchu Chen, Vice Prsident
ACM-ICPC Asia Shanghai Contest Director
Guojin Zhu, gjzhu.dhu@163.com
ACM-ICPC Asia Shanghai Contest Chief Judge
School of Computer Science and Technology
Donghua University
Voice (office): +86-21- 67792489
Voice (mobile):   +86-13564527721
Fax: +86-21-67792106
1882 West Yan-an Road
Shanghai 200051
P.R. China
Director, Asia, Tehran Site
Professor Mohammad Ghodsi, ghodsi@sharif.ir
Voice: +98-21-6616-4625/6600-5616
Fax: +98-21-6601-9246
ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest - Tehran
Computer Engineering Department
Sharif University of Technology
Tehran 11365-9517
Iran

Director, Asia, Tokyo Site
http://
Professor KAKEHI Katsuhiko     
ACM-ICPC Asia Tokyo Contest Director
e-mail: kakehi@waseda.jp

Ryuichi Takahashi, Chief Coordinator
e-mail: ryu1-t@fuka.info.waseda.ac.jp

Waseda University
Voice: +81-3-5286-3344
Fax: +81-3-5285-7680
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
School of Fundamental Science and Engineering
Waseda university

Tokyo

Japan

Director Asia, Wuhan Site

Prof Hailiang GU, President, Contest Director

Prof Yanxiang HE, yxhe@whu.edu.cn

Asia Wuhan Assistant Director

Prof Chuanhe HUANG, huangch@whu.edu.cn

Asia Wuhan Assistant Director

Prof Wenyong DONG, hubei_001@163.com

Asia Wuhan Contest Coordinator

Voice: +86-27-6338-2399

Mobil: +86-135-1725-2141

Fax: +86-27-6877-8525

No. 129, Luoyu Road

Department of Computer Science and Technology

Wuhan University

Wuhan, Hubei Province 430079

P. R. China

 

Registration to begin around April 25 - May 1, 2009

Registration to begin around April 25 - May 1, 2009

Director, Asia Contests
Professor C. Jinshong Hwang, cjHwang@TxState.edu
ACM/ICPC Asia Director
Voice: +1-512-245-3409
Fax: +1-512-245-8750
Department of Computer Science
Nueces Building 247
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX 78666
USA

Director, Asia, Amritapuri Site
Professor Vallath Nandakumar, nandakumar@amritapuri.amrita.edu
ACM-ICPC Asia Amritapuri Contest Director
Voice: +91-476-2896318 Ex2315
Fax: +91-476-2896178
Professor Anand Shenoy, ammasanand@amritapuri.amrita.edu
Voice: +91-944-705-7140
Fax : +91-471-289-6318
Chairman, Department of Information Technology
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus
Clappana P.O., Kollam, Kerala State 690 525
India

Director, Asia, Dhaka Site
Professor Abul L. Haque, ahaque@northsouth.edu
ACM-ICPC Asia Dhaka Contest Director
Voice: +880-2-988-5611
Fax: +880-2-882-3030
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
North South University
Dhaka 1213
Bangladesh

Director, Asia, Harbin Site

Prof. Yu Zhou, Vice Prsident
Asia Harbin Contest Director
Prof. Xiwen Zhao, zhaoxw@hit.edu.cn
Asia Harbin Contest Associate Director
Prof. Kuanquan Wang, wangkq@hit.edu.cn
Asia Harbin Contest Associate Director
Dalie Sun, sdl@hit.edu.cn
Asia Harbin Contest Assistant Director
Dept. of Computer Science and Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology
Voice (office): +86-451-86413309
Voice (mobile): +86-139-3616-9569
Fax: +86-451-86413309
No.92, Xidazhi Street, Nangang District
Harbin 150001
P.R. China

Director, Asia, Hefei Site

Prof. Ming Lu, Vice Prsident
ACM-ICPC Asia Hefei Contest Director
Prof. Yu Dong, ydong@ustc.edu.cn
ACM-ICPC Asia Hefei Contest Associate Director
Guangzhong Sun, gzsun@ustc.edu.cn
ACM-ICPC Asia Hefei Contest Assistant Director
Dept. of Computer Science and Technology
University of Science and Technology of China
Voice (office): +86-551-3603747
Voice (mobile): +86-138-5518-4147
Fax: +86-551-3601013
No.96, Jinzhai Street
Hefei 230026
P.R. China

Director, Asia, Hsinchu Site

Professor Ying-Dar Lin, ydlin@cs.nctu.edu.tw

ACM-ICPC Asia Hsinchu Director

Contest information: icpc2009@mail.nctu.edu.tw

Professor Shih-kun Huang, skhuang@cs.nctu.edu.tw,

Asia Hsinchu Deputy Director

Voice: +886-35-573-1900

Fax: +886-35-571-4031

ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest-Hsinchu

Computer and Network Center

National Chiao Tung University

1001 University Road

Hsinchu

Taiwan

Director, Asia, Jakarta Site
Professor Sablin Yusuf, Dean, sablin@binus.edu
ACM-ICPC Asia Jakarta Contest Director
Raymond Kosala, RKosala@binus.edu
Contest Site Deputy Director
School of Computer Science
Faculty of Computer Studies
Voice: +62-21-535-0660 ext.2234
Binus University
Jl. KH Syahdan No. 9
Kemanggisan - Palmerah
Jakarta 11480
Indonesia

Director, Asia, Gwalior-Kanpur Site
Professor Phalguni Gupta, pg@cse.iitk.ac.in
Contest information: acm@cse.iitk.ac.in
Voice: +91-512-2597-252
Fax: +91-512-2590-413
ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest-Kanpur
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur 208 016
India

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亞洲隊參加STOCKHOLM世界大賽的名單

Asia Teams Advanced to ACM-ICPC 2009 World Finals Stockholm (35 Teams)

A.   Schools Recommended to World Finals

1: Amirkabir University of Technology ==> Ballons Keepers

2: Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior ==> brute force
3: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology ==> BUET Falcon
4: Beijing Jiaotong University ==> BJTU_ImBa
5: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications ==> Tracer

6: Bina Nusantara University ==> Pandemonium
7: College of Technology, VNU, Hanoi ==> TheLastChance
8: East China University of Science and Technology ==> Kernel
9: Fudan University ==> HyperHexagon
10: Huazhong University of Science and Technology ==> SolarEclipse
11: International Institute of Information Technology,Hyderabad ==> The King's Gambit

12: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ==> (So Hot)
13: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ==> NTU KbPeckers

14: Nanjing University ==> Tuners
15: National Taiwan University ==> Fill it please

16: National University of Singapore ==> NUSOC1

17: Northsouth University ==> NSU ARCTURUS
18: Peking University ==> Eccentric

19: Saitama University ==> Maximum-Coffee-X
20: Seoul National University ==> HP^3
21: Shanghai Jiaotong University ==> Carriage

22: Sharif University of Technology ==> Anaconda Tigers of SUT
23: Sichuan University ==> WinWill
24: South China University of Technology ==> SCUT_SE_Scintilla
25: The Chinese University of Hong Kong ==> E++
26: The University of Aizu ==> Watch.c
27: The University of Hong Kong ==> Far
28: The University of Tokyo ==> HITORI++  
29: Tianjin University ==> TJU_HanoiTower
30: Tsinghua University ==> Proxima
31: University of Dhaka ==> DU Dark knights
32: Wuhan University ==> ChaeYeon
33: Zhejiang University ==> Zodiac
34: Zhejiang University of Technology ==> Saigo
35: Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University ==> ZSU_Metatron

B.   Runner Up Teams:

36: University of Science, VNU-HCM ==> HCMUS-Vision

37: University of Moratuwa – Sri Lanka ==> 3_amigos

38: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati ==> G

39: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ==> HKUST1

40: Southeast University ==> seu_team3

41: Northwestern Polytechnical University ==> acaczac

42: Waseda University ==> na[^k]

43: Iran University of Science & Technology ==> God of Sooti

           C. For More Detail, Please Browse:

http://icpcasia.blogspot.com/search/label/Asia%20Teams%20Advanced%20to%20ACM-ICPC%202009%20World%20Finals%20Stockholm

Formula recommended in selecting teams from Online Internet Contest to On-site Contest for ACM-ICPC China Sites (Nov 2008):

1) The team selection based on online internet contest is school-based (university/college based).
a) The school's ranking is the highest ranking team of the school;
b) About 60% of the schools of a contest site will be selected based

     on the internet online contest. Each of these schools will have one

     team selected to the on-site regional contest.

2) The team selected from the advanced school may not be the same team who obtained the highest score because the online contest is not supervised. The team advanced will be decided by the coaches of the school and by school teams themselves. If school cannot decide the team, contest site director may make decision for them.

3) If a school has been ranked in world finals during the past three years, then the school can get an additional on-site slot;

4) This year and next year's Asian regional hosts can send three teams to all sites.

5) The host universities for Provincial and inter-provincial contests can also get an additional slot if the contest has at least 10 schools and 50 teams.

6) The best women's team of provincial contest will auto advance to on-site regional contest.

7) If the school participates problem set creation, the school will not be ranked in that site, however, the school will be allowed to send more teams to other sites.

8) Contest should be held in a place which can accommodate at least 90 teams (such as the school's Indoor Stadium)

黃金雄博士-西傑簡介C. Jinshong (CJ) Hwang, Ph.D.
In Traditional Chinese

National Taiwan University, B.S.

National Taiwan University, M.S.

National Taiwan University, Graduate Teaching Assistant

Louisiana State University, Ph.D.

Harvard University Business Administration, Leadership Research

Some Univesities in USA, Instructor and Assistant Professor

Purdue University, Associate Professor

University of Maryland, Visiting Associate Professor

Texas State University, Computer Science Chairman

Texas State University, Computer Science Full Professor

Special Topics Speaker, Information Institute for Industires,

            “System Structured Analysis and Structured Design”

Special Topics Speaker, Mechanical and System Research Lab, ITRI,

            “System Structured Analysis and Structured Design”

Special Topics Speaker, Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology”,

            “System Structured Analysis and Structured Design”

Special Topics Speaker, Several Government Agencies in Taiwan,

           “Software Engineering Design”

Software Engineer, Companies in USA

System Senior Advisor, Companies in USA

Author and Co-Author of Scores of Computer Science Articles

Author and Co-Author of Several Computer Science Textbooks

Harbin Engineering University, Visiting Professor

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Visiting Professor

Conference Chair, ACM/Computer Science Conference 91

Director of Asia Contests, ACM/ICPC

Steering Committee, ACM/ICPC World Finals

International Steering Committee, ACM/ICPC World Finals

Co-Director, ACM/ICPC Asia Region Contests of scores of

            well known Asian universities.

Chair, ACM-ICPC China Council

Speaker for Lecture Tours in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Asia:

Topics: “ Asia- China Embracing ACM-ICPC”

Author of Chinese Literature Book, “Why Time Can Not Flow Back!”

Author of Chinese Literature Book,

              “Calling: Searching For the Touching Memory”

 

 

黃金雄（西傑）博士簡介


•國立台灣大學學士

  國立台灣大學碩士

•國立台灣大學研究生助教

•美國路易斯安那州立大學博士

•美國哈佛大學研究

•美國大學講師、助理教授

•美國普渡大學副教授

•美國馬里蘭大學客座副教授

•美國德州州立大學計算機科學系資深教授

•美國德州州立大學計算機科學系主任

•資訊工業策進會結構化分析設計及數據庫設計等專題講座

•工業研究院機械工業研究所結構化分析設計專題講座

•中山科學院結構化分析設計專題講座

•台灣數所政府機構及研究機構軟件工程專題講座

•美國大公司軟件工程師

•美國公司資訊科學首席顧問

•哈爾濱工程大學客座教授、上海交通大學客座教授

• ACM大學生軟件編程競賽中國賽區指導委員會主任

•亞洲數十所名大學ACM軟件競賽執委會共同主任

•全球ACM大學生軟件競賽亞洲區主任

• ACM全球大學生軟件編程競賽主席團委員

•著作數十篇電腦專題論文

•著作數本大學電腦教科書

•兩岸及亞洲數十所大學高校巡迴演講「Asia／China Embracing

ACM／ICPC」專題講座

• 《為什麼時光不能倒流》作家作者

• 《呼喚：尋找記憶中的感動》作家作者

兩岸出版社的編輯都稱讚西傑黃金雄教授是

是作家，詩人，教育家，數學家，也是電腦科學家

ACM ICPC 2009 Asia Contest Dates

The contest dates will be updated frequestly when they become known. Please click the above link.

《呼喚：尋找記憶中的感動》讀後感 6

  { Note:  “為什麽時光不能倒流”  (簡版) = “呼喚：尋找記憶中的感動 }”

1. 網友: Oats Sunny       
    修了1000年，得到一個現場聆聽您(黄教授)講座的機遇。引起了我內心強烈的共鳴，我生活中是一個常念親恩，常懷感激的人，但是您的講座給了我更多的思考和感動，謝謝您。這是我聽過的最為精彩的講座之一，…… 謝謝黃教授真誠、精彩、樸實、深情的分享！

2.     博客: On The Way
« 為什麽時光不能倒流 節選之19.阿娘在教務處的淚水»       
    有幸讀到臺灣旅美計算機博士黃金雄先生的書《為什麽時光不能倒流》，深受感動。書名來源於作者因為在國外的工作而未能在母親彌留之際陪伴在她的身邊，而無盡的憂傷於為什麽時光不能夠倒流，可以彌補而不至於遺憾終生。
    書中充滿了我們的文明最尊崇的家庭，親情。雖然過去的日子因為物質匱乏而過得艱辛，但是那段日子因為有母親的疼愛而成為最珍貴的時光。讀到母親為了作者的大哥能夠進入師範學校學習，在炎熱的夏日在教務處苦等，落淚哀求，也為此而唏噓不已，這就是中國母親的奉獻精神吧，在傳統文化中，男性是要保持尊嚴的，不可以低眉折腰，可是女性為不公平現象就要犧牲尊嚴似乎就是應該的，可以理解的。
    但是身為母親的她們，也一樣是有尊嚴的，只是由於歷史原因而不能接受教育的她們，其實更是我們文化的脊梁，因為她們有更多的付出。        同時也可看到作者將愛傳遞到下一代中去的點點滴滴，作者為了教育好子女而付出的辛勤，為了子女取得的成績而歡呼，為了孩子們帶來的喜悅及萬物的奇妙而衷心感激。

3.    博客: 微物之神頻道- 抓蝦
   《為什麽時光不能夠倒流》，細細讀完，賺了我好些眼淚，也更多地明白了很多事情，這是一本寫給父親、母親看的書，是寫給做兒做女的看的書，更是每個人都應該一讀的好書，很多東西，只有在失去的時候才覺得彌足珍貴，但逝者一去，空剩下了悲傷的人，很多事情，只有在釀成錯誤之後才會後悔，可後悔又有什麽用呢。西傑先生用他的人生體驗為我們講述了許多很微小的事情，卻讓我們感觸良深。      
   生活中那無處不在的神靈，始終讓我無限感恩。我也在經常想，為什麽時光不能倒流呢，可以讓我再聽到阿媽的搖籃曲，可以讓我再回到童年的那個小果園，桑樹，菜田，父親。

風箏，屋頂，阿娘的風箏線 
黃金雄(西杰) 
    
    爸爸很懷念你及你妹妹在小學時期，每逢春末夏初放風箏的日子，我總是帶著你們到校園裡放風箏。美國大中小學的校園，週末期間都是開放的。教室及建築物雖是鎖著，偌大的校園卻是民眾享受休閒的一個地點。也許是民眾的公德心比較高，我很少看到校園被破壞或被弄髒。春末夏初的風不大不小，而且徐徐吹來，是放風箏最好的風速，晚霞分外紅的夏日傍晚，也是放風箏的好辰。     

    當我躺在草坪上，享受徐徐清風，看著你和你妹妹既高興又緊張地緊緊抓著風箏的線，我有著說不出的幸福感。有時風過大，你的妹妹還會高喊著要我幫忙去抓風箏線。與你們享受放風箏的日子，大概延續到你們初中的年紀。就在那段日子，我也常細說我小時候爬到屋頂撿風箏及放風箏的故事給你們聽。那時候我在家鄉玩的風箏，大部分都是自己做的。孩子們大的教小的，一代接一代傳授做風箏的方法。

    做風箏之前，我們每個人花幾角錢去竹子店買三到四根竹子，竹子的長度決定風箏的大小。接著去紙店買較堅韌的風箏紙，另外還準備漿糊及一把削竹子的刀，及數張剪成三或四吋（英寸，1吋＝2.54公分）見方的厚紙。這些厚紙是用來固定竹子使其緊黏在風箏紙上。當沒錢買漿糊時，還可用熟米來代替。   
   
 製作風箏的第一步，就是拿刀子把風箏的主幹削乾淨。通常風箏的主幹若以一呎六吋作為風箏的高度，那麼主幹寬大約要留半吋。要註意的是，主幹不能削得太薄，才能撐得起風吹，而且主幹的上下都要保留一樣的厚度。至於風箏左右翼的製作，則需要一點小技巧。有的人是拿一根與主幹等長且圓柱狀的竹子末梢，然後用刀子把圓形的竹末梢削得從頭到尾的直徑都一樣，這樣用來做風箏左右翼才會平衡。因為很多竹子店不賣有彈性的圓形竹末梢，所以我們就買長竹片，用刀削得很薄，可以彎成弓形，長度則保留大約與主幹同長。竹子削好之後，用漿糊及厚紙把主幹黏在風箏紙上，而風箏紙從上角到下角剪成菱形。等主幹的漿糊乾了之後，再糊左右翼。再將已削得很扁的竹子，把它彎成弓形，再沿著菱形紙的上面兩邊，用厚紙黏在風箏上，再用手緊緊按住厚紙，讓竹片及風箏紙緊密黏合，一直到漿糊乾了為止。此時，主幹及左右翼在風箏紙上，共同形成像「巾」字的結構，就表示風箏做成了。最後用風箏線在主幹上綁兩條線，讓主幹與兩條風箏線形成一個直角三角形，而直角邊則垂直在主幹竹及弓形竹的交接處。完成後，拿起線端，看看風箏的左右翼是否平衡，如果平衡有問題，黏上一些厚紙在較輕的一邊，就可取得平衡。    
   
我的老家是一排牆壁連在一起的舊式房子，共有十二間連成一個弧形，全是一層樓的房子，屋頂由紅褐色磚瓦蓋成，而且每間房子都蠻深的。前門是開店用的，整排房子前面則是一條大街，後門接著一條較窄的道路。屋頂從前門到後門共分兩部分：屋頂前半部比較高，但雨水向兩邊流，前半部屋瓦的最高處是由磚塊砌成的一排兩個磚塊高的矮磚牆，人可以在上面走動修屋頂；後半部房子的屋頂也是一樣，有一排矮磚牆，使雨水往兩邊流，但屋頂高度較矮，不過人也可以在磚牆上面走。前半部的屋頂及後半部的屋頂形成一個英文字母「Ｍ」，但後半部的屋脊較矮。前後半部屋頂的雨水有一半往房屋中間較低部位流，這部分的雨水經過鐵片收集並聚在一起後，向各戶人家的泄雨管及水溝裡流。如果家裡漏水，主要問題通常就是發生在中間接水的鐵片部分。    
   
五年級暑假的某一天，阿森、阿茂及阿林，一早都到田裡幫忙家裡收割，我一個人覺得特別無聊，在閒逛了街邊的武藝攤子之後，中午就把昨天做好的風箏拿出來在後面那條小街上放。那天風足夠大，我左手拿著風箏線的線圈，右手提著風箏及前端大約五呎長的風箏線，把右手舉得高高的，並且迎著風吹來的方向大步跑，風箏就在我快跑的速度及風速的雙重助力下，緩緩飛了起來，隨著我釋放風箏線的長度，風箏也愈飛愈高。當風箏飛很高時，我有種無法形容的成就感。兒子，我想你在小學運動場放風箏時，應該也有相同的感受吧！這段忘我的境界，讓孩提時期盡是充滿著對天空，及大自然的無限憧憬。    
   
我仰望著風箏飛到有四層樓高的高度，夏日徐徐輕風，讓我享受著孩提時期的夢。這次的風箏夢，只繼續了大約三十分鐘。風向本來是由東南吹向西北，這條小街也是由東南延伸到西北。風箏及風箏線本來就在小街道上的天空，也不怕風箏線去碰屋頂及屋瓦。沒想到，三十分鐘之後，風向由來自「東南」轉為「南方」，風箏也跟著移到北方，風箏線剛好飛到離屋頂上方一呎的地方。這是放風箏的一大致命傷，因為只要風速變小或有其他因素，線就會被屋瓦卡住。當風由南方向北方吹，眼看著風箏線離屋頂那麼近，我頓時緊張萬分，剎那間，風速轉大，使得風箏開始向右傾斜，憑著放風箏經驗與技巧，我把線放鬆免得風箏向右旋轉。可是風速持續加大，風箏也向右翻轉了一圈。珍惜風箏線及做風箏的金錢及勞力，對鄉下孩子來說，這些代價是昂貴的，所以我開始把線收短。可是把線縮短的結果，卻使得風箏不停地向右連續翻轉，最終栽到屋頂上。就這樣，我的風箏線有一半被屋瓦卡住，風箏就狼狽地落在前半院的屋瓦上，有氣無力地上下掙紮。    
   
對鄉下孩子的我來說，這是多麼捨不得的事情。我掉了一半的風箏線，及花一天做出來的風箏，這將消耗我至少兩星期的零用錢，我心裡真是難過。這時候，阿娘在家後門開始她又長又委婉的呼叫聲：「阿→雄→仔→，吃→飯→喔」，我也用又長又溫暖的回聲回我阿娘「我→不→餓」因為我哪有心情吃中飯，我可是損失慘重。    
   
那十二間連在一起的店面兼住家，有一戶人家把後半部屋瓦拿掉，改建成一層樓的鋼筋水泥平面屋頂，方便用來曬衣服及乾糧。為了收回更多的風箏線，我就跑到那戶人家的一樓平臺屋頂察看。我想，如果我沿著各家的後半部矮屋脊的磚牆，只要爬過兩戶人家，我就可以收回至少另外四分之一的風箏線。不過，我從小就有懼高癥，每當我看到屋頂修理工人在屋脊上的磚牆上走動時，我的手心就會直冒冷汗，腳底也為那工人發酸變癢。但是為了收回部分的風箏線，我鼓起做夢也夢不到的勇氣爬到屋脊的磚牆上。右手邊的屋頂，向下傾斜約三十度，如果一不小心，很可能整個人就會立即滾下去，而且屋頂距離地面的高度，更教我全身發抖。但是我那天不知道哪來的勇氣，我一邊發抖，一邊跪著爬，大約過了一個世紀的時間，我終於爬到風箏線的地點，全身顫抖地把風箏線用力拉，終於收回一部分的線。
   
在屋脊上向前爬還好，但是這時候的懼高癥卻讓我不敢轉身，只好慢慢倒退著爬，當然發抖的四肢，讓我掙紮了似乎有兩個世紀之久的時間，才回到平臺屋頂，幸好毫髮無傷。真不知道那天哪來的勇氣，我竟然可以在屋頂向前爬又倒爬。四肢雖然發抖得毫無力氣，可是我的風箏還卡在前半部的屋頂上，而且剛好就在阿美隔壁人家的屋頂上。但是問題來了，從這戶人家的屋頂平臺，到前半部的屋脊是沒有矮磚牆可爬。不過為了收回那只寶貝風箏，我壯下了好大的膽子，由屋頂較低的部位在屋瓦上爬行。每爬一步，就會有屋瓦被我壓破的聲音，甚至爬到一半時，屋瓦被擠破的聲音特別大。    
   
就在我擔心房子主人發現我在屋頂而憂慮的時候，一個男人的叫喊聲從屋內傳到屋外，有人出來了！冤家路窄，真是怕什麼來什麼。我仔細一看，心猛地一沈，我怎麼到了「他家」的屋頂上，剛才只想著去拿我的風箏，都忘了阿美家的隔壁就是「他家」。因為這個男人是村裡兇惡出名的，所有小孩子都怕他。那天我只聽到他的喊叫聲，就嚇得全身動彈不得了，腦子一片空白，想哭卻哭不出來，更不用說去聽他究竟在說些什麼。恍惚中，我看到阿美從屋裡出來了。我聽到底下屋裡阿美的阿爸說：「阿美，到平臺屋頂上看看是怎麼回事？」阿美上了平臺，看到屋頂上發抖的我和另一旁的風箏。她趕緊細聲勸我從屋頂下來，並勸我放棄風箏。    
   
後來，我又花了大約三個世紀的時間，在兇惡男人的吆喝聲中倒爬了下來，等到我戰戰兢兢回過神的時候，阿美把那兇惡男人牽回家，並且站在小街的對面看著我。就這樣，我逃過了一場挨揍的災難。    
   
丟了風箏，我悵然地走進香蕉園，並往河堤方向走去，阿美也隨即跟來。由於很久沒下雨，河床相當乾燥，所以我們可以在溪床裡輕易地跳過幾處水灣。阿美大概要舒解我丟風箏的悵惘，她那天竟然讓我牽著她的手，讓我扶她跳過一灣又一灣的水。我們終於找到一大塊乾淨平坦的大石頭坐下，溪水流過石頭的兩邊，潺潺的流水聲，伴著鳥聲，蟲聲，徐徐輕風輕拂著灌木枝葉，我們躺在石頭上仰望藍天白雲。那個時代的藍天是藍得發紫的顏色。那天的朵朵白雲，特別純白。我們雖然年紀小，可是我們卻學著大人們談天說地。我們談著長大後的日子，阿美說：「長大後我們會有生活、會有痛苦也會有歡樂。」我說：「是的，我們長大後會有工作，生活中會有歡樂及痛苦，我們只有想辦法在痛苦歡樂中，尋求自己的生活。」    
   
阿美跟我數著在白雲下翺翔的老鷹，共有六隻。只見牠們展翅俯瞰著大地及河床，多麼逍遙自在。正當我們羨慕這些老鷹時，一隻滿大的蜈蚣風箏冉冉上升。這只蜈蚣風箏共有二十節，足夠大的風速把大蜈蚣吹上了天空，與白雲，藍天及老鷹鬥豔。原來，醫生阿伯花了一個星期的時間製作了一只大蜈蚣。它的尾巴在風吹震動之下，還會產生節奏。在這美麗的大環境下，阿美讓我把手扶在她肚臍一帶的腹部，並讓我細數著她烏黑長秀髮，失去風箏的煩惱，也頓時消失得無影無蹤。不冷不熱的風，吹得我進入了夢鄉。我那時的小心靈也有些夢想，夢想著，也渴望著與我夢中衷心相愛的女孩，在這林邊溪河床裡談情說愛。    
   
朦朧中，我的阿娘牽著我的手，拿了一綑風箏線。她把我綁在風箏線上，讓我隨著風像風箏一樣地飛翔。我的阿娘緊緊攥著風箏線，讓我緩緩飛上天空，讓我在空中驕傲地俯看大地，看那潺潺的溪水，看那大地孕育著萬物，看那峽谷奇石，聽那溪水及蟲聲的自然樂章。阿娘說：「雄仔，我要你像風箏一樣飛得很高很遠，讓你看看很遠很遠的世界，可是阿娘的心卻像風箏線一樣，要與你永遠地聯繫在一起。」爹娘請您們抓緊風箏線，不管孩子到天涯海角，孩子也要抓緊和依賴那條代表爹娘的心的風箏線，距離愈遠感受愈深。突然，一陣強風吹來，連接我和阿娘的風箏線斷了。    
   
我在睡夢中驚醒，發現我躺在德克薩斯州中部山區風景極美的佩德娜爾斯河瀑布河床上的一塊大石頭上，你和你妹妹各拿一只彩色的菱形風箏，赤著腳站在水中正在搖醒我，「爸爸，水已經漲起來，我們要趕快離開河床，否則會回不去了」。    
   
 這條河流及有泉水的河床，位於德州中部的山區，擁有自然美的河兩岸，澆灌過無數的美麗農場。河水泉水相互競逐地洗淨腳下的大石及小碎石。這不就是夢境嗎？生活是夢境與現實的混合體，因為夢境可以讓我們在現實生活中的失落，得到些許慰藉。   
   
 時空的交錯、對阿娘的懷念、對家鄉的牽掛、對兒時回憶的不再重來，互相交叉且不停地在生活中、在夢中出現。這條佩德娜爾斯河瀑布河床的景色，竟與兒時林邊溪河床相互競趣，不過，醒來後隨之而來的是一股無奈的悵惘。我自言自語道：「阿娘，請抓緊風箏線，不管我走到哪裡，我都要抓緊那條代表爹娘的心的風箏線。」

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