Thursday, February 26 1998

Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday - Teams - Winners

Regional Contest Director's Workshop

Already early in the morning, Bill is explaining this and that while Natasja Paulssen and Marco Huysmans (The 1999 Northeastern European Regional Directors from Hogeschool 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands) are eating their breakfast.

Prof. Feipei Lai from National Taiwan University

How to get an IBM Gift

First, you have to fill in that questionnaire (Nicolae Tapus, Southeastern European Region), then...

...hand the sheets to Tom Glover (Mark Dettinger, Southwestern European Region)...

...and finally, Mary Law from IBM...

...will shake your hands (Here with Alberto Lamadrid, Central American Director) and give you the IBM gift...

...which consists of the ViaVoice speech recognition software and a nice T-shirt.

The Registration Process

Chris Phelps (IBM Intern) and David Burg (IBM Software Developer) are waiting for the participants.

First Station: Let's put you in the picture:

John Putriment is making those fancy badges with the photo of each contestant on it...

...like this one!

Second Station: Grab the Envelopes:

Here's the Team from University of Central Florida doing right that.

Third Station: Show up at the IBM Recruiters

Gretchen Satcher, Jerry Burns and Joyce Wade are keen on meeting bright minds.

Fourth Station: Sign up for the TechTrek

And you're done!

Buffet Lunch and IBM TechTrek

Hey, I am not the only one who takes pictures. This guy has a quite impressive camera -- but mine is faster :-)

With that gorgeous buffet lunch, absolutely nobody will starve.

Enjoying Lunch

Moscow State University

Shanghai University

National Taiwan University

...while the team from Charles University Prague (Czech Republic) is trying to find the answers to those hard astronomical questions...

...as is the team from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

Prof. Katsahiko Kakehi (Waseda University, Tokyo) and J W Saputro (Indonesia)

IBM TechTrek

Curtis Uehlein, Director of IBM Multimedia Solutions, is delivering the first speech.After that, people split up into three different sessions:

Sandy Thomas (ad marketing, IBM software group) is talking about e-business and Java technology;

Joe Hoane, Researcher of the IBM Deep Blue team;

finally Phil McLean, Developer of the IBM VisualAge for C++ IDE.

Dinner and Fun at Miss Pitty Pat's Porch

What a lovely welcome at Miss Pitty Pat's Porch!

The team from the University of Warsaw, Poland

Don't be so shy, she does not bite:-)

Isn't she lovely? (got the joke?!)

He's almost recruited (I am just wondering why there are so many women in recruiting departments of computer-related companies...)

Participants from the St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics, Russia, enjoying their dinner

Mary Law and Brenda Chow from IBM -- who did once more a really great job!