The purpose of the conference is to promote academic exchange and integration among students, teaching assistants, and professors in a less formal setting than the classroom. Each year, the JEFI provides a forum where students from various programs within the faculty present papers and projects that are of general interest. The spirit of the JAFI is to provide a meeting place for the presentation of work and academic exchange among researchers and professionals working on topics related to computer science, electronics, and telecommunications. For its part, the JIFI seeks to provide a space to gather, share activities, and participate in challenges.
The Programming Contest aims to solve problems, foster teamwork, and showcase programming skills. Thirteen teams participated, each consisting of three students. The students had to solve programming problems in Java or C++, following the rules of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. The winning teams were:
1st prize: Rodrigo Machado, Denis Rodríguez, and Mauro de Carvalho.
2nd prize: Fabián Kozynski, Ari Rostkier, and Rogelio Sandler.
3rd prize: Martín Zubeldía, Sofía Arrambide, and Ricardo Szyfer.
The teams that won 1st and 2nd place will represent ORT University in the South American Final of the "ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest," organized by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), to be held in Buenos Aires in November. This is the oldest programming contest in the world, with students from over 1,400 universities in 75 countries participating. The companies Quanam, Microsoft, and TATA Consultancy Services will collaborate to support the teams’ participation in Argentina.
The organizing committee and the jury were composed of: Dr. Inés Kereki, M.Sc. Carlos Luna, and M.Sc. Helena Garbarino. Support was provided by Laboratory Coordinator Marta Castro, B.S., and Marcelo Rubino, Eng.
As part of the conference, the Faculty of Engineering and Vincular, the University-Industry Relations Office at ORT University, invited leading recruiters, associations, and organizations linked to the ICT sector to participate in these sessions. For the past three years, this event has served as a platform for collaboration between the academic sector and industry, offering students and graduates the opportunity to connect with companies, present their profiles, and access job opportunities. This contributes to strengthening the university-industry partnership, which has been established through various initiatives aimed at fostering greater innovation and opportunities.
The organizations supporting the conference participated in two ways: through technical presentations that complemented the academic schedule and through institutional booths set up in the university’s central hall, where the Career Fair took place.
Participating organizations included: Advice, Arcanus, ARTech, the Association of Young Entrepreneurs, the Association of Engineers of Uruguay, the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology, Dovat, Carriquiry y Asociados, the Military School of Aeronautics, IEEE, Infocorp, Isbel, Manpower, McGraw Hill, Microsoft, Pearson, Quanam, TATA Consultancy Services, andUy Lug.
In addition, one of the faculty’s laboratories was set up for the “Game Party.” The activity, which consisted of online games, was led by Professor Ismael Garrido and drew a large crowd.
The general coordination of the 2008 Conference of the Faculty of Engineering was led by MsC. Helena Garbarino.
Article ( PDF) published in the journal Uruguay Ciencia. January 2009.