The winner of the Assignment 1 contest was Justin Malinosky, who found satisfying assignments to the first 13 instances in 19.5 seconds. Congratulations, Justin! Justin won a nice book and a bag of chocolate.

The winner of the Assignment 3 contest was again Justin Malinosky, who found the 100 most common words in a 2 MByte file in 3.449s on the old DECs. Runner ups were Scott Cuttler, with 3.812s, and Kiet Tieu, with 3.890s. Congratulations, all! Justin won a lovely cotton sweatshirt; Kiet Tieu got an interesting puzzle; and Scott won a travel bag and a nice book.

The Assignment 4 contest was cancelled. There weren't many entries. The usa-48 maps was very fast to color (less than 0.1 seconds), but the tN maps ranged from very easy to very hard. So far, no one has reported being able to correctly solve all of the tN-maps.