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The Robot World Cup Initiative - http://www.robocup.org/
Soccer playing computers. |
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Valladolid Programming Competition - http://acm.uva.es/problemset/
An online contest with information about writing competitions, questions, and an online judge. |
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Loebner Prize - http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html
A unique annual contest in which a winner is selected from participants who comes to the closest to demonstrating that machines can think like humans, as per the Turing Test. |
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BUTE Budapest International 24-hour Programming Contest - http://www.challenge24.org/
Annual 24-hour contest hosted by Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The contest is open to a limited number of international teams of 3 people via an internet qualifying round. |
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TopCoder - http://www.topcoder.com/
Online computer programming competitions in the Java, C++, and C# languages. Competitions take place twice a week, and members can win from $25-$300. Major tournaments have a prize purse of $250,000. |
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Project Euler - http://projecteuler.net/
A series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. |
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Sphere Online Judge - http://www.spoj.pl
Problemset archive, online judge and contest hosting service accepting solutions in C, C++, Pascal, Java and other languages. |
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The International Obfuscated C Code Contest - http://www.ioccc.org/
A contest to write the most obscure/obfuscated C program. |
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Teamwork in Programming Contests - http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-2/progcon.html
Tips and observations from a team of programmers who have regularly won in the ACM programming contests. Published in ACM Crossroads, the student magazine of the ACM. |
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Internet Problem Solving Contest - http://ipsc.ksp.sk/
Online programming contest for teams, open to anyone. |
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Programmer of the Month - http://dinsights.com/POTM/
A periodical problem solving contest for programmers from all over the world. Active forum. |
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Al Zimmermann's Programming Contests - http://www.recmath.org/Contest
A series of programming contests that offer cash prizes. Any programming language may be used. These contests are conducted at irregular intervals, generally once or twice a year. |
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International InfoMATRIX Computer Project Competition - http://www.infomatrix.ro/
Participants have to create a project for any of the categories (Programming, Design and Use of Computer, Desktop Publishing, Computer Art) First of all, each school must select one representant. |
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C++ Robots - http://www.gamerz.net/c++robots/
C++ based robots programming challenge. |
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http://vnco.lubox.net/ - http://vnco.lubox.net/
Data Structures + Algorithms = Programs. Algorithm materials and programming problems from informatics contests. |
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RAD Race - http://www.radrace.org/
The Rapid Application Development Race is a programming competition open to any kind of development tool and/or language. The RAD Race focuses on real life business and administrative programming and not on algorithm development. |
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MiniGame Compo - http://minigamecomp.org.uk/
Contest to write a fully playable game in under 1K or 4K. Open to games for classic 8-bit computers. |
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http://jrobots.sourceforge.net/ - http://jrobots.sourceforge.net/
Java-based Robots Programming challenge. |
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Denison Spring Programming Contest - http://www.denison.edu/academics/departments/mathcs/denison_spring_programming_conte.html
The Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Denison University hosts a programming contest each spring for small colleges. It informs about previous results and current winners. |
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2002 MiniGame Compo - http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl3polof/minigame/
Aim is to write a game in 1024 bytes of code, for an 8-bit home computer such as the Atari 2600, NES, CPC+, or TI99/4A. Includes competition news and details of entries. |