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The Robot World Cup Initiative - http://www.robocup.org/
Soccer playing computers. |
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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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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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MacHack - http://www.machack.com/
Annual Macintosh programming contest and convention. |
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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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ICFP Programming Contest - http://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~plclub/cgi-bin/contest/
Annual programming contest held in conjunction with International Conference on Functional Programming. Accepts submissions written using any programming language. |
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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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OpenChallenge - http://www.openchallenge.org/
3-monthly challenge. Every three months the innovations are published under GNU GPL/FDL licenses. |
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Programming Contest Problems Archive - http://www.inf.bme.hu/contests/tasks/
If you are preparing for a programming contest, this page might be useful. Includes past problems of national, regional and international 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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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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Bitwise - http://www.bitwise.iitkgp.ernet.in/
An annual online programming contest organized by the Computer Science and Engineering Department Society of IIT Kharagpur. Information on the contest, sponsors and resources. |
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Loco Mummy (Low Cost Multimodal Interface Software Contest) - http://www.locomummy.net/
Contest calls for new communication helper software between humans and PCs or PocketPCs. Free. Open to all. Various prizes. |
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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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DSAP - http://vnco.lubox.net/
Data Structures + Algorithms = Programs. Algorithm materials and programming problems from informatics contests. |
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JRobots - http://jrobots.sourceforge.net/
Java-based Robots Programming challenge. |
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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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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. |
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RoboCom - http://www.cyty.com/robocom/
An online game for programmers. Participants determine how robots will move, communicate with others or even build more robots. |