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The International Obfuscated C Code Contest 
http://www.ioccc.org/

A contest to write the most obscure/obfuscated C program.

The Robot World Cup Initiative 
http://www.robocup.org/

Soccer playing computers.

Swiss Olympiad in Informatics 
http://www.soinf.ch/

The SOI is a national programming contest for people up to 20 years in age.

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.

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.

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.

Internet Problem Solving Contest 
http://ipsc.ksp.sk/

Online programming contest for teams, open to anyone.

International Contest for ICCS 
http://iccs.8m.com/

Programming contest disseminated by the Nalini Foundation in five categories: computation, simulation, graphic patterns, words, mind benders.

Internet Programming Contest 
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~ola/ipc.html

Duke University sponsors a programming contest that takes place in real-time over the internet.

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.

MacHack 
http://www.machack.com/

Annual Macintosh programming contest and convention.

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.

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.

Valladolid Programming Competition 
http://acm.uva.es/problemset/

An online contest with information about writing competitions, questions, and an online judge.

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.

OpenChallenge 
http://www.openchallenge.org/

3-monthly challenge. Every three months the innovations are published under GNU GPL/FDL licenses.

RoShamBo Programming Competition 
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsbpc.html

A Rock-Paper-Scissors programming competition.

Upstate Collegiate Programming Contest 
http://www.cs.geneseo.edu/projects/ucpc/ucpc.html

Programming contest for students of Upstate New York colleges and universities.

The 1KB 6502 Programming Contest 
http://oric.ifrance.com/oric/microtan/6502contest.html

Contest programming on the 6502 microprocessor. Valid programs must run on the 1 KB ram Microtan65.

URCSC Computer Programming Contest 
http://www.mathcs.richmond.edu/~urcsc/contest/

Programming contest sponsored by the University of Richmond, Computer Science Club.

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.

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.

DSAP 
http://vnco.lubox.net/

Data Structures + Algorithms = Programs. Algorithm materials and programming problems from informatics contests.

iDevGames : uDevGame Contest 
http://www.idevgames.com/

An annual event that promotes game development on the Macintosh computer.

Programmer of the Month 
http://dinsights.com/POTM/

A periodical problem solving contest for programmers from all over the world. Active forum.

JRobots 
http://jrobots.sourceforge.net/

Java-based Robots Programming challenge.

OpenECG Programming Contest 
http://www.openecg.net/

A programming contest for Electrocardiography record handling applications and tools, using the SCP-ECG Standard.

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.

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.

Project Euler 
http://projecteuler.net/

A series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve.

C++ Robots 
http://www.gamerz.net/c++robots/

C++ based robots programming challenge.

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.

Denison Programming Contest 
http://personal.denison.edu/~feil/spring_contest/dspc.html

The Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Denison University hosts a programming contest each spring for small colleges.

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.

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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