12th Internet Problem Solving Contest, This Sunday

misof writes "Roughly a thousand teams from all around the globe have already registered for IPSC 2010, which takes place on Sunday, June 6. $3,000 in prize money (courtesy of Facebook, Inc.) is waiting for the best few of them. Participation is free and the contest is open to everybody. IPSC is what you could call a programming contest with a twist. Over the years, the problems always push the boundary and go beyond the usual stuff you see in a programming contest. For example, in past few years the contestants have had to understand how arithmetic in computers differs from that in mathematics, produce a sequence of cache requests that generates many page faults, solve a logic puzzle given as a Flash game, and recognize images to evaluate a rock-paper-scissors game."

Comments

Re:International Practical Shooting Confederation

[Garble Snarky]

Your IPSC could have chosen their name better, seeing that it overlaps with...
Intel Personal Supercomputer
International Private Society Club
Interagency Perchlorate Steering Committee
Interim Political and Security Committee
...

Would you kindly recommend an unused acronym?

Re:International Practical Shooting Confederation

[Arancaytar]

They could have picked their schedule better, too. June 6 is the second round of Google's 2010 Code Jam contest...

Problem #1

[PPH]

Getting up on Sunday in time for the contest after some hard partying Saturday night.