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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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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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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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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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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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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. |