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{{Short description|Worldwide competitive programming contest for university students}}

[[File:ICPC Foundation logo.svg|thumb|Logo of the ICPC Foundation]]

The '''International Collegiate Programming Contest''' ('''ICPC''') is an annual multi-tiered [[competitive programming]] competition among the [[university|universities]] of the world.<ref name="CACM">{{cite web|url = https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/165692-the-worlds-smartest-programmers-compete-acm-icpc/fulltext | title = The World's Smartest Programmers Compete: ACM ICPC | publisher = Communications of the ACM | first = Chas| last = Kurtz| date = July 2, 2013}}</ref> Directed by ICPC Executive ''[[Director of National Intelligence|<span lang="id">Director</span>]]'' and Baylor Professor William B. Poucher, the ICPC operates autonomous regional contests covering six continents culminating in a global World Finals every year. In 2018, ICPC participation included 52,709 students from 3,233 universities in 110 countries.

The ICPC operates under the auspices of the ICPC Foundation and operates under agreements with host universities and non-profits, all in accordance with the ICPC Policies and Procedures.<ref name="icpcpp">{{Cite web |url=https://icpc.global/compete/ICPC-Policies-and-Procedures.pdf |title=ICPC Policies and Procedures |access-date=2018-08-01 |archive-date=2017-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829081054/https://icpc.baylor.edu/compete/ICPC-Policies-and-Procedures.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> From 1977 until 2017 ICPC was held under the auspices of [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] and was referred to as ACM-ICPC.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://icpc.global/community/history/Factsheet-2017.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220307093311/https://icpc.global/community/history/Factsheet-2017.pdf|archive-date=7 March 2022|title=ICPC Factsheet 2017}}</ref>

==History==

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From 1997 to 2017, [[IBM|International Business Machines Corporation]] (IBM) was the sponsor of ICPC. During that time contest participation has grown by more than 2000%. In 1997, 840 teams from 560 universities participated. In 2017, 46,381 students from 2,948 universities in 103 countries on six continents participated in regional competitions. Organized as a highly localized extra-curricular university mind sport and operating as a globally-coordinated unincorporated association operating under agreements with host universities and non-profits, the ICPC is open to qualified teams from every university in the world.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}

UPE has provided continuous support since 1970 and honored World Finalists since the first Finals in 1976. The ICPC is indebted to ACM member contributions and ACM assistance from 1976 to 2018. Baylor University served since 1985, hosting ICPC Headquarters from 1989 until 2022. The ICPC operates under the auspices of the ICPC Foundation which provides the ICPC Global Headquarters to service a globally-coordinated community whose events operate under agreements with host universities and non-profits to insure that participation in ICPC is open to qualified teams from every university in the world. See ICPC Policies and Procedures.<ref name="icpcpp">{{Cite web |title=ICPC Policies and Procedures |url=https://icpc.global/compete/ICPC-Policies-and-Procedures.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829081054/https://icpc.baylor.edu/compete/ICPC-Policies-and-Procedures.pdf |archive-date=2017-08-29 |access-date=2018-08-01}}</ref>

The ICPC World Finals (The Annual World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest) is the final round of competition. Over its history it has become a 4-day event held in the finest venues worldwide with 140 teams competing in the 2018 World Finals. Recent World Champion teams have been recognized by their country's head of state. In recent years, media impressions have hovered at the one billion mark.{{cn|date=November 2020}}