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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>

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== Renowned participants ==

Some former ICPC finalists have made remarkable achievements in the software industry and research. They include [[Adam D'Angelo]], the former CTO of [[Facebook]] and founder of [[Quora]]; [[Nikolai Durov]], the co-founder of [[Telegram Messenger]]; [[Matei Zaharia]], the creator of [[Apache Spark]]; [[Tony Hsieh]], the CEO of [[Zappos]] and a venture capitalist; [[Amit Sahai]], renowned professor specializing in security and cryptography; [[Craig Silverstein]], the first employee of [[Google]]; and [[Jakub Pachocki]], chief scientist of [[OpenAI]]. {{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

== See also ==