Last fall, teams of college students around the globe were busy competing in regional coding contests with the ultimate goal of being named the best student programming team in the world. Organized by ...

UT Programming Contests (UTPC) teams delivered a standout performance at the International Collegiate Programming Contest ...

Przemysław “Psyho” Dębiak, a 42-year-old programmer from Gdynia, Poland, made history by defeating OpenAI’s custom AI model at the AtCoder World Tour Finals (AWTF) 2025 "Humans vs AI" contest in Tokyo ...

There are tons of jobs out there needing people who can write code, like software developers and data scientists. But ...

Mainframes are still widely in use at banks, insurance companies, and other big businesses that handle lots of credit card transactions. You might think of the mainframe computer as long-gone relic of ...

Fancy a job at the messaging service Telegram? You might want to look out for the next coding competition the company organizes to recruit engineers. Pavel Durov, the cofounder and CEO of Telegram, ...

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says the key to building a world-class engineering team isn't traditional interviews, it's winning a coding contest. In Tuesday’s interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, Durov ...

Texas Instruments (TI) and NASA have announced a virtual coding contest to give students (ages 13–19), who are learning remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic, a chance to win prizes for designing a ...

Pavel Durov is the cofounder and CEO of Telegram, a messaging service. Durov said he relies on coding contests instead of interviews to screen for potential hires. "It's in line with my overall ...