ACM ACM International College Programming Contest logo ACM acm International College Programming Contest (full name: ACM-ICPC or ICPC) is an annual competition sponsored by the American Computer Association (ACM), which aims to show college students' innovative ability, team spirit and the ability to write programs, analyze and solve problems under pressure. After nearly 30 years of development, ACM acm International College Programming Competition has developed into the most influential college computer competition. The event is currently sponsored by IBM.
Basic profile
ACM/ICPC (ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest) is an annual ACM competition organized by ACM (Computing Machinery Association of American Computer Association), which started at 1970. It is the most influential event in the global computer programming ability competition for college students, and the oldest, largest and most prestigious programming competition in the world. The competition advocates innovation and teamwork, encourages students to give full play to their creativity when building brand-new software programs, and helps students test their working ability under strong pressure. The history of ACM acm International College Programming Competition (ICPC) can be traced back to 1970, when Texas A & amp； M University held its first competition, sponsored by Alpha Branch of UPE Computer Science Honorary Association. As a brand-new way to discover and cultivate top students in this emerging field of computer science, the competition has quickly received positive responses from many universities in the United States and Canada.
1977, the first ICPC finals was held during the ACM computer science conference, which evolved into a multi-level competition. Since then, ACM has been the organizer of the contest, and in 1989, the headquarters of the contest was located in Baylor University, Texas, USA. Since then, the competition has gradually developed into a global university network, holding regional preliminaries and selecting teams to participate in the ACM-ICPC global finals.
1997, IBM became a sponsor of the contest. The participation of IBM has expanded the scale of competition by seven times. The number of participants has greatly increased, involving tens of thousands of top students and teachers in the field of computing from 1, 82 1 universities in 83 countries on six continents.