The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) 2025 has concluded, bringing surprises that challenge traditional views of computer science education.

The contest was a puzzle-solving marathon in which competitors had 10 hours to find the most efficient way to solve a complex coding problem.

The contest, held by Japanese competitive programming platform AtCoder, is widely regarded as one of the toughest and most exclusive events in the field. Reserved for just 12 of the world's top ...

Software developers entering the International Obfuscated C Code Contest must write programs that look baffling, but perform unusual, unexpected or catastrophic tasks ...

The robotics contest was very different from and “definitely harder” than the drone coding contest, Austin said, because the latter was primarily focused on writing the correct code to ...