Dyalog announces 2010 programming competition

Following on from last years successful contest, the 2010 edition of the Dyalog Programming Contest was launched last week.

The contest has been established with the purpose of encouraging students, and others, to investigate APL.

Last year, we estimate that roughly 300 students downloaded an educational copy of Dyalog APL as a result of hearing about the contest. A young man named Ronald Chan won USD 2,000 plus an all-expenses paid trip from New Zealand to Princeton, New Jersey for our annual conference. 35 other participants won cash prizes, including people who did not submit programs but introduced the people who did.

You can read about the results of last year's contest at:

http://www.dyalog.com/news.htm#contest

... and watch a few minutes of the prize ceremony at:

http://video.dyalog.com/Dyalog09/2009ProgrammingContestPrizeCeremony.html

This year, the contest is sponsored by Fiserv (US), Simcorp (Denmark), APL Italiana (Italy) and Dyalog Ltd. as well as several individuals and companies who have chosen to remain anonymous. There are 26 cash prizes to be won by students with an equivalent number of introduction awards - totalling US$ 15,000 (up from 11,000 last year).

The First Prize winner can look forward to $2,500 plus round trip travel from anywhere in the world to the APL 2010 Conference in Berlin Germany on September 13-16.

As before, the people or organisations that introduce the winning students to the contest will receive the same dollar prizes - and they need not be students to make the introduction.

The deadline for submission is Noon UTC, July 18th, 2010.

For more information on the programming contest, rules and submission of entries, see http://www.dyalog.com/contest_2010, and/or join the Facebook group "Dyalog Programming Contest".

We hope that you will support the contest this year, either by participating (if you should be lucky enough to qualify) or by passing this information on to a student who might be interested!

Morten Kromberg,
CTO, Dyalog Ltd.