jPlease consider putting together a team/encourage your students, friends, colleagues to put together a team for the ICFP 2012 programming contest. Entries can be made in ANY LANGUAGE (including one of your own invention) as long as the submitted program can be run by the judges on a standard Linux environment with no network connection (sorry, Vixo!). The competition will run from 1200 UTC on July 13th for 72 hours. There will also be a lightning (24 hour) division for those who can't dedicate a full 72 hours to the contest. This is an open contest. Anybody may participate except for the contest organisers and members of the same group as the the contest chairs. http://icfpcontest2012.wordpress.com/ Did we mention that the contest is sponsored by Facebook and there will be cash prizes (and no entry fee)! What do you have to lose? Book your holiday time and pizza deliveries now! Best Wishes, Kevin -------- Kevin Hammond, Professor of Computer Science, University of St Andrews T: +44-1334 463241 F: +44-1334-463278 W: http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~kh In accordance with University policy on electronic mail, this email reflects the opinions of the individual concerned, may contain confidential or copyright information that should not be copied or distributed without permission, may be of a private or personal nature unless explicitly indicated otherwise, and should not under any circumstances be taken as an official statement of University policy or procedure (see http://www.st-and.ac.uk). The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No SC013532