Registration opens August 14th; finals to be held in
Google's New York City Engineering Office on October 27th, 2006
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., and New York, NY, - August 14, 2006 - Google
Inc., (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that registration is now open for
Google Code Jam 2006. Google's annual online coding competition
presents participants with a series of challenges that they must use
their programming skills and creativity to solve. Programmers ready to
match their skills against the world's best can register at
http://www.google.com/codejam2006. The top 100 contestants win an all
expenses paid trip to New York City to compete in the finals at
Google's New York Engineering Office.
"The Google Code Jam is an incredible opportunity for the most talented
and fastest computer scientists in the world to come together and
compete on an international stage," said Alan Eustace, senior vice
president, Engineering, Google Inc. "Google is proud to support these
amazing coders as they take on some of the world's most challenging
programming problems, and we're pleased to have the chance to introduce
them to our research and development offices around the world."
This year marks the first year the finals will be held in New York
City. "Google New York is very excited to be hosting Google Code Jam
2006," said Craig Nevill-Manning, director, Engineering New York,
Google Inc. "It's an incredible opportunity to introduce the best of
the programming world to our New York Engineering office in downtown
Manhattan and demonstrate the incredible diversity of experiences that
Google offers engineers all over the world. If you can make it in Code
Jam here, you can make it anywhere!"
In addition to the trip to Google's New York Engineering Office,
finalists will also divide $155,000 in prize money:
Grand Prize: $10,000
2nd - 10th place: $5,000 each
11th - 25th place: $2,500 each
26th - 50th place: $1,000 each
51st - 100th place: $750 each
Registration for Google Code Jam closes September 5, and the qualifying
round begins on the same day.
Last year, more than 14,500 competitors from 32 countries took part in
the Google Code Jam, and Marek Cygan of Poland took home the grand
prize. The Google Code Jam is powered by TopCoder®, the leader in
online programming competition, skills assessment, and competitive
software development. More information about Google Code Jam 2006 can
be found at http://www.google.com/codejam2006.
About Google Inc.
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people
around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by
Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a
top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted
advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable
results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google
is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the
Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.
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