GLASTONBURY, Conn., June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the leader in online programming competition, today announced that Intel Corporation has become a sponsor of the 2011 TopCoder Open, the world's foremost competitive computer programming and creative design tournament. Intel has been a sponsor of previous TopCoder Opens including 2003/2004 and hosted the Intel Software Network Multi-Threading Competition powered by TopCoder. The 2011 TopCoder Open is a world-wide programming and designing tournament covering six competition tracks: Algorithm, Design, Development, Marathon, Mod Dash, and Studio Design with $150,000 in cash prizes. For details on the 2011 TopCoder Open, visit http://community.topcoder.com/tco11/
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"The TopCoder Open allows some of our very best community members to shine and receive the recognition and rewards they deserve," said Rob Hughes, president and COO of TopCoder, Inc. "We are very pleased to have Intel back onboard with their valuable support as a TopCoder Open sponsor."
TopCoder offers a comprehensive array of outcome-based software competitions 24 x 7 in which real world business solutions are built on time and on budget through an 'extreme outcomes'-based model. For creative work, TopCoder Studio provides a competitive arena for creative skills such as graphic arts and digital design.
About TopCoder, Inc.
TopCoder is the world's largest competitive software development community with nearly 300,000 developers representing over 200 countries. TopCoder hosts the largest and most comprehensive developer ratings and performance metrics available. The TopCoder community builds software for a wide-ranging client base through a competitive, rigorous, standards based methodology. This methodology results in a highly consistent set of software components allowing a software-as-parts approach to application development. TopCoder makes this large library of software components built through competition available to all of our clients. Utilizing a world-wide member base and this library, TopCoder seeks to lower the cost of software development while increasing both the speed at which applications can be developed and the quality of the ultimate application. For more information about sponsoring TopCoder events and utilizing TopCoder's software services and platforms, visit www.topcoder.com.
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