ACM-ICPC is the largest computer programming contest in the world. The ACM-ICPC is an activity of the ACM that provides college students with an opportunity to demonstrate and sharpen their problem-solving and computing skills.
The contest is considered to be the "Olympics Of Computer Programming". The ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contests invite Asian students to meet, establish friendship and promote fair competition in programming.
It is a two tier contest .The world is divided into six regions and Asia is a region. In Asia their are Eighteen host sites and the Gwalior is one of them. Each site selects one team as winner of the site and will be eligible to participate in the world finals which will be held in 2015.
The winning team of each site is eligible to participate to the world finals. Winning Team may also get travel support from IBM to participate in the world finals.
The Gwalior Site contest is jointly organized by ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior, India and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. This is the Sixteenth year that IIT Kanpur will be organizing the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest(Asia Region).