http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/1775/all xx http://www.itworld.com/development/69018/china-dominates-nsa-backed-coding-contest Programmers from China and Russia have dominated the TopCoder Open, an annual international competition on everything from writing algorithms to designing components. http://www.itworld.com/development/69018/china-dominates-nsa-backed-coding-contest#comments Development Government News NSA TopCoder TopCoder Open Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:36:35 -0400 ITworld staff 69018 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/career/65739/finding-freelance-jobs-6-sites-talented-techies These days just about everyone is feeling the financial pinch. If you're lucky enough to have a day job, chances are you've at least had thoughts of moonlighting. Here we look at 6 sites that promise to help you put a little cash in your pocket. http://www.itworld.com/career/65739/finding-freelance-jobs-6-sites-talented-techies#comments Career Development Feature CrossLoop Elance freelance Guru.com IT jobs job search LivePerson RentACoder TopCoder Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:43:36 -0400 abennett 65739 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/56179/topcoder-eyeing-smb-market TopCoder, a company known for its competition-based software development services, is turning its sights on the SMB market with a new portal called TopCoder Direct that will come out of beta at the end of October. http://www.itworld.com/development/56179/topcoder-eyeing-smb-market#comments Development Small business News TopCoder Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:48:03 -0400 ITworld staff 56179 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/55218/cool-programmer-challenge-football-algorithm-50000 Imagine that you have detailed data from every college football game from the last four years, and you want to predict which teams will win through the rest of this season. How would you write a program to get the most accurate answer? http://www.itworld.com/development/55218/cool-programmer-challenge-football-algorithm-50000#comments Development News programming TopCoder Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:15:58 -0400 ITworld staff 55218 at http://www.itworld.com