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Programmers from China and Russia have dominated the TopCoder Open, an annual international competition on everything from writing algorithms to designing components.

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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.

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Cool programmer challenge: Football algorithm = $50,000

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?

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