Bitwise is a state-of-the-art online programming contest. The contest is time constrained and posed with some of the toughest programming and algorithmic challenges in a short span of 12 hours.

Bitwise was started in the year 2001 by the 4th year undergraduate students of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. The contest provides programmers across the globe a platform to compete and test their abilities to develop efficient algorithms for engrossing real-life problems within a given time constraint. Over the last five years, the contest has become extremely popular around the world.

In Bitwise 2010, over 4900 teams participated from a total of 1473 organizations, universities and institutes spread over 66 countries.

Registration is free and open to all. Contestants need to solve a set of problems posted on the site using C or C++. The solutions are evaluated, not only on the basis of correctness, but also on their execution time and space complexities (FAQs).

• Grand Prize 40,000 INR !!!
• First Runner-up Prize 25,000 INR
• Second Runner-up Prize 15,000 INR
• USB drives for teams ranking 4-20
• Attractive Prizes for Top 50 Teams
• Top Indian team will be given a prize of 5000 INR.

Bitwise 2011 is scheduled to be organized on 13th February 2011.

Website: www.bitwise.iitkgp.ernet.in

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