About ICFPC have already been articles on Habré, for example about
ICFPC 2009 . Well, I’ll just supplement it with the following years, and in between times I’ll say that ICFPC 2013 is near (this Friday). This year's sponsor is Microsoft, and the site is
research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/icfpcontest2013 .
In general, usually all ICFPCs created the icfpcontest.org page, but this is Microsoft, they have everything in a special way. Although who knows, maybe tomorrow will be replaced.
2009 - we operate satellites, we enter the necessary orbits, we are joined with each other.
2010 - everything was described as the production of machines and fuel for them, but ultimately it all came down to programming circuits on the ternary logic.
2011 - we create a bot for playing Lambda the Gathering (referring to Magic the Gathering). This is a strategic game (card) with elements of functional programming.
2012 - create a bot to play Boulder Dash. We collect diamonds (called lambdas) and dodge stones.
2013 - ??? Microsoft said that it would be necessary to generate other programs from the program, but what exactly needs to be done is only found out the day after tomorrow.
Who will participate - I wish you good luck. Who is not - get sick and watch the results.