The first news story, "We Have a Winner: Programming Contests Show Impressive Growth," discusses how academic and private-sector programming contexts are expanding in number, size, and scope. The second news story, "Funny Business, Serious Business: O'Reilly OSCON 2006," reviews the 2006 O?Reilly Open Source Conference, which was larger than ever with about 2,700 participants.
Index Terms:
programming contests, TopCoder, Code Jam, International Collegiate Programming Contest, ICPC, IEEE Xtreme 24-Hour Programming Contest, Imagine Cup, Computer Society International Design Competition, CSIDC, open source, OSCON, O?Reilly
Citation:
Greg Goth, Bart Massey, "In the News," IEEE Software, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 99-103, Nov./Dec. 2006, doi:10.1109/MS.2006.167