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If you think you have the programming chops, come one come all:

Google Inc., announced today that registration is now open for Google Code Jam 2006. Google’s annual
online coding competition presents participants with a series of challenges that they must use their programming skills and creativity to solve. Programmers ready to match their skills against the world’s
best can register at http://www.google.com/codejam2006. The top 100 contestants win an all expenses paid trip to New York City to compete in the finals at Google’s New York Engineering Office.

“The Google Code Jam is an incredible opportunity for the most talented and fastest computer scientists in the world to come together and compete on an international stage,” said Alan Eustace, senior vice
president, Engineering, Google Inc. “Google is proud to support these amazing coders as they take on some of the world’s most challenging programming problems, and we’re pleased to have the chance to introduce them to our research and development offices around the world.”

“Google New York is very excited to be hosting Google Code Jam 2006,” said Craig Nevill-Manning, director, Engineering New York, Google Inc. “It’s an incredible opportunity to introduce the best of
the programming world to our New York Engineering office in downtown Manhattan and demonstrate the incredible diversity of experiences that Google offers engineers all over the world. If you can make it in Code
Jam here, you can make it anywhere!”

In addition to the trip to Google’s New York Engineering Office, finalists will also divide $155,000 in prize money.

The money is cool - but the job offer and stock options would be even better.

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