Outline
	ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM/ICPC) is a grobal-scale prgramming contest for university/college students. This contest is hosted by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) which is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology. ACM has 75,000 or more members, and they active in many fields related to computing. The ACM/ICPC provides college students with opportunities to interact with students from other universities and to sharpen and demonstrate their problem-solving, programming, and teamwork skills. In the last year (the 28th contest), 3150 teams competed in their regional contests (including 10 Asian sites), and 73 teams participated in the world final contest held in Prague, Czech republic. The first Asian regional contest held in Japan was the 1998 Tokyo contest (at Waseda University). After 1998, an Asian regional contest has been held in Japan every year : Kyoto (in 1999), Tsukuba (in 2000), Hakodate (in 2001), Kanawaza (in 2002), and Aizu (in 2003). This year's contest will held in Matsuyama-city, Ehime prefecture (at Ehime University) on Nov. 21.