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The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) is an annual informatics competition for secondary school students. The first IOI was held in 1989 in Pravetz, Bulgaria.

The contest consists of two days computer programming, solving problems of an algorithmic nature. Students compete on an individual basis, with up to four students competing from each participating country (with around 81 countries in 2004). Students are selected through national computing contests. For example, in Britain, students compete in the BIO for a place in the national team. The Australian team is selected through the Australian Informatics Olympiad.

Structure of the competition[]

On each of the two competition days, the students are typically given three problems which they have to solve in five hours. Each student works on his/her own, with only a computer and no other help allowed, specifically no communication with other contestants, books etc. Usually to solve a task the contestant has to write a computer program (in C (programming language), informatics or Pascal) and submit it before the five hour competition time ends. Later on, the program is graded by being run with secret test data, consisting of multiple (typically 10 or 20) Test cases. The contestant is awarded points for each test case that his program solves correctly, and within the given time and memory limit. In some cases, the contestant's program has to interact with a secret computer library, which allows problems where the input is not fixed, but depends on the program's actions - for example in game problems. Another new type of problems has known inputs which are publicly available already during the five hours of the contest. For these, the contestants have to submit the according output file instead of a program, and it is up to them whether they obtain the output files by writing a program (possibly exploiting special characteristics of the input), or by hand, or by a combination of these means.

The scores from the two competition days and all problems are summed up separately for each contestant. At the awarding ceremony, contestants are awarded medals depending on their relative total score. The top 50% of the contestants (i.e. two per country, on average) are awarded medals, such that the relative number of gold : silver : bronze : no medal is approximately 1:2:3:6 (thus 1/12 of the contestants get a gold medal).

IOI 2006 competition room

The competition room at the IOI 2006

IOI Zagreb 1

In front of the competition room at the IOI 2007

Unlike other science olympiads, the IOI regulations specifically prohibit ranking by countries. Although unofficial rankings are circulated within some participating nations, there is therefore no standard.

List of IOI websites and locations[]

  • IOI 2011 will be held in Thailand, 2011
  • IOI 2010 will be held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2010 [1]
  • IOI 2009 will be held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2009 [2]
  • IOI 2008 will be held in Cairo, Egypt, August 16 - 23, 2008 [3]
  • IOI 2007 was held in Zagreb, Croatia, August 15 - 22, 2007 [4] (results)
  • IOI 2006 was held in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, August 13 - 20, 2006
  • IOI 2005 was held in Nowy Sącz, Poland, August 18 - 25, 2005 [5] (results)
  • IOI 2004 was held in Athens, Greece, September 11 - 18, 2004 [6] (results)
  • IOI 2003 was held in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA, August 16 - 23, 2003 [7] (results)
  • IOI 2002 was held in Yong-In, Republic of Korea, August 18 - 25, 2002 [8]
  • IOI 2001 was held in Tampere, Finland, July 14 - 21, 2001 [9]
  • IOI 2000 was held in Beijing, People's Republic of China, September 23 - 30, 2000
  • IOI 1999 was held in Antalya-Belek, Turkey, October 9 - 16, 1999 [10]
  • IOI 1998 was held in Setúbal, Portugal, September 5 - 12, 1998
  • IOI 1997 was held in Cape Town, South Africa, November 30 - December 7, 1997
  • IOI 1996 was held in Veszprém, Hungary, July 25 - August 2, 1996
  • IOI 1995 was held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 26 - July 3, 1995 [11]
  • IOI 1994 was held in Haninge, Sweden, July 3 - 10, 1994
  • IOI 1993 was held in Mendoza, Argentina, October 16 - 25, 1993 [12]
  • IOI 1992 was held in Bonn, Germany, July 11 - 21, 1992
  • IOI 1991 was held in Athens, Greece, May 19 - 25, 1991
  • IOI 1990 was held in Minsk, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union, July 15 - 21, 1990
  • IOI 1989 was held in Pravetz, Bulgaria, May 16 - 19, 1989.

Multiple IOI Winners[]

The following is a list of the top 20 performers in the history of the IOI. First (I), second (II) and third (III) places among gold medalists are indicated where appropriate.

NameTeamYears
 Philip Wolski  Poland  G(I) 2006  G 2005  G 2004  G 2003      
 Martin Pettai  Estonia  G 2002  G 2001  G 2000  S 1999      
 Andrzej Gasienica-Samek  Poland  G 1999  G 1998  G 1997  S 1996      
 Vladimir Martianov  Russia  G 1999  G(I) 1998  G(I) 1997        
 Martin Mares  Czech Republic  G 1995  G 1994   G 1993        
 John Pardon  United States  G 2007  G 2006   G 2005        
 Bruce Merry  South Africa  G 2001  G 2000   S 1999   B 1998   B 1997   B 1996  
 Alex Schwendner  United States  G 2005  G 2003   S 2004   S 2002      
 Wolfgang Thaller  Austria  G 1997  G 1996  S 1999  S 1998      
 Victor Bargachev  Russia  G(I) 1995  G(I) 1994  S 1993        
 Mihai Patrascu  Romania  G(II) 2001  G 2000  S 1999        
 Roman Pastoukhov  Russia  G 2000  G(II) 1999  S 2001        
 Piotr Zieliński  Poland  G 1997  G(III) 1996  S 1995        
 Miroslav Dudik  Slovakia  G 1997  G 1996   S 1995        
 Richard Kralovic  Slovakia  G 1999  G 1998   S 1997        
 Tomasz Czajka  Poland  G 2000  G 1999   S 1998         
 Petr Mitrichev  Russia  G 2002  G 2000  S 2001        
 Luka Kalinovcic  Croatia  G 2004  G 2003   S 2002        
 Rostislav Rumenov  Bulgaria  G 2007  G 2006   S 2005        
 Tzvetomir Petrov  Bulgaria  G(I) 1990  G 1993   B 1991        
 Tero Karras  Finland   G 2000  S 1999   S 1998   S 1997      
 Nikolai Dourov  Russia  G 1996  S 1998  S 1997   S 1995      
 Hu Weidong  China  G(I) 2005  G(II) 2004          
 Chen Hong  China  G(I) 1999  G(II) 2000          

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