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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.

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.

Contents 1 Structure of the competition 2 Results from IOI 2006 2.1 Country Ranking 2.1.1 Results from former IOI's 2.2 Winners 3 List of IOI websites and locations 4 See also 5 External links

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, C++ 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 contestants get a gold medal).

Unlike other science olympiads the IOI regulations specifically prohibit ranking by countries. Although several countries apply their own algorithms for country ranking there is therefore no standard.

• 2005 Poland (stats source: [1])
• 2004 Greece (stats source: [2])
• 2003 USA (stats source: [3])

1. Filip Wolski (Poland)
2. Jae Hyun Park (Korea)
3. Long Fan (China)
4. Sergey Kopeliovich (Russia)
5. John Pardon (USA)
6. Rostislav Milenov Rumenov (Bulgaria)
7. Mircea Bogdan Pasoi (Romania)
8. Vladimir Minajlov (Belarus)
9. Zhū Zéyuán (China)
10. Ilya Razenshteyn (Russia)
11. Denis Denisov (Russia)
12. Nikita Lesnikov (Belarus)
13. Vahid Liaghat (Iran)
14. Wang Dong (China)
15. Christopher Chen (Australia)
16. Toshiki Kataoka (Japan)
17. Daniil Neiter (Ukraine)
18. Jakub Kallas (Poland)
19. Li Tianyi (China)
20. Atamurad Hezretkuliev (Turkmenistan)
21. Masaki Watanabe (Japan)
22. Marcin Andrychowicz (Poland)
23. Chi Kit Lam (Hong Kong)
24. Codrut Miron Grosu (Romania)

• IOI 2010 will be held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2010
• IOI 2009 will be held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2009
• IOI 2008 will be held in Alexandria, Egypt, 2008
• IOI 2007 will be held in Zagreb, Croatia, 2007 [4]
• IOI 2006 was held in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, August 13 - 20, 2006 [5]
• IOI 2005 was held in Nowy Sącz, Poland, August 18 - 25, 2005 [6]
• IOI 2004 was held in Athens, Greece, September 11 - 18, 2004 [7]
• IOI 2003 was held in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA, August 16 - 23, 2003 [8]
• IOI 2002 was held in Yong-In, Republic of Korea, August 18 - 25, 2002 [9]
• IOI 2001 was held in Tampere, Finland, July 14 - 21, 2001 [10]
• 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 [11]
• 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 [12]
• IOI 1994 was held in Haninge, Sweden, July 3 - 10, 1994
• IOI 1993 was held in Mendoza, Argentina, October 16 - 25, 1993 [13]
• 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.

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• International science olympiad
• ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
• Central European Olympiad in Informatics
• British Informatics Olympiad
• National Olympiad in Informatics, China
• USACO
• Indian Computing Olympiad
• Turkish Informatics Olympiad

• IOI International Committee Website
• IOI Secretariat Website
• IOI 2005 Website
• IOI 2006 Website
• IOI 2007 Website
• Olympiad Forum in Informatics (had been closed and now reborn as a Chinese-only web forum)
• Photos from some former Informatics Olympiads.
• Iranian National Olympiad in Informatics
• Ukrainian Olympiad in Informatics