Bitwise

Bitwise

Type	Non-Profit Organization
Genre	Technical
Founded	2001
Place	India
Institute	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Prize money	over INR 200,000
Website	http://2015.bitwise.co.in/

Bitwise is an annual programming, application and web development fest organised by CodeClub, the CSE Department Society of IIT Kharagpur over three days in the 2nd week of March. With huge support from the Department of CSE, the Bitwise team works intensely and enthusiastically to bring out the best workshops, guest lectures, and events centered around the most trending topics of Computer Science. The last iteration, Bitwise 2015, was held from March 13 to March 15, 2015. Prizes worth close to INR 200,000 were distributed.

SSD was the Title Sponsor for Bitwise 2015, and Xerox, its Associate Sponsor, with HackerRank slated to be the coding Partner. The 2015 edition had prize money over INR 200,000 in the offing.

The fest has a huge participation from students in the campus from all departments and students from close to 50 colleges all over India arriving in the campus in 2014 to take part in the first iteration of the three day fest.

History

Bitwise was started in the year 2001 by the senior undergraduate students of Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The contest provides programmers across the globe a platform to compete, testing their ability to develop efficient algorithms to problems within a given time constraint. Over the last eleven years, the contest has grown in popularity and prize money, attracting the world's top programmers. In year 2014, Bitwise grew from being an annual online programming contest to a complete fest which had a lot of events in addition to the flagship coding marathon.

Events

BitWise

Logo for the event Bermuda Triangle in Bitwise 2015

BitWise is the main flagship event of the fest. Team size is limited to a maximum of three, and solutions have traditionally been expected to be provided in C (programming language) or C++. The solutions are evaluated not only on the basis of correctness, but also on their time and space complexities.

Bermuda Triangle

Logo for the event Code Gamble in Bitwise 2015

Bermuda Triangle is an event for a team size of 3 members. The team members will be given different problem sets, but they have to switch at the end of every time interval.The event tests the team members based on their understanding and team work extensively .

Code Gamble

In Code Gamble, competitors bet upon a concealed set of questions of varying difficulties and programming paradigms and try to gather the maximum points.This event tests the credence of the competitors in their abilities to tackle questions focusing on different flavors of competitive programming.

Logo for the event Enigma in Bitwise 2015

Enigma

Enigma is an online quiz which was first introduced as a part of Bitwise 2007. It serves as a curtain raiser event which takes it participants on a journey discovering the facts, ideas and luminaries in various fields. It is traditionally conducted a few days prior to Bitwise. This year's event will begin on March 11, 2015.

Winners

Year	Winner	College/Institution
2003	Arun Kishore & Pham Min Tri	NT United, Singapore
2004	Amey Karkare	IIT Bombay
2005	Robin Nittka & Adrian Kuegel	University of Ulm
2006	Team TwoDashHeadedSpaceMonkey	University of KTH
2007	Team TwoDashHeadedSpaceMonkey	University of KTH
2008	Robin Nittka & Christoph Schwirzer	University of Ulm
2009	Team ACRush	Tsinghua University
2010	Team Eryx	Warsaw University
2011	Team Gawry	University of Wrocław
2012	Team Luminar	Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2013	Team Mithril	Shanghai Jiao Tong University

External links

• A basic description of fests in India
• Bitwise Website
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
• Bitwise 2015 Registration
• Official Twitter page