The competition begins May 23, when contestants will be given a series of questions to answer in a given amount of time. Submissions will be judged by TopCoder, and the best entries will move on to the next level.

By June 29, after three rounds of competition, the remaining 50 contestants will be flown to Dublin, Irelend, to compete for 30,000 euros ($38,000) in cash and prizes.

Google has sponsored the Code Jam competition for several years in the United States, twice in India and once in China, but this is the first one in Europe. The company opened an engineering center in London last November and also has centers in Dublin; Trondheim, Norway; and Zurich, Switzerland.

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