Emoji for Unicode: Open Source Data for the Encoding Proposal

By Markus Scherer, Google Internationalization Engineering Emoji (絵文字), or "picture characters", the graphical versions of :-) an... Read more »

WHOPR - A scalable whole program optimizer for GCC

By Diego Novillo, Google Compiler Team Traditional compilation proceeds one file at a time. The compiler optimizes and generates code for ea... Read more »

Serious Geeking Going on in Oxford Over Online Publishing

By J-P Stacey, OxfordGeeks On Wednesday 22 October, over a hundred geeks attended the ninth Oxford Geek Night , upstairs at the Jericho Tave... Read more »

Mixxx's Google Summer of Code 2008 Roundup Report

By Albert Santoni, Mixxx Project Google Summer of Code 2008 has been a great opportunity to bring fresh new talent into the Mixxx developme... Read more »

plop: Probabilistic Learning of Programs

By Moshe Looks, Google Research Cross-posted with the Google Research blog Traditional machine learning systems work with relatively flat, u... Read more »

C++ Standards Meeting Finalizes Feature-Complete Draft Standard

By Matt Austern and Lawrence Crowl, Google In late September, Google hosted the 44th meeting of the ISO C++ Standards Committee in San Fran... Read more »

SWIG's First Google Summer of Code

By William Fulton, SWIG administrator SWIG is a programmers tool for semi-automating the calls to C or C++ code from almost any other progr... Read more »

Behind the apps: Amazon and imeem

Last week we introduced a couple Android developers who shared how they built their Android apps and gave their insight into Android app de... Read more »

OpenCog and GSoC

By Ben Goertzel, PhD, Director of Research, SIAI This summer OpenCog was chosen by Google to participate in the Google Summer of Code™ proj... Read more »

Nmap's Fourth GSoC: Success Stories and Lessons Learned

By Gordon "Fyodor" Lyon, author of the Nmap Project and GSoC Mentor The Nmap Security Scanner Project was honored to participate ... Read more »

GitTogether '08

By Shawn Pearce, Google Open Source Programs Office and Git contributor Last week Google played host to the first Git developer conference ... Read more »

Gerrit and Repo, the Android Source Management Tools

By Jeff Bailey, Open Source Team A couple weeks ago, we announced the Android open source release. Beside it, we silently released the too... Read more »