The 2008 Google / PSU Summer of Code is long over. Here’s a
quick, belated summary of the 2008 year.
Portland State University was able to mentor seven projects
in 2008. Of these, six completed successfully. These were:
Mentor: Joshua Triplett; Student: Alexey Zaytsev. A
C code “linker” based on SPARSE. The student
successfully constructed this key component of a
multi-file static analyzer.
Mentor: David Percy; Student: Devin Chalmers.
CocoaBugs: An Artificial Life Framework.
The student created a framework / testbed for a
particular class of a-life models, with a beautiful
user interface.
Mentor: Greg Kroah Hartman; Student: Loren
Davis. Open Doors. The student built an
open-source Linux implementation of Sun’s Doors
interprocess communication framework.
Mentor: Len Shapiro; Student: Tom Raney. The
PostgreSQL Optimizer Exposed. The student combined
some existing solutions for instrumentation and
visualization with new code to obtain a powerful tool
for understanding the detailed workings of the
PostgreSQL query optimizer on a given query.
Mentor: Keith Packard; Student: Ralf Juengling.
Revamping Lush’s Memory Management. The student
wrote an incremental garbage collection library for
Lush based on ideas from the Nickle programming
language implementation. The result will also be
folded back into Nickle.
Mentor: Len Shapiro; Student: Adam Bresee. A System
for Patent Categorization and Analysis. The
student wrote natural-language analysis code to mine
the US Patent database.
Congratulations to all these students, and our most grateful thanks to their mentors. This was highly appreciated.
