The Google Summer of Code project provides stipends for students to work on open source projects. On completion of the project, the student receives $4500. This year there were 98 participating open source projects with over 7000 applicants from 90 different countries from which 1125 students were selected to work on the respective open source projects. Three students from BYU, two computer science majors and one information systems major, were accepted into the prestigious program.

Neha Rungta is a PhD candidate in computer science conducting research in Software Verification with Dr. Eric Mercer. Neha will be working on the Java Pathfinder (JPF) model checker, which was originally developed at NASA Ames Research Center. Her work focuses on using JPF as a test engine to discover concurrency errors in multi-threaded programs. In addition to her course work and the work on her defense, Neha serves as the student representative on the department's Graduate Affairs Committee. She is also the president of the university's Women in CS club. In 2007, Neha was named a Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholar.

David Hilton is a senior finishing up his undergraduate degree in computer science. His project is "Adding Backward Chaining to a Rete Network" for the Lisp-based Intelligent Software Agents (LISA) project, an OSS library. Implementing backward chaining in will provide a system of one-to-many matching, allowing LISA to be efficiently used for logic programming. David is planning to attend graduate school upon completion of his bachelor's degree. He is the current president of the BYU Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). For more information about the ACM Club, you can contact the members or visit the website at http://www.acm.byu.edu/