I don't know if they have anything specific planned. Google hired a lot of former Bell Labs people, several of whom are working on Go. They are probably lettin

I don't know if they have anything specific planned. Google hired a lot of former Bell Labs people, several of whom are working on Go. They are probably letting those people working on new ideas as they wish, with the hope that people who made stuff like Unix will make something else game-changing and worthwhile for the rest of Google eventually. Sort of like MSR, except not just academic research.