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Mozilla Currently Accepting Research Grants

March 28th, 2018 / in Announcements, research horizons, Research News / by Helen Wright
Mozilla is currently seeking proposals for research funding to support its mission: to ensure the internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all.

These grants include topics directly relevant to current research, as well as topics that fit more broadly with their vision for improving the internet and implementing the principles of their manifesto.

Mozilla funds research in a wide variety of ways, including building new technologies, improving existing technologies, and studying how people use technology. Their research domains include Emerging Technologies’ four core areas:

  • Open Web Platform, such as Rust, Servo and Daala. We recently funded projects testing the Rust and bindgen compilers, and implementing Typed WebAssembly.
  • Mixed Reality, including virtual reality and augmented reality. In 2017 we funded a study into gender differences in virtual reality, and another exploring how to design pro-social norms in VR.
  • Speech, Language & Assistants: recent funded research includes improvements to word2vec; aiding the creation of a corpus of human-chatbot interaction open data; and mining translations from existing webpages.
  • New Explorations: We have funded proposals to design more usable IoT access controls; family use of IoT; and building distributed computing in remote islands
Mozilla Currently Accepting Research Grants

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