Emerging Technologies

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Emerging Technologies was a team inside Mozilla that worked on research, development, and expanding the foundations of the open web.

Emerging Technologies Projects

• Project Bergamot -- client-side, ML-based language translation engine for incorporation in web browsers
• Hubs -- private 3D virtual worlds for meeting, sharing, and collaboration

Projects Emerging Technologies Carried Forward

• Rust programming language
• Cranelift -- WebAssesmbly code generator
• Wasmtime -- stand-alone runtime for WebAssembly
• WASI -- modular system interface for WebAssembly
• Servo -- independent web engine built using Rust
• WebRender -- 2D graphics rendering engine written in Rust, used in Servo and currently in Firefox
• Pathfinder -- fast, practical GPU-based rasterizer for fonts and vector graphics, written in Rust
• Project Deep Speech -- open source speech to text engine
• Mozilla TTS -- machine-learning based text-to-speech library
• Firefox Listen
• Mozilla Research Grants
• Developer Relations (DevRel) -- including Mozilla's Hacks Blog
• MDN Web Docs
• AV1 -- Royalty-free video format specifications, codec development including the rav1e Rust-based AV1 encoder, and incorporation in Firefox

See Also

• Speaker Series
• ET Lightning Talks at All Hands (looking for recordings)
• https://research.mozilla.org/
• https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/category/emerging-tech/
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/EmergingTechnology
• dweb
• past-projects