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

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

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 Voice Fill -- speech recognition extension for Firefox
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

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 == Projects Emerging Technologies Carried Forward ==
 * [https://www.rust-lang.org/ Rust] programming language
+* [https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/tree/main/cranelift Cranelift] -- WebAssesmbly code generator
+* [https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime Wasmtime] -- stand-alone runtime for WebAssembly
+* [https://wasi.dev/ WASI] -- modular system interface for WebAssembly
 * [https://servo.org/ Servo] -- independent web engine built using Rust
 * [https://github.com/servo/webrender WebRender] -- 2D graphics rendering engine written in Rust, used in Servo and currently in Firefox