Let’s invent something together. Every day, Mozilla Research engineers tackle the most challenging problems on the web platform. All our promising solutions are developed in open communities, so we can build the Internet of the future together.
Follow us at: the recent trends on mobile technology, smartphones might one day replace your laptops, desktop CPUs.except. Mozilla supports a wide variety of exciting open web technologies, and we encourage their use. This page offers links to interesting demonstrations of these technologies. If you know of a good demonstration or application of open web technology, please add a link to the appropriate section here.
Mixed Reality
Build virtual and augmented reality applications for headsets and browsers.
- Learn aboutMixed Reality
Open Media
Tomorrow’s media codecs and formats should be scalable, web-friendly and open to all.
- Read about AV1 & Media Codecs
Speech & Machine Learning
This speech-to-text engine uses deep learning techniques to improve accuracy.
- Read about Speech & Machine Learning
Rust
Get speed, parallelism, and safety in this modern systems programming language.
- Learn aboutRust
Servo
This modern browser engine, written in Rust, takes advantage of parallel-processing hardware.
- Learn about theServo engine
WebAssembly
Speed up JavaScript apps using the wasm format as a compiler target.
- Learn aboutWebAssembly
How to Get Involved
Join us. We’re looking for talented folks to join our Emerging Technologies team. You’ll work on projects with potential to turn into end-user products – and make the web a better place.
Research Grants
Mozilla gives out over $500,000 a year to support academic research worldwide on topics including virtual reality, computing ethics, accessibility and open data. Interested? Learn more about our fall and spring deadlines.
Conference Sponsorships
Interested in getting support for your research conference or developer conference? We’d like to help. Read through our guidelines, and apply for a conference sponsorship. Learn more.
Research Internships
Join us for a three-month internship. We accept applications from graduate students in the fall for the following summer. Visit Mozilla’s Careers page to see available internships.
Faculty Collaborations
We welcome Visiting Scientists, Developers, Engineers, Artists and others to work with us on research experiments and independent projects. Get in touch with a Mozilla team member to learn more.
Volunteer
MDN Web Docs relies on contributions from volunteer editors and translators to make this open knowledge repository the best it can be. Want to dig deep into web APIs? This is the place. To find out how to join the MDN volunteer community, visit MDN’s Getting Started page.
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Research Papers
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Mozilla researchers collaborate with peers at universities, non-profit organizations, and tech companies. Visit Papers & Publications to see their recent published work.