Mozilla has identified recipients of grants for research projects

Mozilla Company defined projects that will receive grants in the first half of 2019 under the initiatives to stimulate research in the field of the Internet. The grant is $25, 10% of which is donated to child-care charities. Grants are awarded to individual researchers from universities, research institutes and non-profit organizations from any country.

Among those who received grants developments:

• Creation plug-in for programming language support Julia in the platform Iodidesaimed at providing an interactive browser environment for data analysis and collaborative research using code in various programming languages. Currently, only Python is fully supported in Iodide among non-JavaScript languages, (used
  prepared in mozilla python-stack pyodidecompiled to WebAssembly). A similar stack for launching scientific applications in a browser is planned prepare for Julia using existing WASM port this language, which will be finalized with tools for automatic data type conversion between JavaScript and Julia;

• Exploring the possibility of using augmented and virtual reality technologies to organize remote participation in local events such as conferences, as well as exploring means for interacting with 3D content through flat 2D interfaces;
• Studying the impact of taking into account user preferences in advertising networks;
• Study of people's perception and use of online experiments, data collection requests and other methods of passive accumulation of information about the user's work;
• Development of voice interfaces that take into account the issues of privacy, inclusiveness and wide availability (Accessibility) in India;
• Designing programming interfaces for access control in Wasmtime (runtime for isolated WebAssembly applications);
• Optimization of processing methods and quality of obtaining speech data accumulated using crowdsourcing and joint verification processes;
• Research of alternative forms of monetization of content development on the Web. Development of an open standard for decentralized collection of microdonations to support web projects;
• Development of a toolkit for measuring the performance of generic functions (Generic) in Rust (assessing how justified it is to generate specialized code for each implementation of a generic function and how the compiler can be improved);
• Create a secure model for constantly listening voice interfaces that are not limited to responding to system-activating keywords;
• Development of machine learning system Fathom to recognize various parts of web pages and take into account privacy issues when using it;
• Studying the impact of using HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocols in Tor on
  performance and anonymity in context Development of project to integrate Tor into Firefox. With the appearance of built-in Tor support in Firefox, a significant increase in the load on the Tor infrastructure is expected, and therefore it is proposed to explore possible ways to optimize and use Tor over the QUIC and DTLS protocols.

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