We are happy to announce the results of the Mozilla Research Grant program for the second half of 2017. This was a competitive process, with over 70 applicants. After three rounds of judging, we selected a total of fourteen proposals, ranging from building tools to support open web platform projects like Rust and WebAssembly to designing digital assistants for low- and middle- income families and exploring decentralized web projects in the Orkney Islands. All these projects support Mozilla\u2019s mission to make the Internet safer, more empowering, and more accessible.<\/p>\n
The Mozilla Research Grants program is part of Mozilla\u2019s Emerging Technologies commitment to being a world-class example of inclusive innovation and impact culture-and reflects Mozilla\u2019s commitment to open innovation, continuously exploring new possibilities with and for diverse communities.<\/p>\n
| Zhendong Su<\/td>\n | University of California, Davis<\/td>\n | Practical, Rigorous Testing of the Mozilla Rust and bindgen Compilers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| Ross Tate<\/td>\n | Cornell University<\/td>\n | Inferable Typed WebAssembly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| Laura Watts<\/td>\n | IT University of Copenhagen<\/td>\n | Shaping community-based managed services (‘Orkney Cloud Saga’)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| Svetlana Yarosh<\/td>\n | University of Minnesota<\/td>\n | Children & Parent Using Speech Interfaces for Informational Queries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| Serge Egelman<\/td>\n | UC Berkeley \/ International Computer Science Institute<\/td>\n | Towards Usable IoT Access Controls in the Home<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| Alexis Hiniker<\/td>\n | University of Washington<\/td>\n | Understanding Design Opportunities for In-Home Digital Assistants for Low- and Middle-Income Families<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| Blase Ur<\/td>\n | University of Chicago<\/td>\n | Improving Communication About Privacy in Web Browsers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| Wendy Ju<\/td>\n | Cornell Tech<\/td>\n | Video Data Corpus of People Reacting to Chatbot Answers to Enable Error Recognition and Repair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| Katherine Isbister<\/td>\n | University of California Santa Cruz<\/td>\n | Designing for VR Publics: Creating the right interaction infrastructure for pro-social connection, privacy, inclusivity, and co-mingling in social VR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| Sanjeev Arora<\/td>\n | Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study<\/td>\n | Compact representations of meaning of natural language: Toward a rigorous and interpretable study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| Rachel Cummings<\/td>\n | Georgia Tech<\/td>\n | Differentially Private Analysis of Growing Datasets<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| Tongping Liu<\/td>\n | University of Texas at San Antonio<\/td>\n | Guarder: Defending Heap Vulnerabilities with Flexible Guarantee and Better Performance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n The Mozilla Foundation will also be providing grants in support of two additional proposals:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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