Robert Miner, MathJax Project Director, passed away this morning from liver cancer. I have worked closely with Robert for about 15 years and considered him a close personal friend. I worked with him on virtually a daily basis here at Design Science for most of those years. I am sure many of you reading this also knew him as one of the most friendly and open people around. Our condolences go out to his wife and son. We will miss
him greatly.

AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics, has announced today that it has become a MathJax partner, providing major funding and using MathJax to render mathematics in its online journals.

The American Institute of Physics is an organization of 10 physical science societies, representing more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators and is one of the world’s largest publishers of scientific information in physics. AIP pursues innovation in electronic publishing of scholarly journals and offers full-solution publishing services for its Member Societies. AIP publishes 13 journals; two magazines, including its flagship publication Physics Today; and the AIP Conference Proceedings series.

“Both our reader and author communities will benefit greatly from AIP’s use and support of MathJax,” said AIP Director of Business Development Terry Hulbert. “The MathJax project is an important step forward, not only in the clarity with which it displays math, but in the usability and accessibility of math and online learning. AIP is proud to support the MathJax project.”

“AIP’s use and financial support of MathJax is a huge boost to the project,” said Robert Miner, MathJax Project Director. “This will significantly increase awareness and hopefully attract more support for MathJax.”

MathJax lets users copy equations from AIP’s online journal articles and paste them directly into Word and LaTeX documents, science blogs, MathType, and research wikis. Equations can also be copied and pasted into calculation software like Maple, Mathematica, and others. MathJax supports the use of STIX fonts (stixfonts.org), which will improve MathJax’s speed when rendering mathematics.

AIP is seeking feedback from the scientific community on the utility of MathJax as it continues to develop the service. To see MathJax in action, visit the 50th Anniversary issue of the Journal of Mathematical Physics (jmp.aip.org/resource/1/jmapaq/v51/i1). Every article in the issue is freely available. Select read online for any article, and once in the HTML view, go to the navigation bar and turn on MathJax.

IEEE, the world’s largest professional association, gave the MathJax project a boost last month when it joined the ranks of sponsoring organizations as a MathJax Supporter. Beyond the welcome financial support, we are very pleased to have the benefit of IEEE’s extensive experience and leadership in making scientific information available in electronic form.

The IEEE Xplore Digital Library provides access to over three million documents including research articles, standards, transactions and conference publications. MathJax has already greatly benefited from suggestions and bug reports from IEEE technical staff investigating the performance of MathJax with that trove of real-world technical content, and we look forward to further collaboration.

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