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Headquartered in New York City, Stack Exchange is a fast-growing network of question and answer sites covering a diverse range of topics from software programming and cooking to photography and personal finance. Founded in 2008, co-founders Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky brought together millions of computer programmers from around the world to help each other with detailed technical questions. Based on Stack Overflow’s success, the company expanded and launched the Stack Exchange Network in August 2010. Stack Exchange currently consists of 46 sites and has more than 19 million unique monthly visitors – and growing. To date, the company has raised more than $18 million from Union Square Ventures, Index Capital and Spark Capital. For more information, please visit www.stackexchange.com.

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) promotes the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare. Its mission is to serve the sciences of physics and astronomy by serving its Member Societies, individual scientists, students and the general public. As a “society of societies,” AIP supports ten Member Societies, who collectively represent more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators in the global physical science community. With an extensive catalog of top-cited journals, AIP is one of the world’s leading publishers in the physical sciences. 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. For more information, please visit www.aip.org.