have received the 2016 AMS Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics. Citation Michael Gage and Arnold Pizer at the University of Rochester are the mathematicians who created and developed WeB-WorK, one of the first web-based systems that assign and grade homework problems in mathematics and science courses and the most successful that is nonprofit, free, open source, and textbook/publisher independent. There are now almost 1,000 institutions (high schools, colleges, large research universities) using WeBWorK, and its Open Problem Library contains more than 30,000 problems: college algebra through linear algebra, complex analysis, probability, and statistics. Gage and Pizer began working on WeBWorK in the mid-1990s and launched it with the "Calculus

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Every other year when a new AMS president takes office, the Notices publishes interviews with the outgoing and incoming presidents. What follows is an edited version of an interview with David Vogan, whose two-year term as president began on February 1, 2013. Vogan is professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The interview was conducted in fall 2012 by Notices senior writer and deputy editor Allyn Jackson. An interview with past president Eric M. Friedlander appeared in the February 2013 issue of the Notices. Notices: Communication in mathematics is something you are very interested in. What do you see as the challenges here? Vogan: There are a lot of wonderful ideas for using new technology to support communication. For example, MathOverflow takes advantage of

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