I've said it before and I'll say it again: the single most effective use of ~$1 million for advancing math and physics research (two disciples for which no non-LaTeX solutions exist) would be to hire some developers for a couple of years and make an enterprise-quality successor to TeX. Keep the math syntax, make it handle infinite pages for the Web, and fix all the awful bits that waste hundreds of thousands of grad-student-man-hours each year.
This isn't fantasy. Zotero is evidence that custom built academic software funded by charitable foundations can be a tremendously positive service to the academic community.
This isn't fantasy. Zotero is evidence that custom built academic software funded by charitable foundations can be a tremendously positive service to the academic community.
https://www.zotero.org/about/
Also, everyone should read deong's comment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8511509