  MAXIMA is a balloon-borne platform for measuring the anisotropy of the Cosmic
Microwave Background (CMB). It has measured the CMB power spectrum with a
ten-arcminute FWHM beam, corresponding to a detection of the power spectrum out
to spherical harmonic multipole l~1000. The spectrum is consistent with a flat
Universe with a nearly scale-invariant initial spectrum of adiabatic density
fluctuations. Moreover, the MAXIMA data are free from any notable non-Gaussian
contamination and from foreground dust emission. In the same region, the WMAP
experiment observes the same structure as that observed by MAXIMA, as evinced
by analysis of both maps and power spectra. The next step in the evolution of
the MAXIMA program is MAXIPOL, which will observe the polarization of the CMB
with comparable resolution and high sensitivity over a small patch of the sky.
