Evolution of MATLAB

When: 
Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 7:00pm
Room: 
E51-315
Lecturer(s): 
Cleve Moler

Joint Meeting with IEEE Computer Society
We show how MATLAB has evolved over the last 25 years from a simple matrix calculator to a powerful technical computing environment. We demonstrate several examples of MATLAB applications. We conclude with a few comments about future developments, including Parallel MATLAB.

Lecturer Biography: 

Cleve Moler is the original author of MATLAB and one of the founders of the MathWorks. He is currently chairman and chief scientist of the company, as well as a member of the National Academy of Engineering and president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics(SIAM).