[BANANA] ASC ITS SEMINAR: Mon, Nov 19 @ 2:00pm, B123 Auditorium

[Tiffany Ashworth]

ASC Institute for Terascale Simulation
Lecture Series 2007

<http://carweb.llnl.gov/seminarViewer/seminarViewer.php?id=227>Evolution 
of MATLAB

Dr. Cleve Moler
The MathWorks

Monday, November 19, 2007
Building 123 Auditorium
(Common Use Facility - foreign nationals may attend)
2:00pm

ABSTRACT:
In this talk, Dr. Moler will show how MATLAB has 
evolved over the last 25 years from a simple 
matrix calculator to a powerful technical 
computing environment.  He will demonstrate 
several examples of MATLAB applications and 
conclude with a few comments about future 
developments, including Parallel MATLAB.

SPEAKER BIO:
Cleve Barry Moler is a mathematician and computer 
programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In 
the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors 
of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for 
numerical computing. He invented MATLAB, a 
numerical computing package, to give his students 
at the University of New Mexico easy access to 
these libraries without writing Fortran. In 1984, 
he co-founded The MathWorks with Jack Little to commercialize this program.

He received his bachelor's degree from Caltech in 
1961, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He 
was a professor of math and computer science for 
almost 20 years at the University of Michigan, 
Stanford University, and the University of New 
Mexico. Before joining The MathWorks full time in 
1989, he also worked for Intel Hypercube and 
Ardent Computer Corporation. He is also co-author 
of four textbooks on numerical methods and is a 
member of the Association for Computing 
Machinery. He has served on the Board of Trustees 
of the Society for Industrial and Applied 
Mathematics for many years and is currently SIAM’s President.

Moler was elected to the National Academy of 
Engineering in 1997. He received an honorary 
degree from Linköping University, Sweden. He 
received an honorary degree of Doctor of 
Mathematics from the University of Waterloo in 
2001 and in 2004 he was appointed Honorary Doctor 
(doctor technices, honoris causa) at the Technical University of Denmark.

He is the father of Kathryn Ann Moler, an 
associate professor of physics and applied physics at Stanford University.

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