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Cleve Moler - Computer Scientist
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Cleve Moler

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Cleve Moler is an American mathematician and computer scientist who created MATLAB in the late 1970s at the University of New Mexico as an interactive interface to the LINPACK and EISPACK linear algebra libraries. In 1984 he co-founded MathWorks with Jack Little to commercialize MATLAB, which became a standard tool in engineering, control systems, and numerical analysis. He contributed to several widely used numerical libraries and remains chief mathematician at MathWorks.

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Cleve Moler ranks #70 of 185 in the Computer Scientist ranking, behind Peter Norvig, ahead of Peter O'Hearn.

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Why did Cleve Moler create MATLAB?

Cleve Moler created MATLAB in the late 1970s as a teaching tool to give his students easy access to LINPACK and EISPACK linear algebra Fortran subroutine libraries without needing to write Fortran code. The name stands for 'Matrix Laboratory,' reflecting its original focus on numerical linear algebra.

When was MathWorks founded and who co-founded it?

MathWorks was co-founded by Cleve Moler and Jack Little in 1984 to commercialize MATLAB. Little, an engineer, recognized the commercial potential of MATLAB and rewrote it in C with a professional interface, while Moler provided the mathematical and algorithmic expertise.

What is Cleve Moler's role at MathWorks today?

Moler serves as Chief Mathematician at MathWorks, where he continues to guide the development of MATLAB's mathematical core. He maintains a blog called 'Cleve's Corner' where he discusses numerical algorithms, MATLAB history, and topics in scientific computing.

What linear algebra libraries did Cleve Moler contribute to?

Moler was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for solving linear systems and eigenvalue problems that predated LAPACK. These libraries were the computational foundation of early MATLAB and were widely used in scientific computing throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

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