Cleve Moler

Cleve Moler Barry ( born August 17, 1939 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American mathematician and computer scientist who deals with numerical linear algebra. He was involved in the development of LINPACK and EISPACK and is the developer of MATLAB.

Cleve Moler studied at Caltech (Bachelor 1961) and in 1965 at Stanford University with George E. Forsythe PhD (Finite Difference Methods for the Eigenvalues ​​of Laplace 's operator). He then entered Stanford computer science and Instructor for 1965/66 as a post- doctoral student at the ETH Zurich. In 1966 he was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, was 1970/71 Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University, and from 1972 Associate Professor and in 1974 Professor of the University of New Mexico. 1980-1984 he stood there in front of the faculty of computer science.

Moler was co -author of the Fortran program libraries developed in the 1970s at the Argonne National Laboratory for numerical linear algebra EISPACK and LINPACK. In order to facilitate access to the University of Mexico to this his students ( without the use of Fortran ), he developed MATLAB. In 1984 he founded with Jack Little and Steve Bangert MathWorks MATLAB for marketing. Since 1996 he has been chief scientist and chairman of Mathworks in Natick (Massachusetts ). Previously, he was from 1984 to 1996 Manager at Intel Scientific Computing. He also worked for the Ardent Computer Corporation. His doctoral include Jack Dongarra and Charles Van Loan.

Moler is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, member of the National Academy of Engineering (1997) and was Vice President and 2007-2009 President of SIAM. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Linköping, University of Waterloo (2001) and the Technical University of Denmark ( 2004). For 2014, it the John von Neumann Medal was awarded.

Writings

  • George E. Forsythe, Michael A. Malcolm Computer methods for mathematical computations, Prentice- Hall Series in Automatic Computation, Prentice- Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977
  • Numerical computing with MATLAB, SIAM 2004
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