Cleve Moler

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Cleve Barry Moler (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 received her doctorate from Stanford University under George E. Forsythe in 1965 ( Finite Difference Methods for the Eigenvalues ​​of Laplace's Operator ). Then he was an instructor for computer science at Stanford and in 1965/66 as a post-doctoral student at the ETH Zurich . In 1966 he became an assistant professor and then an associate professor at the University of Michigan , was a visiting associate professor at Stanford University in 1970/71 and an associate professor from 1972 and professor at the University of New Mexico from 1974 . From 1980 to 1984 he headed the Faculty of Computer Science there.

Moler was co-author of the Fortran program libraries for numerical linear algebra EISPACK and LINPACK, developed at the Argonne National Laboratory in the 1970s . To make this more accessible to his students at the University of Mexico (without using Fortran), he developed MATLAB. In 1984 he founded MathWorks with Jack Little and Steve Bangert to market MATLAB. Since 1996 he has been Chief Scientist and Chairman of Mathworks in Natick, Massachusetts. Before that he was a manager at Intel Scientific Computing from 1984 to 1996. He also worked for Ardent Computer Corporation. Jack Dongarra and Charles Van Loan are among his PhD students .

Moler is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery , a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1997) and was Vice President and President of SIAM from 2007 to 2009 . He holds honorary doctorates from Linköping University , the University of Waterloo (2001) and the Technical University of Denmark (2004). For 2014 he was awarded the John von Neumann Medal . In 2010 he received the Hans Schneider Prize and in 2017 he became a Fellow of the Computer History Museum . In 2011 he received the Sidney Fernbach Award .

Fonts

  • with 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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data from American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2005
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Moler, Cleve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moler, Cleve Barry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Salt Lake City , Utah