MATLAB, short for matrix laboratory, began as a program written by the mathematician Cleve Moler to give students easy access to matrix software libraries without having to write Fortran. Jack Little and Steve Bangert recognised its commercial potential, rewrote it in C and founded the company MathWorks, which released the first commercial version. The language is built around arrays and matrices, and offers tools for plotting, numerical analysis, signal processing and simulation. Later additions such as Simulink allowed engineers to model dynamic systems graphically. MATLAB became a standard tool in engineering and scientific research and in university teaching.
Before and after
- 1984Discovery of hassium
- 1984Rise of visual kei
- 1984Founding of Lenovo
- 1984Establishment of Great Himalayan National Park
- 1984Creation of MATLAB
- 1984Creation of Objective-C
- 1984Release of LaTeX
- 1984Establishment of Sundarbans National Park
- 1984The Turkana Boy skeleton is found
More in Science & technology
- 25 April 1953Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
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