Cleve Moler
Cleve Barry Moler (born August 17, 1939) is an
American mathematician and computer programmer Cleve Barry Moler
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 created 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 MathWorks with Jack Little to
Cleve Moler, chairman, and cofounder of
commercialize this program.[1]
MathWorks
Born August 17, 1939
Biography Education California Institute of Technology
(BS)
He received his bachelor's degree from California Stanford University (PhD)
Institute of Technology in 1961, and a Ph.D. in 1965
Known for MATLAB
from Stanford University, both in mathematics.[2] He
worked for Charles Lawson at the Jet Propulsion Awards Computer Pioneer Award (2012)
Laboratory in 1961 and 1962. IEEE John von Neumann Medal
(2014)
He was a professor of mathematics and computer
Scientific career
science for almost 20 years at the University of
Michigan, Stanford University, and the University of Fields Mathematics, Computer science
New Mexico.[3] Before joining MathWorks full-time in Institutions University of Michigan
1989, he also worked for Intel Hypercube, where he Stanford University
coined the term "embarrassingly parallel", and Ardent
University of New Mexico
Computer Corporation. He is also co-author of four
textbooks on numerical methods and is a member of Thesis Finite difference methods for the
the Association for Computing Machinery. He was eigenvalues of Laplace's
president of the Society for Industrial and Applied operator ([Link]
Mathematics 2007–2008.[4] g/oclc/4856237) (1965)
Doctoral George Forsythe
He was elected a member of the National Academy of advisor
Engineering on February 14, 1997, for conceiving and
Doctoral Jack Dongarra
developing widely used mathematical software. He
students Charles F. Van Loan
received an honorary degree from Linköping
University, Sweden. He received an honorary degree of
Doctor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo in 2001.[5] On April 30, 2004, he was appointed
Honorary Doctor (doctor technices, honoris causa) at the Technical University of Denmark. In 2009, he
was recognized by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics as a SIAM Fellow [6] for his
outstanding contributions to numerical analysis and software, including the invention of MATLAB. In
April 2012, the IEEE Computer Society named Cleve the recipient of the 2012 Computer Pioneer
Award.[7] In February 2014, IEEE named Cleve the recipient of the 2014 IEEE John von Neumann
Medal.[8] In April 2017, he was made Fellow of the Computer History Museum.[9][10]
Publications
Forsythe, George E., Malcolm, Michael A., Moler, Cleve B., "Computer methods for
mathematical computations", Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic Computation, Prentice-Hall.,
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1977. MR0458783 ([Link]
mr=0458783) ISBN 0-13-165332-6
Moler, Cleve B., "Numerical Computing with MATLAB" ([Link]
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2004, ISBN 978-0-89871-560-6
References
1. Schwan, Henry. "MathWorks in Natick marks its 35th anniversary" ([Link]
[Link]/news/20190330/mathworks-in-natick-marks-its-35th-anniversary). MetroWest
Daily News, Framingham, MA. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
2. Cleve Moler Elected Next SIAM President ([Link]
1) Archived ([Link]
[Link]?id=171) 2015-01-17 at the Wayback Machine, News of SIAM, December 16, 2005
3. Math whiz stamps profound imprint on computing world ([Link]
albuquerque/stories/2009/02/02/[Link]) Archived ([Link]
5212902/[Link]
2009-02-05 at the Wayback Machine, New Mexico Business Weekly, January 30, 2009
4. SIAM Presidents [Link] Archived ([Link]
[Link]/web/20180103185924/[Link] 2018-01-03
at the Wayback Machine
5. "Doctor of Mathematics Honorary Degree Recipients" ([Link]
search-chairs/doctor-mathematics-honorary-degree-recipients). University of Waterloo.
Retrieved 2024-05-22.
6. "Fellows Program | SIAM" ([Link]
7. MATLAB Creator Cleve Moler Wins Computer Pioneer Award ([Link]
al/web/pressroom/MATLAB-Creator-Cleve-Moler-to-Receive-IEEE-Computer-Society-Pione
er-Award) Archived ([Link]
portal/web/pressroom/MATLAB-Creator-Cleve-Moler-to-Receive-IEEE-Computer-Society-Pi
oneer-Award) 2014-08-26 at the Wayback Machine, IEEE Computer Press Release, April
11, 2012
8. Recipients of the 2014 Medals and Awards ([Link]
recipients-of-the-2014-medals-and-awards) Archived ([Link]
000716/[Link]
awards) 2014-02-24 at the Wayback Machine, IEEE Computer Press Release, February 14,
2014
9. Spicer, Dag (2017-04-06). "2017 CHM Fellow Cleve Moler: Mozart of the Matrix" ([Link]
[Link]/atchm/cleve-moler-mozart-of-the-matrix/). Computer History Museum.
Archived ([Link]
m/cleve-moler-mozart-of-the-matrix/) from the original on 2017-08-08. Retrieved
2017-08-08.
10. Computer History Museum (2017-08-04). "Cleve Moler - 2017 CHM Fellow" ([Link]
[Link]/watch?v=42INGNd4XLs). YouTube. Archived ([Link]
104113528/[Link] from the original on 2018-01-
04. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
External links
MathWorks biography of Moler ([Link]
[Link])
Cleve Moler, Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 8 and 9 March, 2004, Santa Barbara,
California. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA ([Link]
[Link]/web/20071219033910/[Link] Lengthy
interview transcript covering Moler's entire career. Full text available online.
Cleve Moler ([Link] publications
indexed by Google Scholar
Cleve Moler ([Link] at the Mathematics Genealogy
Project
Publications by Cleve Moler ([Link] at
ResearchGate
Retrieved from "[Link]
