Cleve Moler

Updated: 12/30/2019 by Computer Hope
Cleve Moler

Name: Cleve Moler

Born: August 17, 1939

Computer-related contributions

  • American computer programmer and mathematician.
  • Inventor of MATLAB, a numerical computing package.
  • Chairman and chief scientist at MathWorks.
  • Specialist in numerical analysis.
  • One of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing in the 1970s.

Significant publications

  • Numerical Computing with MATLAB (2008).
  • Experiments in Computational Matrix Algebra (1988).
  • Computer methods for mathematical computations (1977).

Honors and awards

  • Recipient of the IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2014).
  • Named recipient of the Computer Pioneer Award by the IEEE Computer Society (2012).
  • Appointed Honorary Doctor at the Technical University of Denmark (2012).
  • Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (1997).

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