Name Cleve Moler | Role Mathematician Full Name Cleve Barry Moler | |
Born August 17, 1939 (age 84) ( 1939-08-17 ) Institutions University of MichiganStanford UniversityUniversity of WaterlooUniversity of New Mexico Alma mater California Institute of TechnologyStanford University Doctoral students Jack DongarraStanley EisenstatCharles F. Van Loan Books Numerical Computing with MATLAB People also search for George Forsythe, John N. Little, Jack Dongarra | ||
Cleve moler receives 2012 computer pioneer award
Cleve Barry Moler is an American mathematician and computer programmer 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 invented 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 commercialize this program.
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He received his bachelor's degree from California Institute of Technology in 1961, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, both in mathematics.
He was a professor of mathematics and computer science for almost 20 years at the University of Michigan, Stanford University, and the University of New Mexico. Before joining MathWorks full-time in 1989, he also worked for Intel Hypercube, where he coined the term "embarrassingly parallel", and Ardent Computer Corporation. He is also co-author of four textbooks on numerical methods and is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery. He was president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2007-2008.
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering on February 14, 1997. He received an honorary degree from Linköping University, Sweden. He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo on June 16, 2001. On April 30, 2004, he was appointed Honorary Doctor (doctor technices, honoris causa) at the Technical University of Denmark. In April 2012, the IEEE Computer Society named Cleve the recipient of the 2012 Computer Pioneer Award. In February 2014, IEEE named Cleve the recipient of the 2014 IEEE John von Neumann Medal. In April 2017, he was made Fellow of the Computer History Museum.