Cleve Moler

Cleve Barry Moler
Cleve Moler, chairman, and cofounder of MathWorks
Born	(1939-08-17) August 17, 1939 (age 85)
Education	California Institute of Technology (BS) Stanford University (PhD)
Known for	MATLAB
Awards	Computer Pioneer Award (2012) IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2014)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, Computer science
Institutions	University of Michigan Stanford University University of New Mexico
Thesis	Finite difference methods for the eigenvalues of Laplace's operator (1965)
Doctoral advisor	George Forsythe
Doctoral students	Jack Dongarra Charles F. Van Loan

Cleve Barry Moler (born August 17, 1939) 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 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 commercialize this program.^[1]