Cleve Moler

Cleve Barry Moler 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 Born August 17, 1939
invented MATLAB, a numerical computing package, to give his students at the Alma mater California Institute of
University of New Mexico easy access to these libraries without writing Fortran. In Technology
1984, he co-founded MathWorks with Jack Little to commercialize this program. Stanford University
Known for MATLAB
He received his bachelor's degree from California Institute of Technology in 1961,
and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, both in mathematics.[1] He worked for Awards Computer Pioneer
Charles Lawson at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1961 and 1962. Award (2012)
IEEE John von
He was a professor of mathematics and computer science for almost 20 years at the Neumann Medal
University of Michigan, Stanford University, and the University of New Mexico.[2] (2014)
Before joining MathWorks full-time in 1989, he also worked for Intel Hypercube,
Scientific career
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 Fields Mathematics,
member of the Association for Computing Machinery. He was president of the Computer science
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics2007-2008.[3] Institutions University of Michigan
Stanford University
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering on February 14, 1997. He
University of Waterloo
received an honorary degree from Linköping University, Sweden. He received an
University of New
honorary degree of Doctor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo on June
Mexico
16, 2001. On April 30, 2004, he was appointed Honorary Doctor (doctor technices,
Doctoral George Forsythe
honoris causa) at the Technical University of Denmark. In April 2012, the IEEE
advisor
Computer Society named Cleve the recipient of the 2012 Computer Pioneer
Award.[4] In February 2014, IEEE named Cleve the recipient of the 2014 IEEE John Doctoral Jack Dongarra
von Neumann Medal.[5] In April 2017, he was made Fellow of the Computer students Charles F. Van Loan
History Museum.[6][7]

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 ISBN 0-13-
165332-6
Moler, Cleve B., "Numerical Computing with MATLAB", Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , 2004,
ISBN 978-0-89871-560-6

References
1. Cleve Moler Elected Next SIAM President(http://www.siam.org/about/news-siam.php?id=171), News of SIAM,
December 16, 2005
2. Math whiz stamps profound imprint on computing world(http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/200
9/02/02/story9.html), New Mexico Business Weekly, January 30, 2009
3. SIAM Presidents http://www.siam.org/about/more/presidents.php
 4. MATLAB Creator Cleve Moler Wins Computer Pioneer Award (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/pressroom/MATL
AB-Creator-Cleve-Moler-to-Receive-IEEE-Computer-Society-Pioneer-Award), IEEE Computer Press Release, April
11, 2012
5. Recipients of the 2014 Medals and Awards (http://theinstitute.ieee.org/people/achievements/recipients-of-the-2014-
medals-and-awards) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20140224000716/http://theinstitute.ieee.org/people/achie
vements/recipients-of-the-2014-medals-and-awards)2014-02-24 at the Wayback Machine., IEEE Computer Press
Release, February 14, 2014
6. Spicer, Dag (2017-04-06). "2017 CHM Fellow Cleve Moler: Mozart of the Matrix"(http://www.computerhistory.org/atc
hm/cleve-moler-mozart-of-the-matrix/). Computer History Museum. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
7. Computer History Museum (2017-08-04)."Cleve Moler - 2017 CHM Fellow"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42I
NGNd4XLs). YouTube. Retrieved 2017-08-08.

External links
MathWorks biography of Moler
Cleve Moler, Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 8 and 9 March, 2004, Santa Barbara, California. Society for
Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, P
A Lengthy interview transcript covering Moler's entire career
. Full
text available online.
Cleve Moler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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