Starting in Release 2009a, str2func lets you create a handle to anonymous function. Before that, you need to construct an anonymous function from literal strings, or using... read more >>

Several of us at The MathWorks were recently discussing how we each use startup.m. Contents ... read more >>

Today I’d like to introduce a guest blogger, Jiro, who is an application engineer here at The MathWorks. Some of you may know him as one of the bloggers for the File Exchange Pick... read more >>

Quite a few MATLAB users that I meet these days want to know if The MathWorks has a toolbox for their precocious teenagers. Currently, there is not such product. However,... read more >>

Recently I posted about some "hidden" MathWorks swag in the LA area. Congratulations to Tony who posted some information on his find. He photographed the location. Today... read more >>

I recently attended the DSP Workshop sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. It focues on both signal processing and signal processing education. I spoke to a lot of the... read more >>

Have you ever gotten involved in geocaching? Have you ever wanted a MathWorks laser pointer / flashlight? You have a chance of combining both of these interests if you happen... read more >>

Today on the newsgroup, a user wanted help finding when values in a matrix matched some other values (see the post). There was already a solution posted when I was reading, but something... read more >>

Did you know that you can use tic and toc to measure times of operations that may have other timed operations nested inside? Contents ... read more >>

It's no secret that my background is in marine geophysics. Last week at the annual meeting of AGU (American Geophysical Union), I remembered seeing some very cool plots recently, some... read more >>