MATLAB Central, including the MATLAB Central File Exchange, received a significant upgrade last month. With the File Exchange, you have many more ways to find and get notified about files that may... read more >>

On Leap Day, 2008, I posted about how to time code in MATLAB, and I gave a link to a timing utility function called timeit that I submitted to the MATLAB Central File Exchange. If you use... read more >>

The MathWorks is running a broad MATLAB user survey, asking general questions about product usage and workflows. I hope some of my blog readers will consider taking a few minutes to respond... read more >>

The MathWorks updates its product line twice per year on a regular schedule. Early last month we shipped our second release of the year, R2008b. My fellow bloggers have already been... read more >>

Are you a scientist user of MATLAB? My friend Greg Wilson of the University of Toronto just sent me notice of a survey you might be interested in: Computers are as important to modern... read more >>

Did you know that MathWorks publishes information about product bugs on its web site? And that you can be automatically notified with updates regarding specific bugs, or regarding specific... read more >>

Do you read any of the other MATLAB Central blogs? There's a lot of good information on them. For several years, the "Pick of the Week" blog has regularly highlighted the best contributions... read more >>

Today's post is brought to you directly from the software developer half of my brain. MATLAB 6 was the first version to use the FFTW library for fast Fourier transform computations, and I... read more >>

My blog has a rule, which I just now made up, that my second post during the month of September has to be totally off topic. So you've been warned! OK, you're still reading, so I... read more >>

Transparent graphics objects can be used effectively to visualize image processing concepts. Two particularly useful techniques are: Highlighting image... read more >>