The backslash operator has come to represent both the matrix origins and the usability of MATLAB.... read more >>

By reaching 33.86 petaflops on the LINPACK Benchmark, China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer has just become the world's fastest computer. The technical computing community thinks of LINPACK not as a matrix software library, but as a benchmark. In that role LINPACK has some attractive aspects, but also some undesirable features.... read more >>

Nick Trefethen has framed the original flip chart that I described in my Lake Arrowhead Coauthor Graph blog earlier this week and has it on the wall of his office at Oxford University. His colleage Nick Hale has taken these photos. (The faded name in the cell at the lower left just northwest of mine is Tony Chan.)... read more >>

Twenty years ago, during the Householder Symposium at the Lake Arrowhead conference center , John Gilbert carried out one of the world's first computational social network analyses.... read more >>

In my previous blog post I reprinted the Cleve's Corner article from the 1995 issues of MATLAB News and Notes and SIAM News about the Pentium division bug. In today's post I would like to describe some of the effects that affair had on the emerging Internet, the MathWorks, and the Intel Corporation,... read more >>

The Pentium division bug episode in the fall of 1994 was a defining moment for the MathWorks, for the Internet, for Intel Corporation, and for me personally. In this blog I am reprinting the article that I wrote for the Winter 1995 issue of MATLAB News and Notes and for SIAM News. In my next blog I want to discuss the episode's impact.... read more >>

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This blog is about a film that I made in 1976. Here is the link to a digital copy on YouTube: http://youtu.be/R9UoFyqJca8.... read more >>

The first MATLAB trade show booth at the CDC in December, 1984, included a potted palm.... read more >>