The Intel Hypercube, part 2See The Intel Hypercube, part 2, repostedGet the MATLAB code (requires JavaScript) Published with MATLAB® R2013b Published with MATLAB®... read more >>

Even though I am one of the founders of the MathWorks, I only acted as an advisor to the company for its first five years. During that time, from 1985 to 1989, I was trying my luck with two Silicon Valley computer startup companies. Both enterprises failed as businesses, but the experience taught me a great deal about the computer industry, and influenced how I viewed the eventual development of MATLAB. The first of these startups developed the Intel Hypercube.... read more >>

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

An option in eigshow demonstrates SVD, the matrix singular value decomposition. The emphasis is on orthogonality.... read more >>

Three more examples with eigshow, all of them degenerate in some way or another.... read more >>

One of my all-time favorite MATLAB examples is eigshow.... read more >>

One of Jim Wilkinson's outstanding skills was his ability to pick great examples. A previous post featured his signature polynomial. This post features his signature matrices.... read more >>

The inverse Hilbert matrix, invhilb, has recently made surprise appearances in Cody, the programming game on MATLAB Central, and one of Ned's posts in the MATLAB Spoken Here blog. Inverse Hilbert matrices had nearly been forgotten in MATLAB. Their comeback is due to the sign pattern of their entries. But I want to take you back to their original role demonstrating ill conditioning in numerical calculation.... read more >>

The Game of Life. A few more of my favorite populations.... read more >>

The Game of Life, including the infinitely expanding universe, is a gorgeous application of MATLAB sparse matrices.... read more >>