{"id":11437,"date":"2024-08-31T17:44:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T21:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/?p=11437"},"modified":"2024-10-02T17:05:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:05:56","slug":"na_digest-and-na_net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/2024\/08\/31\/na_digest-and-na_net\/","title":{"rendered":"NA_Digest and NA_Net"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"content\"><!--introduction-->\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netlib.org\/na-digest-html\/\" target=\"_blank\">NA-Digest<\/a> is an electronic newsletter for the numerical analysis and scientific software community. The NA-Digest is one of world's first examples of social networking. The Digest is one of the forces that makes our community a living, viable community.<\/p>\n<p>The Digest is part of NA-Net, which also includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netlib.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Netlib<\/a>, a collection of mathematical software, papers, and databases.<\/p>\n<p>For its first forty years, the NA-Digest has had only four editors. Now, we are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netlib.org\/na-digest-html\/24\/v24n11.html\" target=\"_blank\">adding two more<\/a>. As we do that, I would like to take a personal look back at the history of the NA-Digest.<\/p>\n<!--\/introduction-->\n<h3>Contents<\/h3>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"#47981f51-c2a4-4c0d-85b0-610302fd5ac0\">Gene and Mark<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"#ed8c0b94-c933-4ebb-a4bf-a384a64da3ab\">Jack and Eric<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"#6f61deeb-e369-459f-8bea-c0bb4824122b\">Tammy and Danny<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"#23543d62-17d1-45a8-9864-e1234a399bee\">David and Alex<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"#4ca470da-0f47-41ea-bc35-50ae58c673d0\">Archive<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"#44bcd2d2-460a-42ba-9b46-f0ef1e2a2fc7\">Members<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"#a403c351-bd27-40f2-94e5-284fd018bc12\">Important Postings<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"#083efbec-ada1-44f6-bd40-234ee138fca0\">Thanks<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"#572e6cd1-76bf-4bff-baa9-8d311a60b335\">References<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Gene and Mark<a name=\"47981f51-c2a4-4c0d-85b0-610302fd5ac0\"><\/a>\n<\/h4>\n<p>Like many other developments in the numerical analysis world, the Digest began with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gene_H._Golub\" target=\"_blank\">Gene Golub<\/a>. In the early 1980's, Golub was chair of Stanford's Computer Science Department. Email was a new thing and Gene maintained a list of email addresses for his many friends around the world. Email addresses came in many different formats; today's system of domain names was not yet in wide spread use.<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, Mark Kent, one of Gene's grad students, with help from Ray Tuminaro, Mark Crispin and Dan Kolkowitz, wrote software that used Gene's list in an email forwarding service. Mail sent to<\/p>\n<p>\n<tt>na.<\/tt><i>name<\/i><tt>@su-score<\/tt>\n<\/p>\n<p>would be forwarded to the person with that last name. And email sent to<\/p>\n<p>\n<tt>na@su-score<\/tt>\n<\/p>\n<p>would be forwarded to everyone on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Gene and Mark Kent began to gather contributions together and send the collection out periodically. By February 1987, this had evolved into a moderated weekly newsletter. Gene dubbed these email services the <i>NA-Net<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Trefethen has this memory.<\/p>\n<pre>  Early in the days of email, domain names were all over the place.\n  I think there was a period when Gene was using xxx.na for the\n  names of numerical analysts.  Then somebody decided addresses should\n  end with the country, giving us .uk and .fr and .ch and all\n  that.  For a period, we found that a lot of our numerical\n  analysis emails were being directed to Namibia!<\/pre>\n<p>In 1987, Gene asked me to moderate NA-Digest temporarily while he went on a sabbatical. That temporary position ultimately lasted 18 years, until 2005.<\/p>\n<h4>Jack and Eric<a name=\"ed8c0b94-c933-4ebb-a4bf-a384a64da3ab\"><\/a>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/history.siam.org\/oralhistories\/dongarra.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Dongarra<\/a> began his career at Argonne National Laboratory. Jack's colleague, Eric Grosse, began his career at Bell Labs. In 1984, Jack and Eric created Netlib, a software repository and distribution service, and merged it with NA-Net. In 1989, Jack and the NA-Net system moved from Argonne to Oak Ridge National Lab and the University of Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Moore, at the University of Tennessee, rewrote the NA-Net software and maintained the servers for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Gerald Ragghianti, the Technical Services Leader at Tennessee's Innovative Computer Lab, currently maintains the NA-Net software and servers.<\/p>\n<h4>Tammy and Danny<a name=\"6f61deeb-e369-459f-8bea-c0bb4824122b\"><\/a>\n<\/h4>\n<p>In 2005, I asked Tammy Kolda, who was then at Sandia Labs in Livermore, to be the NA-Digest editor. Tammy's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=tamara+kolda\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia page<\/a> reveals that her given name is \"Tamara\", but everybody calls her \"Tammy\". She left Sandia is 2021 and now has her own consulting company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsci.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">MathSci.ai<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Tammy recommended that Danny Dunlavy, from Sandia Labs in Albuquerque, take over as editor. He has been the editor for 14 years. Danny's day job at Sandia's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandia.gov\/ccr\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Computing Research<\/a> involves a wide range of fields including computer architecture, cognitive modeling and discrete mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/files\/OldEditors.png\" alt=\"\"> <\/p>\n<h4>David and Alex<a name=\"23543d62-17d1-45a8-9864-e1234a399bee\"><\/a>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/files\/NewEditors.png\" alt=\"\"> <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netlib.org\/na-digest-html\/24\/v24n11.html\" target=\"_blank\">Starting next week<\/a>, NA-Digest and NA-Net will move <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lock,_stock,_and_barrel\" target=\"_blank\">lock, stock, and barrel<\/a> to Cornell University. The new editors are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.cornell.edu\/~bindel\/bio\" target=\"_blank\">David Bindell<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pi.math.cornell.edu\/~ajt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Townsend<\/a>. Cornell's IT organization will be taking over the logistics.<\/p>\n<p>David, Alex and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.cornell.edu\/~damle\/#About\" target=\"_blank\">Anil Damle<\/a> are also the hosts for <a href=\"https:\/\/householder-symposium.github.io\">Householder XXII<\/a>, June 8-13, 2025.<\/p>\n<h4>Archive<a name=\"4ca470da-0f47-41ea-bc35-50ae58c673d0\"><\/a>\n<\/h4>\n<p>Every issue of NA-Digest since February 1987 is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netlib.org\/na-digest-html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.netlib.org\/na-digest-html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Members<a name=\"44bcd2d2-460a-42ba-9b46-f0ef1e2a2fc7\"><\/a>\n<\/h4>\n<p>When I succeeded Gene as editor in 1987, there were about 800 names on the NA-Net mailing list. Today, in 2024, there are a little over 10,000. Discontinuities in the size of the list result when unused and illegitimate names are removed.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/files\/NA_Digs.png\" alt=\"\"> <\/p>\n<h4>Important Postings<a name=\"a403c351-bd27-40f2-94e5-284fd018bc12\"><\/a>\n<\/h4>\n<p>I have made three personally important announcements in the Digest over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>October 29, 1989<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>In 1989 I was working at <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/2013\/11\/25\/the-ardent-titan-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ardent Computer<\/a>, a startup in Silicon Valley. I announced in NA-Digest that MathWorks was looking for a numerical analyst. (Note the MathWorks telephone number near the end of this announcement.)<\/p>\n<pre>  From: Cleve Moler &lt;na.moler@na-net.stanford.edu&gt;\n  Date: Sun Oct 29 10:39:38 PST 1989\n  Subject: Positions at The MathWorks<\/pre>\n<pre>  The MathWorks is the company which develops and markets MATLAB.\n  The company currently employs about 30 people and expects to\n  add three or four more soon. The company headquarters is in\n  East Natick, Massachusetts, which is about a half hour drive\n  west of Boston.<\/pre>\n<pre>  The background and interests expected for the various positions\n  available range from numerical linear algebra and matrix computation\n  to systems programming and graphics. Educational level and\n  experience expected range from inexperienced beginner willing\n  to learn to seasoned Ph.D. with a personal library of M-files.<\/pre>\n<pre>  For more information, send email to na.moler@na-net.stanford.edu\n  or phone me at 408-732-0400. Or, contact the MathWorks' president,\n  John Little, with email to jnl@mathworks.com, phone 508-653-1415,\n  or write to:<\/pre>\n<pre>  The MathWorks\n  21 Eliot Street\n  South Natick, MA 01760<\/pre>\n<p>\n<b>November 26, 1989<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after that announcement, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stardent_Inc.\" target=\"_blank\">Ardent imploded<\/a> and I said that I was taking the job myself.<\/p>\n<pre>  From: Cleve Moler &lt;moler@mathworks.com&gt;\n  Date: Sun Nov 26 09:16:32 PST 1989\n  Subject: Change of Address for Moler<\/pre>\n<pre>  A couple of weeks ago, I made an announcement here that\n  The MathWorks, the MATLAB company, was looking to fill several\n  positions, including one for a numerical analyst. Now, I've\n  decided to take that slot myself. I'm one of the founders of\n  MathWorks, and have always been a consultant to the company, but\n  now I'll be a full time employee. For a while at least, I'll\n  be working out of my home in California, even though MathWorks\n  headquarters is in Massachusetts. (There are already a couple\n  of other MathWorks developers in the Bay Area.)\n  . . .\n  My electronic address is \"moler@mathworks.com\". If your mailer\n  can't find the route via uunet to mathworks.com, you can still\n  use \"na.moler@na-net.stanford.edu\".<\/pre>\n<p>\n<b>November 16, 2007<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>In November 2007 I was attending the Super Computing conference in Reno. I had rented a car and intended to drive to the Bay Area after the conference. But my wife called me and said, \"Hey Cleve, have you heard that Gene is in the hospital?\" I left SC immediately and drove to Palo Alto. Two days later we sent out a special issue of the Digest:<\/p>\n<pre>  From: Cleve Moler &lt;Cleve.Moler@mathworks.com&gt;\n  Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:55:42 -0500\n  Subject: Gene Golub, 1932 - 2007<\/pre>\n<pre>  Gene Golub, founder of the NA Digest, passed away today, Friday, November 16,\n  at the Stanford University Hospital. He was 75 years old.<\/pre>\n<pre>  Gene returned home to Stanford recently from a trip to Hong Kong. He was\n  planning to leave again Tuesday on another trip, this one to Zurich where the\n  ETH was to honor him with a special degree. Instead, Sunday night he went to\n  the emergency room because he was \"feeling lousy\". On Tuesday, he was found\n  to have AML, acute myelogenous leukemia, a form of cancer that affects the\n  white blood cells. This is a potentially curable disease and he was expecting\n  to begin chemotherapy today. But serious complications developed suddenly\n  over night.<\/pre>\n<pre>  I was able to see Gene for an hour last night and he was in reasonably good\n  spirits. Mike Saunders was trying to get Gene's laptop to use dial-up over\n  the hospital's phone system because Gene said he was a couple of days behind\n  on his email. I was planning to get a wireless card for his machine today.\n  None of us had any idea how suddenly the situation would worsen.<\/pre>\n<pre>  The Stanford ICME students have created a memorial blog at\n  http:\/\/genehgolub.blogspot.com .<\/pre>\n<pre>  Our community has lost its foremost member. He was a valued colleague and\n  friend. Goodbye, Gene.<\/pre>\n<pre>  -- Cleve Moler<\/pre>\n<h4>Thanks<a name=\"083efbec-ada1-44f6-bd40-234ee138fca0\"><\/a>\n<\/h4>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Gene Golub and Mark Kent for creating NA-Digest and NA-Net.<\/li>\n<li>Tammy Kolda and Danny Dunlavy for editing the Digest for two decades.<\/li>\n<li>Jack Dongarra, Eric Grosse, Keith Moore and Geri Ragghianti for creating Netlib and for hosting the system for four decades.<\/li>\n<li>David Bindel and Alex Townsend for joining this team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h4>References<a name=\"572e6cd1-76bf-4bff-baa9-8d311a60b335\"><\/a>\n<\/h4>\n<p>Jack Dongarra, Gene Golub, Eric Grosse, Cleve Moler and Keith Moore. \"Netlib and NA-Net: Building a Scientific Computing Community\", <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/4544554\" target=\"_blank\"><i>IEEE Annals of the History of Computing<\/i><\/a>, (Volume: 30, Issue: 2, April-June 2008). <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/files\/icl-utk-351-2008.pdf\">A PDF is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Kent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.research-collection.ethz.ch\/handle\/20.500.11850\/68968\" target=\"_blank\">The Numerical Analysis Net (NA-NET)<\/a>, Technical Report 85, ETH Zurich, Institut fuer Informatik, 1988.<\/p>\n<script language=\"JavaScript\"> <!-- \n    function grabCode_0f2731eb32f24b35861a61b1d8fe3704() {\n        \/\/ Remember the title so we can use it in the new page\n        title = document.title;\n\n        \/\/ Break up these strings so that their presence\n        \/\/ in the Javascript doesn't mess up the search for\n        \/\/ the MATLAB code.\n        t1='0f2731eb32f24b35861a61b1d8fe3704 ' + '##### ' + 'SOURCE BEGIN' + ' #####';\n        t2='##### ' + 'SOURCE END' + ' #####' + ' 0f2731eb32f24b35861a61b1d8fe3704';\n    \n        b=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];\n        i1=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t1)+t1.length;\n        i2=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t2);\n \n        code_string = b.innerHTML.substring(i1, i2);\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/REPLACE_WITH_DASH_DASH\/g,'--');\n\n        \/\/ Use \/x3C\/g instead of the less-than character to avoid errors \n        \/\/ in the XML parser.\n        \/\/ Use '\\x26#60;' instead of '<' so that the XML parser\n        \/\/ doesn't go ahead and substitute the less-than character. \n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/\\x3C\/g, '\\x26#60;');\n\n        copyright = 'Copyright 2024 The MathWorks, Inc.';\n\n        w = window.open();\n        d = w.document;\n        d.write('<pre>\\n');\n        d.write(code_string);\n\n        \/\/ Add copyright line at the bottom if specified.\n        if (copyright.length > 0) {\n            d.writeln('');\n            d.writeln('%%');\n            if (copyright.length > 0) {\n                d.writeln('% _' + copyright + '_');\n            }\n        }\n\n        d.write('<\/pre>\\n');\n\n        d.title = title + ' (MATLAB code)';\n        d.close();\n    }   \n     --> <\/script>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: xx-small; font-weight:lighter;   font-style: italic; color: gray\">\n<br>\n<a href=\"javascript:grabCode_0f2731eb32f24b35861a61b1d8fe3704()\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;        font-style: italic;\">Get \n      the MATLAB code <noscript>(requires JavaScript)<\/noscript>\n<\/span><\/a>\n<br>\n<br>\n      Published with MATLAB&reg; R2024a<br>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!--\n0f2731eb32f24b35861a61b1d8fe3704 ##### SOURCE BEGIN #####\n%% NA_Digest and NA_Net\n% The <https:\/\/www.netlib.org\/na-digest-html\/  NA-Digest>\n% is an electronic newsletter for the numerical analysis and\n% scientific software community.\n% The NA-Digest is one of world's first examples of social networking.\n% The Digest is one of the forces that makes our community\n% a living, viable community.\n%\n% The Digest is part of NA-Net, which also includes \n% <https:\/\/www.netlib.org\/ Netlib>, a collection of mathematical software,\n% papers, and databases.\n%\n% For its first forty years, the NA-Digest has had only four editors.\n% Now, we are\n% <https:\/\/www.netlib.org\/na-digest-html\/24\/v24n11.html\n% adding two more>.\n% As we do that, I would like to take a personal look back at the\n% history of the NA-Digest.\n\n%% Gene and Mark\n% Like many other developments in the numerical analysis world,\n% the Digest began with <https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gene_H._Golub\n% Gene Golub>. 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By February 1987, this\n% had evolved into a moderated weekly newsletter.\n% Gene dubbed these email services the _NA-Net_.\n%\n% Nick Trefethen has this memory.\n%\n%    Early in the days of email, domain names were all over the place.\n%    I think there was a period when Gene was using xxx.na for the\n%    names of numerical analysts.  Then somebody decided addresses should\n%    end with the country, giving us .uk and .fr and .ch and all\n%    that.  For a period, we found that a lot of our numerical \n%    analysis emails were being directed to Namibia!\n%\n% In 1987, Gene asked me to moderate NA-Digest temporarily while he\n% went on a sabbatical.  That temporary position ultimately\n% lasted 18 years, until 2005.\n%\n\n%% Jack and Eric\n% <https:\/\/history.siam.org\/oralhistories\/dongarra.htm Jack Dongarra>\n% began his career at Argonne National Laboratory. Jack's colleague,\n% Eric Grosse, began his career at Bell Labs.\n% In 1984, Jack and Eric created Netlib, a software repository and\n% distribution service, and merged it with NA-Net.\n% In 1989, Jack and the NA-Net system moved from Argonne to \n% Oak Ridge National Lab and the University of Tennessee.\n%\n% Keith Moore, at the University of Tennessee,\n% rewrote the NA-Net software and maintained the servers for many years.\n%\n% Gerald Ragghianti, the Technical Services Leader at\n% Tennessee's Innovative Computer Lab, currently maintains the NA-Net\n% software and servers.\n\n%% Tammy and Danny\n% In 2005, I asked Tammy Kolda, who was then at Sandia Labs\n% in Livermore, to be the NA-Digest editor.\n% Tammy's <https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=tamara+kolda Wikipedia page>\n% reveals that her given name is \"Tamara\", but everybody calls her \"Tammy\".  \n% She left Sandia is 2021 and now has her own consulting company,\n% <https:\/\/www.mathsci.ai\/ MathSci.ai>. \n% \n% In 2010, Tammy recommended that Danny Dunlavy, from Sandia Labs in \n% Albuquerque, take over as editor.  He has been the editor for 14 years.\n% Danny's day job at Sandia's\n% <https:\/\/www.sandia.gov\/ccr Center for Computing Research>\n% involves a wide range of fields including computer architecture,\n% cognitive modeling and discrete mathematics.\n%\n% <<OldEditors.png>>\n%\n\n%% David and Alex\n%\n% <<NewEditors.png>>\n%\n% <https:\/\/www.netlib.org\/na-digest-html\/24\/v24n11.html\n% Starting next week>, NA-Digest and NA-Net will move\n% <https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lock,_stock,_and_barrel\n% lock, stock, and barrel> to Cornell University.\n% The new editors are\n% <https:\/\/www.cs.cornell.edu\/~bindel\/bio David Bindell>\n% and\n% <https:\/\/pi.math.cornell.edu\/~ajt\/ Alex Townsend>.\n% Cornell's IT organization will be taking over the logistics.\n%\n% David, Alex and <https:\/\/www.cs.cornell.edu\/~damle\/#About Anil Damle>\n% are also the hosts for \n% <https:\/\/householder-symposium.github.io Householder XXII>,\n% June 8-13, 2025.\n\n%% Archive\n% Every issue of NA-Digest since February 1987\n% is available at\n% <https:\/\/www.netlib.org\/na-digest-html>.\n\n%% Members\n% When I succeeded Gene as editor in 1987, there were about 800 names\n% on the NA-Net mailing list.  Today, in 2024, there are a little\n% over 10,000.\n% Discontinuities in the size of the list result when\n% unused and illegitimate names are removed.\n%\n% <<NA_Digs.png>>\n\n%% Important Postings\n% I have made three personally important announcements in the Digest over\n% the years. \n%\n% *October 29, 1989*\n%\n% In 1989 I was working at\n% <https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/2013\/11\/25\/the-ardent-titan-part-1\/\n% Ardent Computer>, a startup in Silicon Valley.\n% I announced in NA-Digest that MathWorks was looking for a numerical\n% analyst. (Note the MathWorks telephone number near the end of this\n% announcement.)\n%\n%    From: Cleve Moler <na.moler@na-net.stanford.edu>\n%    Date: Sun Oct 29 10:39:38 PST 1989\n%    Subject: Positions at The MathWorks\n%   \n%    The MathWorks is the company which develops and markets MATLAB.\n%    The company currently employs about 30 people and expects to\n%    add three or four more soon. The company headquarters is in\n%    East Natick, Massachusetts, which is about a half hour drive\n%    west of Boston.\n%   \n%    The background and interests expected for the various positions\n%    available range from numerical linear algebra and matrix computation\n%    to systems programming and graphics. Educational level and\n%    experience expected range from inexperienced beginner willing\n%    to learn to seasoned Ph.D. with a personal library of M-files.\n%\n%    For more information, send email to na.moler@na-net.stanford.edu\n%    or phone me at 408-732-0400. Or, contact the MathWorks' president,\n%    John Little, with email to jnl@mathworks.com, phone 508-653-1415,\n%    or write to:\n%\n%    The MathWorks\n%    21 Eliot Street\n%    South Natick, MA 01760\n%\n% *November 26, 1989*\n%\n% Shortly after that announcement, \n% <https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stardent_Inc. Ardent imploded>\n% and I said that I was taking the job myself.\n%\n%    From: Cleve Moler <moler@mathworks.com>\n%    Date: Sun Nov 26 09:16:32 PST 1989\n%    Subject: Change of Address for Moler\n%    \n%    A couple of weeks ago, I made an announcement here that\n%    The MathWorks, the MATLAB company, was looking to fill several\n%    positions, including one for a numerical analyst. Now, I've\n%    decided to take that slot myself. I'm one of the founders of\n%    MathWorks, and have always been a consultant to the company, but\n%    now I'll be a full time employee. For a while at least, I'll    \n%    be working out of my home in California, even though MathWorks\n%    headquarters is in Massachusetts. (There are already a couple\n%    of other MathWorks developers in the Bay Area.)\n%    . . .\n%    My electronic address is \"moler@mathworks.com\". If your mailer\n%    can't find the route via uunet to mathworks.com, you can still\n%    use \"na.moler@na-net.stanford.edu\".\n%\n% *November 16, 2007*\n%\n% In November 2007 I was attending the Super Computing conference in\n% Reno.  I had rented a car and intended to drive to the Bay Area\n% after the conference.  But my wife called me and said,\n% \"Hey Cleve, have you heard that Gene is in the hospital?\"\n% I left SC immediately and drove to Palo Alto.  Two days later\n% we sent out a special issue of the Digest:\n%\n%    From: Cleve Moler <Cleve.Moler@mathworks.com>\n%    Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:55:42 -0500\n%    Subject: Gene Golub, 1932 - 2007\n%    \n%    Gene Golub, founder of the NA Digest, passed away today, Friday, November 16,\n%    at the Stanford University Hospital. He was 75 years old.\n%    \n%    Gene returned home to Stanford recently from a trip to Hong Kong. He was\n%    planning to leave again Tuesday on another trip, this one to Zurich where the\n%    ETH was to honor him with a special degree. Instead, Sunday night he went to\n%    the emergency room because he was \"feeling lousy\". On Tuesday, he was found\n%    to have AML, acute myelogenous leukemia, a form of cancer that affects the\n%    white blood cells. This is a potentially curable disease and he was expecting\n%    to begin chemotherapy today. But serious complications developed suddenly\n%    over night.\n%    \n%    I was able to see Gene for an hour last night and he was in reasonably good\n%    spirits. Mike Saunders was trying to get Gene's laptop to use dial-up over\n%    the hospital's phone system because Gene said he was a couple of days behind\n%    on his email. I was planning to get a wireless card for his machine today.\n%    None of us had any idea how suddenly the situation would worsen.\n%    \n%    The Stanford ICME students have created a memorial blog at\n%    http:\/\/genehgolub.blogspot.com .\n%    \n%    Our community has lost its foremost member. He was a valued colleague and\n%    friend. Goodbye, Gene.\n%    \n%    REPLACE_WITH_DASH_DASH Cleve Moler\n\n%% Thanks\n%\n% * Gene Golub and Mark Kent for creating NA-Digest and NA-Net.\n% * Tammy Kolda and Danny Dunlavy for editing the Digest for two decades.\n% * Jack Dongarra, Eric Grosse, Keith Moore and Geri Ragghianti for\n% creating Netlib and for hosting the system for four decades.\n% * David Bindel and Alex Townsend for joining this team.\n\n%% References\n%\n% Jack Dongarra, Gene Golub, Eric Grosse, Cleve Moler and Keith Moore.\n% \"Netlib and NA-Net: Building a Scientific Computing Community\",\n% <https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/4544554\n% _IEEE Annals of the History of Computing_>,\n% (Volume: 30, Issue: 2, April-June 2008).\n% <https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/files\/icl-utk-351-2008.pdf\n% A PDF is available here>.\n%\n% Mark Kent,\n% <https:\/\/www.research-collection.ethz.ch\/handle\/20.500.11850\/68968\n% The Numerical Analysis Net (NA-NET)>, Technical Report 85, ETH\n% Zurich, Institut fuer Informatik, 1988.\n\n##### SOURCE END ##### 0f2731eb32f24b35861a61b1d8fe3704\n-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/files\/NA_Digs-2.png\" class=\"img-responsive attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div><!--introduction-->\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netlib.org\/na-digest-html\/\" target=\"_blank\">NA-Digest<\/a> is an electronic newsletter for the numerical analysis and scientific software community. 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