Grant Cook III, who goes by the community handle goc3, is one of our top players on Cody. He’s also one of our most prolific problem authors, having created 109 different problems. In fact, you… read more >>

I want to acknowledge a superhuman feat of skill, dedication, and generosity. Walter Roberson has surpassed 50,000 reputation points on MATLAB Answers. That equates to almost 28,000 answers… read more >>

Our next interview in the MATLAB Central 15th Anniversary series is with John D’Errico.  He is a Community All-Star who actively participates on File Exchange and MATLAB Answers.  He has been using… read more >>

I see that Guy has already mentioned this over on his blog, but it’s a cool community activity, so I want to call it out here too.
The Simulink Student Challenge is designed to reward cool… read more >>

We will be celebrating the 15th Anniversary of MATLAB Central through October.  Our second interview in our 15 Questions series is with Grant Cook III.

Grant works for Halliburton and has been… read more >>

I am John Kelly, the Administrator of MATLAB Central.  As part of the MATLAB Central 15^th Anniversary Celebration we thought it would be interesting to have a series of interviews with key contributors to MATLAB Central.  Naturally we thought 15 questions seemed appropriate.

Our first interview is with Chad Greene.… read more >>

You’re part of a long tradition.

Communities don’t blossom in one night. MATLAB’s rich community has been growing steadily for many years, and today I want to give you an idea of just how long. I bet it’s longer than you think!… read more >>

MATLAB Central launched 15 years ago, in the fall of 2001, and it’s been growing fast ever since. I’ve had a front row seat for the entire show, and it’s been great fun. I’m… read more >>

Let me start with a graphical riddle. In what sense is the following equivalence true?

To learn the answer, read on!
I recently came across Nick Higham’s fun post on one-liners in MATLAB. That… read more >>

Collaboration on software can be a lot of fun, but it can also be hard to motivate.

For instance, you may be working on a project and you’d love some help, but you can’t get anyone else excited about your Interactive Polhode-Herpolhode Animator. Alternatively, you may be willing to help with somebody else’s project, but how do you find something that’s interesting to you and simultaneously needs and wants your help? Because if you’re going to spend time hacking code, you want to make sure somebody actually cares.… read more >>