{"id":1062,"date":"2014-06-03T12:12:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2014-06-03T12:18:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:18:50","slug":"matlab-code-in-an-unexpected-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/2014\/06\/03\/matlab-code-in-an-unexpected-place\/","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB code in an unexpected place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/MATLAB-on-The-Americans.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/MATLAB-on-The-Americans-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"MATLAB on The Americans\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1063\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nThe TV show \"The Americans\" is a show about Soviet Union secret agents pretending to be a normal American couple in 1981-82 or so. In the 2nd season's final episode, which I watched last night, a military officer shows an FBI agent a computer screen that's supposed to be showing some code from a top-secret computer program called Echo. (Don't worry; this is not a significant spoiler.) When the code flashed by I thought it looked odd, more modern than I would have expected for an early 80s program. So I paused the show and took a closer look. I was very amused to see that the top half of the screen contains MATLAB code of a type that did not exist until about 20 years after the show's time period. \r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nThe MATLAB code was clearly generated using GUIDE, the MATLAB GUI Design Environment. (Click on the thumbnail above for an enlarged view in which the code is readable.)\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nWhen I showed this to my MathWorker friend Jason, he did a little investigating and discovered the code's origin. It's from an 11-year-old File Exchange contribution called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/3948-matlab-simulations-for-radar-systems-design\">MATLAB Simulations for Radar Systems Design<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/authors\/10499\">Bassem Mahafza<\/a>.\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nSo congratulations, Bassem! Your old MATLAB code is now famous (sort of).\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/MATLAB-on-The-Americans-300x225.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\" \/><\/div><p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe TV show \"The Americans\" is a show about Soviet Union secret agents pretending to be a normal American couple in 1981-82 or so. In the 2nd season's final episode, which I watched last... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/2014\/06\/03\/matlab-code-in-an-unexpected-place\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}