6:08

I have been waiting until the daylight portion of the ArmyAnts contest to post this commentary. Jan has done an excellent job with his algorithm. He made only one entry in that time period, and he… read more >>

I love the MATLAB contest, I am not sure if it is more fun to play the contest or to help design and administer it. Either way, I am looking forward to seeing a lot of really great algorithms from… read more >>

2:40

I think it is best to do these tutorials based on solving realistic coding challenges. In helping to write the code for the next MATLAB contest, I had a situation where I wanted two images to be… read more >>

5:43

A question that comes across my inbox from time to time is how to save the state of a GUI between session. There are few methods for doing this, one is using the HGSAVE command to save the .FIG file… read more >>

This blog is just one of many resource available to people that want to learn how to use MATLAB. I want to point you to several tutorials that are available for MATLAB.
You will find lots of… read more >>

This recent puzzler was very successful with entries from four different continents. I can understand the busy researchers of Antarctica not joining in, but I expected to hear from Australia and… read more >>

We are always working on new releases of MATLAB, and we have the second release of 2008 ready for you to download here.
You can read about the new features here. The most noticeable of the features… read more >>

I get lots of e-mail from blog readers that say they learn a lot from the videos here. Well, this week we want to learn from you.
The Usability team at The MathWorks studies how people actually use… read more >>

4:29

In the recent Puzzler about the spiral, most of the code that was produced went along the following: Create the spiral matrix Find the indices of the ‘1’s in the binary targets… read more >>

I have been working on a side project and I found I needed the following algorithm:

Given a binary five by five matrix, I need to find the ‘1’ value that is in the position that has the… read more >>