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 >>

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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 >>

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I recently got an e-mail from a MATLAB user that had a large dataset in Excel. They wanted to import the data and “take the average of the graph”. It turns out that meant fitting a… read more >>

I am about to leave for a recruiting trip to Carnegie Mellon University.  Be sure to stop by the booth and say hello (or ARGHHH! if I see you on Friday, International Talk like a Pirate Day!)  If you… read more >>

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Today, Brett, Bob and Jiro have completed their inheritance of Pick of the Week blog.  There is a fine heritage of Applications Engineers running the Pick of the Week blog.  Scott Hirsch and I… read more >>

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Very often MATLAB users want to be able to process a set of files from a directory. In this video, I show how you can look through a directory seeking files of the form “data###.dat” and… read more >>

This puzzler is very straightforward, so I hope to hear from some of the newer MATLAB users. I think the solution is very linear, most people would come up with the same solution. As a hint, be… read more >>