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Group: comp.lang.fortran · Group Profile
Author: Ron FordRon Ford Date: Sep 10, 2008 17:49
On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:23:03 -0500, dpb posted:
> Ron Ford wrote:
> ...
>> UNM is just down the hill for me. It might be worth a little poking around
>> the CS department and getting the fuller story. Sometimes, such
>> departments are very generous with Joe Public using their resources.
>
> Which "fuller story" you're after is beyond me, but it's been over 20
> years since Cleve was at UNM since TMW (The Mathworks, the company that
> produces Matlab) was founded in 1984.
>
> The story from Cleve's pen is at
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> http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/news_notes/clevescorner/dec04.html
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> It's actually pretty interesting reading as it chronicles much of the
> development of early matrix computational methods.
Interesting reading. I had other business downtown today and stopped at
UNM to poke around. There wasn't much at the CS dept except proximity to
the engineering library, where a person could thumb through fortran-related
materials. They had a manual for Lapack and Eispack, which provided the
clearest explanations for Hessenberg forms that I had yet to read. They
have MR&C online now for students and faculty.
More interesting and fortranny was the physics department, where they had
monographs posted of cosmological computations with fortran. I was
impressed with how much the pictures of graduate students and faculty
compared to what Republicans think terrorists are. They were
unapologetically ethnic and brown and didn't wear a flag lapel, which seems
to indicate how people feel about a policy of indiscriminate harming of
civilians.
The grad student I talked to in the CS dept didn't know who Cleve Moler
was. Go figure.
--
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than
the income of one's wife's sister's husband. 6
H. L. Mencken
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