Cleve Moler, RIP
MathWorks (Hacker News, Reddit):
Cleve was chief mathematician and cofounder of MathWorks and the author of the first version of MATLAB.
In his early years, he was a professor of math and computer science for almost 20 years at the University of Michigan, Stanford University, and the University of New Mexico. During this time he was known for being one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, two foundational Fortran libraries for numerical computing. One popular paper of his is “Nineteen Dubious Ways to Compute the Exponential of a Matrix.”
He is coauthor of three traditional textbooks on numerical methods and author of two online books, Numerical Computing with MATLAB and Experiments with MATLAB.
Before joining MathWorks full-time in 1989, he also worked for Intel Hypercube, where he coined the term “embarrassingly parallel”, and Ardent Computer Corporation.
