Cleve Moler

Cleve Moler is Chairman and Chief Scientist at The MathWorks. Before abandoning academic life for the computer industry, Moler was a professor for almost 20 years, in Math and in Computer Science, at Michigan, Stanford and New Mexico. He then spent five years with two computer hardware manufacturers, the Intel Hypercube organization and Ardent Computer.

Cleve's professional interests center on numerical analysis and mathematical software. In addition to being the author of the first version of MATLAB, he is one of the authors of the LINPACK and EISPACK scientific subroutine libraries. He is also co-author of three textbooks on numerical methods