MATLAB: Difference between revisions

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{{As of|2020}}, MATLAB has more than four million users worldwide.<ref name="mathworksCompanyOverview">{{cite web|title=Company Overview|url=https://uk.mathworks.com/content/dam/mathworks/handout/2020-company-factsheet-8-5x11-8282v20.pdf|author=The MathWorks|date=February 2020}}</ref> They come from various backgrounds of [[engineering]], [[science]], and [[economics]]. {{As of|2017}}, more than 5000 global colleges and universities use MATLAB to support instruction and research.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Current number of matlab users worldwide |url=https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/77436-current-number-of-matlab-users-worldwide |date=2017-11-09 |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=Mathworks}}</ref>

MATLAB was first released as a commercial product in 1984 at the Automatic Control Conference in [[Las Vegas]].<ref name="Chonacky Winch 2005 pp. 9–10" /><ref name="hobby" /> [[MathWorks]], Inc. was founded to develop the software<ref name="Press 2008 p. 6">{{cite book | last=Press | first=CRC | title=Solving Applied Mathematical Problems with MATLAB | publisher=CRC Press | year=2008 | isbn=978-1-4200-8251-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V4vulPEc29kC&pg=PA6 | access-date=September 16, 2020 | page=6}}</ref> and the MATLAB programming language was released.<ref name="Moler Little pp. 1–67" /> The first MATLAB sale was the following year, when [[Nick Trefethen]] from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] bought ten copies.<ref name="hobby" /><ref name="LoTurco 2020">{{cite web | last=LoTurco | first=Lori | title=Accelerating the pace of engineering | website=MIT News |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology | date=January 28, 2020 | url=https://news.mit.edu/2020/accelerating-pace-engineering-mathworks-fellows-0128 | access-date=September 16, 2020}}</ref>