Cleve Moler
Award Name : IEEE John von Neumann Medal
Year of Award : 2014
Award for : Computers and Internet
Location : Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Cleve Barry Moler is an American mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing. He invented MATLAB, a numerical computing package, to give his students at the University of New Mexico easy access to these libraries without writing Fortran. In 1984, he co-founded MathWorks with Jack Little to commercialize this program.In February 2014, IEEE named Cleve the recipient of the 2014 IEEE John von Neumann Medal.