Stories about: MATLAB

This interview is dedicated to the investigation of YACC, and to chatting with AT&T alumni Stephen C. Johnson. Johnson is currently employed at The MathWorks, where he works daily with MATLAB. Computerworld snatched the opportunity recently to get his thoughts on working with Al Aho and Dennis Ritchie, as well as the development of Bison.

A supercomputing, pay-per-use service that would make supercomputing affordable to small and mid-sized businesses as well individuals who need added computation power, was announced Tuesday.

Discerning typesetters have long relied on Tex and LaTeX for impeccable-looking documents. Now they have a front-end that works under Linux and BSD and brings control of the compilers and related utilities under the comprehensive graphical user interface. Authors and editors who use Kile can get increased productivity in the document creation business. This article will highlight some of Kile's key features which make it so attractive for newcomers to LaTeX.

The Department of Defence is developing additional software components for an existing multi-channel, multi-processor Linux cluster used as an RF test system.

Australia may boast great cultural icons like the Sydney Harbour Bridge but now the local ICT research community has developed an icon of its own, a robot that plays the violin.

Once the domain of monolithic, multimillion-dollar supercomputers from Cray and IBM, HPC (high-performance computing) is now firmly within reach of today's enterprise, thanks to the affordable computing power of clustered standards-based Linux and Microsoft servers running commodity Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors. Many early movers are in fact already capitalizing on in-house HPC, assembling and managing small-scale clusters on their own.

Model-based design solution provider MathWorks celebrated its 20th birthday with its Australian user base by staging seminars in most capital cities to launch Matlab 7 and Simulink 6.

Humana says it's leading the health benefits industry into a new world in which the focus will shift from employers, doctors and hospitals, where it has been for decades, to consumers. The company says it can better serve its members by giving them greater choice and greater control over their health and health benefits.

In an effort to break away from proprietary computer systems, the Joint Australian Facility for Ocean Observing Systems (Jafoos) has started rewriting its Quality Evaluation of Subsurface Temperatures (Quest) data management application in Java and will release its source code to the public domain.

Predicting rock behaviour under stressful conditions, either natural or mining, has become easier with the development of software that provides a practical and efficient method of analysing its structure.

IT forensics might be the poor relation of security training now, but moves in regulatory and policing circles are about to change that. Sandra Rossi reports on developments that will change the landscape of security in IT.