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Used by engineers, scientists and others who work with numbers and algorithms, Matlab is a programming language and computing environment.

A flop is one of the elementary arithmetic operations $latex +$, $latex -$, $latex *$, $latex /$ carried out on floating-point numbers. For example, evaluating the expression $latex (b - ax)/c$ takes three flops. A square root, which occurs infrequently in numerical computation, is also counted as one flop. As an example, the computation of…

MathWorks gives $2 million to UNM to create endowed chair for Department of Computer Science October 18, 2022 - By Kim Delker MathWorks today (Oct. 18) announced it has donated $2 million to create an endowed chair in the Department of Computer...

Dongarra earned his doctorate in applied mathematics from UNM in 1980. His research was foundational to the field of computer science at UNM and in particular, high-performance computing. His advisor, Cleve Moler (who was the author of the first version of MATLAB), helped create the UNM Department of Computer Science in the late 1970s.

The University of New Mexico is planning a celebration on Monday, Oct. 10 in honor of alumnus Jack Dongarra, the recipient of the 2021 The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of...

UpdatedFri, May 7, 2021 at 1:08 pm ET Reply A team of 11th and 12th graders from Livingston High School took home a top prize of $22,500 in college scholarships during an international math competition. (Image: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics/Zoom) LIVINGSTON, NJ — Participation in an intensive, online international math competition has added up to a first-place win for a group of New Jersey high school students. The team of five 11th and 12th graders from Livingston High Scho...