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News Release from: The MathWorks | Subject: MATLAB and Simulink Student Version Release 14
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 August 2004
New academic release of MATLAB and
Simulink
The MathWorks today announced the worldwide availability of MATLAB and Simulink Student Version Release 14.
The MathWorks today announced the worldwide availability of MATLAB and Simulink Student Version Release 14 The Student Version package includes the newest releases of MATLAB and Simulink, the books Learning MATLAB and Learning Simulink, and a complete set of product documentation on a CD
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 22 Feb 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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I particularly welcome the new Bioinformatics Toolbox because it allows my students and fellow researchers to easily analyse complex bioinformatics data, from genomic sequences to microarray data analysis, and speeds up the development and deployment of bioinformatics algorithms." New capabilities and features of MATLAB 7 enable students to increase productivity with a redesigned desktop that includes new programming and debugging tools, automated program analysis for code quality, and publishing of code and output directly to HTML and Word.
New interactive point-and-click plotting tools enable faster and easier creation of MATLAB graphics, including the ability to generate code that recreates plotting sessions for later use or redistribution.
Additionally, support for integer and single-precision maths lets faculty and students decide which type of data best fits an algorithm, resulting in faster computations, faster access to data, and the ability to handle large data sets.
Simulink 6 includes a wide range of new and upgraded features that allow students to work with larger and more complex system models.
Student Version Release 14 now enables students to build complex models of up to 1,000 blocks for simulating and analysing multi domain systems for control, signal processing, communications, and other applications.
The new version enables faculty and students to learn and use a tool that has become the standard in a number of industries including aerospace, mechanical, and electrical engineering.
"The MathWorks has always supported the academic community by providing faculty and students with the latest technology, such as student versions of our core software products," said Cleve Moler, chief scientist at The MathWorks and creator of MATLAB.
"Student Version Release 14 allows academic institutions to leverage The MathWorks core technical computing expertise in a hands-on way that immediately impacts tomorrow's scientists and engineers." Today, more than one million customers, many of them researchers, instructors and students at more than 3,500 universities worldwide, use products from The MathWorks for technical computation, visualisation, programming, modelling, and simulation.
With added features and upgraded capabilities to assist engineering students and faculty in achieving academic goals, The MathWorks Student Version software provides future engineers with the industry's leading software for solving technical computing problems and designing dynamic control, signal processing, and communication systems.
MATLAB and Simulink Student Version Release 14 is available immediately at a student price of $99 in the U.S.
and Canada.
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