Cleve Moler

Cleve Moler
Cleve Moler
	Moler in 2017
Born	Cleve Barry Moler; August 17, 1939; Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Died	May 20, 2026 (aged 86); Saint Michaels, Maryland, U.S.
Education	California Institute of Technology (BS); Stanford University (PhD);
Known for	MATLAB
Awards	Computer Pioneer Award (2012); IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2014);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, computer science
Workplaces	University of Michigan; Stanford University; University of New Mexico;
Thesis	Finite difference methods for the eigenvalues of Laplace's operator (1965)
Doctoral advisor	George Forsythe
Doctoral students	Alan Cline; Charles F. Van Loan; Jack Dongarra;

Cleve Barry Moler (August 17, 1939 – May 20, 2026) was an American mathematician and computer programmer who specialized 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 created 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.