Cleve Moler, MATLAB Creator and MathWorks Cofounder, Dies at 86
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Cleve Moler, cofounder of MathWorks and creator of the MATLAB programming language, passed away on May 20, 2026, at age 86. Moler was a mathematician and computer science professor at several universities for nearly 20 years, and was known for co-authoring the foundational numerical computing libraries LINPACK and EISPACK. Along with Jack Little, he cofounded MathWorks to create MATLAB, a computational environment that revolutionized engineering and scientific computing.
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Cleve was chief mathematician and cofounder of MathWorks and the author of the first version of MATLAB.
Jack Little and Cleve Moler, cofounders of MathWorks, recognized the need among engineers and scientists for more powerful and productive computation environments beyond those provided by languages such as Fortran and C.
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