In this episode, we chat with Cleve Moler, a pioneer in numerical mathematics,  creator of MATLAB and co-founder of MathWorks. We cover the birth of MATLAB, along with captivating stories about the origin of the iconic MathWorks logo, the enigmatic "why" command, the concept of "embarrassingly parallel computations," and the mysterious Pentium bug, among other. Outline 00:00 - Intro  05:23 - Advice to students 05:45 - Caltech & J. Todd 07:07 - Stanford & G. Forsythe 08:27 - The MathWorks logo  11:50 - ETH Zürich & Stiefel 16:51 - Householder meetings 19:48 - LINPACK & EISPACK projects  26:10 - The birth of MATLAB 29:42 - Stanford course and the founding of Mathworks 38:40 - Embarrassingly parallel computing 39:54 - The pentium bug 43:58 - SIAM and matrix exponentials 47:19 - Future of mathematics 51:36 - Outro Links Cleve’s corner - https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/ Mathworks - https://mathworks.com/ History of Matlab - https://tinyurl.com/3dupkb7w Datatron computer - https://tinyurl.com/4kmcw95r J. Todd - https://tinyurl.com/2s432wzc G. Forsythe - https://tinyurl.com/5583cfwx MathWorks logo - https://tinyurl.com/yc4th7sk E. Stiefel - https://tinyurl.com/ys4r2h96 J. Wilkinson - https://tinyurl.com/ye23bkdc LINPACK - https://tinyurl.com/39d7rwxk Computer solutions of linear algebraic systems - https://tinyurl.com/h9z7s342 Argonne Labs - https://www.anl.gov/ J. Dongarra - https://tinyurl.com/juzrw6y6 Embarrassingly parallel - https://tinyurl.com/yck38a4y Pentium bug - https://tinyurl.com/4k7dt76p 19 dubious ways to compute the exponential of a matrix - https://tinyurl.com/yeyjy2bw Perron-Frobenius theorem - https://tinyurl.com/fa59dv32 O. Taussky - https://tinyurl.com/yckexuws Support the showPodcast info Podcast website: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/5n84j85j Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/4rwztj3c RSS: https://tinyurl.com/yc2fcv4y Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/bdbvhsj6 Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/3z24yr43 Twitter: https://twitter.com/IncontrolP Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/35cu4kr4 Acknowledgments and sponsors This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.