MATLAB

 

Platform, price, and supplier/creator

• Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac
• $99.00 for Students, $1,900 for Professionals, free trial
• The MathWorks Inc. : http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/

 

Applications

• A visualization tool with modeling and simulation.
• You can use MATLAB in a wide range of applications, including signal and image processing, numeric/symbolic computation, engineering and scientific graphics, communications, control design, test and measurement, financial modeling and analysis, and computational biology.

Web Resources

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matlab
• MathWorks demos: http://www.mathworks.com/products/demos
• MATLAB Central: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/
• Online Documentation: http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/matlab.shtml
• Online Tutorial: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~nsw/ench250/matlab.htm