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Design News, September, 2005 by Field, Karen Auguston

Joel Katz, a staff engineer at Affymetrix in Bedford, MA, uses MATLAB, a math analysis software tool for engineers developed by MathWorks. Constantly on the lookout for new ways to cope with matrix math--which all engineers know is brutally complicated--he views the MATLAB central file exchange site as a critical resource.

"The file exchange is enormously helpful, because other MATLAB users are working on the same problems as I am, and many of them have developed reusable code that I can download," Katz explains. "But without going to the site every day--which I am way too busy to do--I had no easy way of knowing when somebody submitted something new." Now Katz no longer has to go hunt for new content on the site, because the site's new content is...

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