The MathWorks Announces New Professional-Strength MATLAB Software for University Students

Business Wire, August 3, 1999

NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 1999--

-- For the First Time, Students Can Experience Real-World Engineering

With MATLAB, Simulink, and Application Toolboxes --

The MathWorks, Inc. today announced a new Student Version of its leading engineering software that will significantly extend the learning opportunities of engineering, science, and math students. Now, students will be able to purchase a full-function version of MATLAB with Simulink, plus a wide variety of toolboxes and blocksets. This new professional-strength Student Version provides extended software capabilities, such as unlimited matrix sizes, to increase the scope of their course work in electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering; mathematics; physics; chemistry; financial engineering; and the life sciences.

"For years, we recommended our students purchase Prentice Hall Student Editions of MATLAB to give themselves an option to the often crowded on-campus computing sites," said Daniel E. Rivera, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Chemical, Bio and Materials Engineering and Control Systems Engineering Laboratory, Manufacturing Institute, Arizona State University. "With the new MATLAB Student Version from The MathWorks, our students gain the additional benefits of its expanded functionality, complete compatibility with the Professional Edition used at the university computing sites, and attractive pricing. The ability to add toolboxes for students at a reasonable price is also appealing."

An important feature of the MATLAB Student Version is that students can add toolboxes and blocksets by purchasing and downloading them from The MathWorks Store at www.mathworks.com/store. According to Liz O'Neil, education marketing manager at The MathWorks, "Students will be able to use the MATLAB Student Version throughout their college years. In more advanced and specialized courses, they can now use a variety of application-specific toolboxes and blocksets to handle more complex problems in areas such as digital signal processing, communication systems, control design, and image processing."

The Company's software tools for technical computation, visualization, and simulation are already widely used in the technical curriculum at more than 2,000 colleges and universities as well as in industry. In addition, more than 300 textbooks in engineering and science feature MATLAB as a teaching tool. Schools that are currently using The MathWorks' products include MIT, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, and Cornell University.

With this new access to professional-strength software from The MathWorks, students will have access to the same software at home as they do on campus. Not only will the functionality be the same, but they will also have access to the current shipping version of MATLAB. This provides a smoother education process that benefits both professors and students.

The MathWorks will begin to offer the MATLAB Student Version in the United States and Canada beginning August 3, 1999. Building on its long-time partnership with The MathWorks, Prentice Hall will continue to offer the current Student Edition outside the United States and Canada. In addition, Prentice Hall will sell the Student Edition of MATLAB 5.3 in the United States and Canada through September 1999.

Pricing and Availability

The MATLAB Student Version is available immediately at The MathWorks Store at www.mathworks.com/store and at campus bookstores. The Student Version includes MATLAB 5.3, Simulink 3.0, and the Symbolic Math Toolbox at a discounted student price of $99. Toolboxes and blocksets are available for $59 each, except for the Signal Processing Toolbox and the Control System Toolbox, which are specially priced at $29 each. The Student Version is available for Windows and Linux platforms. To qualify for purchase, students must be enrolled at a degree-granting institution and have a valid student ID.

About The MathWorks, Inc.

Established in 1984, The MathWorks, Inc., a company of 500 people based in Natick, Mass., develops, markets, and supports MATLAB, Simulink, and a family of data analysis toolboxes for engineers, scientists, and technical professionals. MATLAB provides the foundation and computational engine for all of The MathWorks products. Widely recognized as the industry's premier language for technical computing, MATLAB provides comprehensive math and visualization functionality, and a powerful high-level language for users to interactively explore, analyze, design, and prototype solutions to their problems. Simulink is a graphical, block-diagram environment for modeling, analyzing, and simulating a broad range of dynamic nonlinear systems. Application toolboxes are available for specialized functions. The MathWorks products are used throughout the world in industries such as automotive, aerospace, environmental, telecommunications, computer peripherals, finance, and medical. More than 400,000 users at the world's leading industrial, government, and education organizations rely on The MathWorks products for tremendous gains in productivity.