Meeting Reminder - BCS Linux/Unix User Group Meeting - 08/21/96

[Guy W Bzibziak]

LOCAL - Boston, MA - BCS Linux/Unix User Group Meeting - 08/21/96


Meeting Topic: Introduction to SciLab

Presented by: Carey Bunks [cbunks at bbn.com]

Who:    Boston Computer Society Linux/Unix User's Group
Date:   21 August 1996, Wednesday
Time:   7:00 pm.
Place:  MIT, Room 6-120

Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations in
a user-friendly environment.

It features:

* Elaborate data structures(polynomial, rational and string
	matrices, lists, multivariable linear systems,...).

* Sophisticated interpreter and programming language with
	Matlab-like syntax.

* Hundreds of built-in math functions (new primitives can easily
	be added).

* Stunning graphics (2d, 3d, animation).

* Open structure (easy interfacing with Fortran and C via online
	dynamic link).

* Many built-in libraries:
          + Linear Algebra (including sparse matrices, Kronecker form,
            ordered Schur,...).
          + Control (Classical, LQG, H-infinity,...).
          + Package for LMI (Linear Matrix Inequalities) optimization.
          + Signal processing.
          + Simulation (various ode's, dassl,...).
          + Optimization (differentiable and non-differentiable, LQ
            solver).
          + Metanet (network analysis and optimization).

     Symbolic capabilities through Maple interface.
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The Scilab homepage is at:
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/scilab.html
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Linux is a UNIX-like operating system built around POSIX standards.  From
its inception less than six years ago, it was developed over the Internet
by a group of people who (for the most part) have never seen each other,
and now runs on an (estimated) 1,000,000 computer systems.  The operating
system (and the source code for it) is free to anyone who wants it.  This
is probably the largest development project ever accomplished using the
Internet. 

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