NEW MATHWORKS PARTNER SERIES DELIVERS USER AND THIRD PARTY DEVELOPED MATLAB
TOOLBOXES WORLDWIDE

First Partner Series Toolboxes Authored by Industry Experts to Ship This
Fall

NATICK, Mass., October 19, 1993 - The MathWorks, Inc. today announced the
launch of its MathWorks Partner Series, a new software publishing program
designed to broadly distribute users and third-party developed toolboxes
for vertical applications based on its MATLAB software. The first three
Partner Series Toolboxes utilizing MATLAB's powerful technical computing
environment will ship this fall.

"MATLAB is an ideal environment for prototyping and implementing powerful
and flexible tools, ranging from individual algorithms to complete
technical applications," said Jim Tung. vice president of business
development for The MathWorks. "It's computational and visualization
capabilities, coupled with a high-level mathematical programming language,
lets researchers and technical experts implement and communicate their
technical ideas as practical tools. Now we are adding a means to
disseminate those tools and knowledge base to technical professionals
around the world, in such diverse application areas as engineering,
applied physics, computer science and chemistry."

Each year MATLAB users create hundreds of new applications, often as result
of their own research work. Some are distributed by the users themselves
via electronic mail, networks or conferences. Until now, MATLAB users have
had no formal mechanism to share the tools they developed. The Partner
Series provides that mechanism by bringing The MathWorks marketing,
distribution, and technical support resources to this ad hoc process.

The first three products typify the Partner Series, since they are
practical tools that implement theories at the cutting edge of scientific
and engineering research, written by users doing that research. They are: 
        

* The Hi-Spec Toolbox, for higher-order spectral analysis in areas such as
digital signal processing (DSP), fluid dynamics and telecommunications
research.

* The Model Predictive Control Toolbox, for designing model-based control
systems for industrial processes in fields such as chemical engineering
and process control.

* The Frequency Domain System Identification Toolbox, for frequency-based
modeling of physical systems in such diverse technical fields as acoustics
and speech research, seismic research and oceanography, and econometrics.

The toolboxes are implemented as MATLAB scripts (M-files) and delivered as
source code. This provides users with direct access to the underlying
algorithms, making the underlying mathematical principles easier to learn
and understand. In addition, the user can modify the tools to address any
specific needs.

The Partner Series Toolboxes will ship on all MATLAB 4.0 platforms,
including: 386/486 PCs running MS-Windows, Macintosh, Sun SPARC,
Hewlett-Packard Series 700, IBM RS/6000, Silicon Graphics, and DEC Ultrix
and Alpha/AXP Systems. Additional Toolboxes will be announced throughout
the year. Contact The MathWorks for the most up-to-date product
availability and pricing information.

MATLAB is the most powerful technical computing environment on the market
today. It provides numeric and symbolic computation, a high-level
programming language, graphics and application-specific toolboxes that
allow users to analyze and visualize data, analyze and optimize
engineering systems designs and algorithms, and create mathematical
models. Specific functionality includes object-oriented graphics, sparse
matrix support, sound output, graphical user interface controls and
hundreds of other math and graphics operations.

The MathWorks Inc., based in Natick, Mass., develops, markets and supports
high performance software for interactive numeric computation,
visualization, and dynamic system simulation. The MathWorks' products are
relied upon by more than 150,000 users at the world's leading commercial
and government research laboratories and organizations, and educational
institutions.

The MathWorks, Inc, 24 Prime Park Way, Natick, MA 01760
508-653-1415,  fax 508-653-2997

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