Mathematics Readers’ Choice — Gold Award: MATLAB

MATLAB is a high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis and numeric computation. Users can solve technical computing problems faster than with traditional programming languages, such as C, C++ and Fortran. Applications are found in signal and image processing, communications, control design, test and measurement, financial modeling and analysis, and computational biology. Add-on toolboxes (collections of special-purpose functions) extend the environment to solve particular classes of problems in these application areas.