from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
MATLAB
<mathematics, language, application> A {high-level language}
and {interactive} program from {The MathWorks} for {numeric
computation} and {visualisation}. MATLAB supports {numerical
analysis}, {matrix} computation, {signal processing}, {linear
algebra}, {statistics}, {Fourier analysis}, filtering,
optimisation and {numerical integration}. It can output two
and three dimensional graphics and can be integrated with {C},
{C++}, {Fortran}, {Java}, {COM} and {Microsoft Excel}.
(http://mathworks.com/products/matlab/).
Latest version: 7.0.4, as of 2005-08-13.
(2005-08-13)