What do you wish would be taught more in universities?
We’re on the intersection between mathematics, engineering and computer science. In many universities, those three disciplines just concentrate on their own little field. The mathematicians don’t want to dirty their hands with engineering, the engineers are afraid of mathematics, it’s the interdisciplinary, the combination of all three of those that students should have a chance to appreciate.
Read the full Cleve Moler interview at Computer World magazine's web site.
A small curiosity: did you know that MATLAB stands for ‘matrix laboratory’? I didn't :-)
