The MathWorks History
MATLAB Commands
Boston (Natick)
Simulink Blocks
EDG
100

Who are the original MathWorks Founders (2 names)?

Who are Jack Little and Cleve Moler?

100

What function is used to graph data stored in vectors X and Y?

plot(X,Y)
100

The place in Natick mall with real-world, interactive social gaming with over 50 physical and mental challenges set in artistic environments

What is Level 99?

100

This block multiplies the input by a constant value 


What is the Gain block?

100

This support team handles MATLAB Coder

What is PCG?

200

The MathWorks Logo is based on this shape

What is the L shaped membrane?

200

This operator will solve the systems of equations (eg. Ax = b)

What is "Backslash" or "\"?

200

The name of the historical political protest against the British Parliament in 1773

What is Boston Tea Party?

200

This block outputs a sinusoidal waveform

What is the Sine Wave block?

200

The software used to handle customer requests

What is Salesforce?
300

This prestigious school was MathWorks’ first customer

What is MIT?

300

This command generates a column vector of 100 random numbers drawn from a standard normal distribution

What is "randn(100,1)"?

300

The name of the lake next to Lakeside campus

What is Lake Cochituate?

300

This block holds and delays its input by one sample period

What is the Unit Delay block?

300

The acronym for the CDA support team stands for this

What is Control Design Automation?
400

This state is where MathWorks was founded

What is California?

400

This is the output of the following command “size([4, 5]’, 2, 1)”

What is "[1 2]"?

400

This is the number of NBA championships won by the Boston Celtics

What is 18?

400

This block models a linear system by a transfer function of the Laplace-domain variable s

What is the Transfer Fcn block?

400

What is the name of the process used to consult with developers on a case?

What is "Escalation"

500

MathWorks moved to the Apple Hill campus in this year

What is 1999?

500

“The bald and not excessively bald and not excessively smart hamster obeyed a terrified and not excessively terrified hamster.” is the output of this MATLAB command

What is "why"?

500

What sport, predominantly played in New England, was invented in the Boston area?

What is Candlepin Bowling
500

This block adds an external signal or message port to control the execution of a subsystem or a model

What is the Trigger block?

500

The first employee in Technical Support at MathWorks

Who is Jack Little?

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