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Acknowledgments
The MathWorks would like to acknowledge these contributors:
Thomas F. Coleman researched and contributed the large scale algorithms for constrained and unconstrained minimization, nonlinear least squares and curve fitting, constrained linear least squares, quadratic programming, and nonlinear equations.
Dr. Coleman is Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He is Director of the Cornell Theory Center and the Cornell Computational Finance Institute. Dr. Coleman is Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization, and a member of the Editorial Boards of Applied Mathematics Letters, SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, Computational Optimization and Applications, Communications on Applied Nonlinear Analysis, and Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing.
Dr. Coleman has published 4 books and over 70 technical papers in the areas of continuous optimization and computational methods and tools for large-scale problems.
Yin Zhang researched and contributed the large-scale linear programming algorithm.
Dr. Zhang is Associate Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics on the faculty of the Keck Center for Computational Biology at Rice University. He is on the Editorial Board of SIAM Journal on Optimization, and is Associate Editor of Journal of Optimization: Theory and Applications.
Dr. Zhang has published over 40 technical papers in the areas of interior-point methods for linear programming and computation mathematical programming.
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