20世纪70年代，美国新墨西哥大学计算机科学系主任Cleve Moler为了减轻学生编程的负担，用FORTRAN编写了最早的MATLAB。1984年由Little、Moler、Steve Bangert合作成立了的MathWorks公司正式把MATLAB推向市场。到20世纪90年代，MATLAB已成为国际控制界的标准计算软件。 -70 years of the 20th century, the United States Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico Cleve Moler in order to reduce the burden of student programming, the earliest written with FORTRAN MATLAB. 1984 by Little, Moler, Steve Bangert cooperation established in the MathWorks MATLAB to market the company officially. 90 20th century, MATLAB has become the international control of industry standard calculation software.