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           ***Note -- Matlab has open source alternatives...scilab and octave

           see http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~stephens/NUM/MATLAB/matlabanalogues.html

           see the page above for relevant links

           ***if you have your own personal copy of matlab or
             octave check out

                 www.mathworks.com/moler     

             suggested downloads are the .pdf chapters of his book
             and NCM files
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           handouts in the past have been  drawn from following list

           1.    Notes on Computational Mathematics: Matlab
           2.    Locating roots of Equations
           3.    Naive Guassian Elimination
           4.    Example 6.3   Four-by-Four Systems
           5.    Reviews of Arrays, Vectors and Matrices
           6.    MATLAB Source Code
           7.    Two non-linear Problems  Planetary Positions and    
                                        input-output angles
           8.    truss example                                       
           9.    position of a two-link robot arm                    
          10.    ill-conditioned matrices + iterative methods        
          11.    bridge design demo                                  
          12.    link to Cleve Moler's MATLAB book and software      
          13.    eigenvalue handout                                  
          14.    svd handout                                         
          15.    project 1   robot arm movement                      
          16.    project 2   temperature of metal plate              
          17.    Ordinary Differential Equations                     
          18.    ODEs with Matlab                                    
          19.    Perceptrons: An Associative Learning Network        
          20.    Neural-Network Heuristics                           
          21     Polynomial Interpolation                           
          22.    3-D Visualization (Matlab)                         
          23.    Introduction to the Matlab Neural Net Toolbox      
          24.    Trigonometric interpolation                        
          25.    Finding the min or max of a function (Matlab)      
          26.    Local and Global Minima                            
          27.    Regression analysis                                
          28     Intractability.                                    
          29     Intractability   ppt                               
          30     Nelder-Mead method                                 
          31     Monte Carlo and Simulation                         
          32     Lab 1 exercises                                    
          33     Markov property                                    
          34     Random Number Generators + random graphs           
          35     Shuffling - Diagonis                               
          36.    Monte Carlo and Simulation II                      
          37.    sound commands in Matlab                           
          38.    MP3 files                                          
          39     Digital Signal Processing (1)                      
          40     Lab2 exercises                                     
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          43     Fourier Methods in signal processing               
          44     Markov Chains                                      
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          46     Lab3a  and list of Matlab sound commands   
          47     Digital Signal Processing (2)
          48.    Sounds and Signals                                 
          49.    Image Processing                                   
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        Recommended (+) and Highly recommended links (++)--

          1.    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelder-Mead_method
                    Nelder- Mead    (+)
          2.    www.mathworks.com/moler   (++)     
                    Cleve Moler's matlab web site 
             suggested downloads are the .pdf chapters of his book
             and NCM files
          
          3.  www.boomer.org    Optimization , including non-linear
                                               regression  (+)
 
          4.  www4.ncsu.edu/~ctk/matlab_darts.html
                    Iterative Methods for Optimization: Matlab Codes


         4a. Check out   http://www.jhu.edu/virtlab/bridge/bridge.htm

               for a truss bridge calculator and also ...

               http://www.garrettsbridges.com/design/trussdesign

                 for more on bridge design       ***new link

                and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLlRguPpnY&feature=related

                  for  YouTube stuff on bridge designs
    
         4b.  try    http://people.scs.fsu.edu/~burkardt/m_src/m_src.html

              for a LARGE collection of Matlab source code

         4c   Random numbers and Slot machines ...the Ronald Dale Harris
              case

                www.askreamaor.com/security-and-prevention/slot-machine-hacking/
                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Dale_Harris

         4d   What is a good random number generator? FIPS  140-2

                http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips140-2/fips1402annexc.pdf.

         4e/  Rules of 'craps'

                 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craps


         4f.  Cellular Atomata - what is it?

              www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/cellular-automata.html

              http://kidojo.com/cellauto/

        4g.   Latest odd and assorted 455 links
              
        4h      more matlab source code

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          sample project report #1  
sample project report #2 ...not complete but enough of it to give you the idea