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John “Jack” N. Little Co-Founder&President The MathWorks

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Being the scion of an erudite family can sometimes be very
 daunting to live with and even live up to. Not so much for John N. 
Little, who co-founded a company, The MathWorks, whose flagship product 
is MATLAB which is known to be used by about a million scientists across
 the globe - to be able to do what they want to do really well 
(innovations, discoveries, solutions, etc.). If you are wondering why 
something that has such an astonishing following and endorsement by some
 of the most brilliant minds on the planet does not have enough told 
about it in the world, then here’s why: simply because when it was 
conceived and developed by Cleve Moler (Co-authored by John Little) – 
the idea wasn’t to create a mass product.</div>
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If anything, it was the 
result of a super-genius’(Moler) quest to put to use his knowledge and 
express it to the community or audience that is likely to make the most 
out of it. That audience being, primarily, scientists and students (in 
later years), it didn’t warrant any PR activity at all. Word-of-mouth 
and the credibility of the co-founders did it for them.</div>
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Both of 
the founders have, till date, (barring the brief period when Moler had 
to work else as The MathWorks was too small to afford his pay, but he 
continued to support them during this phase, nonetheless) lived and 
breathed each day of their lives with The MathWorks.</div>
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If it was the
 ingenuity of Moler, the mathematics champ, then it surely was the 
enterprising self of Little that actually made MATLAB what it is today, a
 fact vindicated by Moler himself when he said “‘I am the father of 
MatLab, but Jack Little is the father of The MathWorks. He is the spirit
 and the brains behind the company. Little had academic training as a 
control engineer at MIT and Stanford so he knew the applications of 
matrices to control theory, which is still one of the main parts of our 
business – and I didn’t know anything about it. When the PC came out in 
1982, Little figured that it could be used for technical computing. It 
was Little who started the company.”</div>
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So, what started with just 
the two MIT grads in the early ‘80s, has now become an organization that
 not only commands much respect from some of the most ignited minds on 
this planet (adopted by more than a million users, 5,000 universities 
and colleges., but also has been able to become and stay commercially 
viable as well as sustainable. The company today has around 3000+ 
employees working for it and it clocked revenues of close to a $billion 
 (App. $893 M).</div>
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All this couldn’t have been possible, as Moler himself expressed, with the wonderful thorough-bred Jack Little.</div>
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<strong>Family & Education and early sparks</strong></div>
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Jack
 Little is the son of renowned MIT (Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology) professor, John D.C. Little, who is best known for Little’s 
Law – an operations research approach that he propounded. In fact, 
Jack’s father is also known to have earned the first Ph.D. in operations
 that was ever awarded in 1955. Not only that he is the founder of the 
concept called ‘Marketing Science’ which he put forth based on his study
 of humans and their buying behavior, besides starting a couple of 
companies.</div>
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It is only natural that with such an upbringing one 
would expect children in such environs to either grow sick of what the 
seniors do or like in the case of Jack, pick up inspiration from them 
and chart a path of success for themselves in due course. And so it was 
that, Jack Little completed his bachelor’s in electrical engineering 
from, where else, but the MIT from 1974-78 and then, as if that was not 
enough, he further went on to do his M.S. (Electrical Engineering) from 
the hot-bed of many great possibilities and that has so given many 
entrepreneurs of the modern world, Stanford University, which he did 
from 1978 - 1980.</div>
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<strong> Serendipitous Rendezvous…</strong></div>
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Around
 the time he graduated from Stanford, a chance meeting with yet another 
of his ilk, Cleve Moler, determined the path for Jack for the rest of 
his life. Given that both were learned men with exemplary educational 
backgrounds, the two got along well and mostly delved into math and its 
application in science. It was their keen study of life in general and 
the life and work style of scientists and engineer that helped them in 
recognizing the need among this specific group of people for more 
powerful and productive computation environments beyond those provided 
by languages such as Fortran and C and, further, in putting to use their
 own expertise and experience in maths, computer science, and 
engineering, for developing a high-performance technical computing 
environment that they would call MATLAB (Short for Matrix Laboratory).</div>
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While
 Moler did the ground-work on the most effective application of matrices
 in scientific work – that was crux of the dev environment (MATLAB), 
Jack helped give it the much needed demand and utility angle propelled 
by the fact that MATLAB combines comprehensive math and graphics 
functions with a powerful high-level language.</div>
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The two men 
respected the fact that while their skills-set were distinct their 
capabilities were complementary. And it was this deep understanding of 
each other and their combined belief in the product / solution they had 
together built for better use, which has led to them being still at the 
company they co-founded more than three-and-a-half decades ago.</div>
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<strong>Modus Operandi…to begin with</strong></div>
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Moler
 had developed MatLab but it took flight after he joined hands with 
Jack. Moler’s objective in creating MatLab was simple – to enable 
students to use the LINPACK and EISPACK math libraries without having to
 write FORTRAN programs. Being the shrewd and visionary man he was, when
 Jack reckonedit is a powerful software with the potential to enable 
engineering, scientific, and technical applications on personal 
computers (which also happened to come around in 1982). Thus with that 
spurring the duo into putting together many such aspects, backed by 
their experience, they further developed it so that it can very 
effective. They worked on it for about 3 years after setting up The 
MathWorks in Boston (MA) around 1982. Once they were sure that it was 
ready to be used, whom did they sell it to?</div>
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You probably would 
have guessed that since it is a platform/solution aimed at scientists 
and engineers and since who better than an institution that has 
historically been one of the most fertile places for innovation, MIT 
which was also in the vicinity of the company (Cambridge, MA). If you 
did then you were bang on.</div>
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MIT was the company’s first customer to
 buy 10 copies of MatLab in 1985 and thus began the saga of great 
word-of-mouth publicity – the best and most credible form of marketing 
you can get for your offerings – and it was soon getting adopted by 
hundreds and thousands of scientists, engineers, and students across the
 globe it realizing their own potential to create great things – with 
the help of MATLAB.</div>
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<strong>Growth and stability…</strong></div>
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That
 Jack and team had built something absolutely critical for the scientist
 fraternity was beyond any doubt. With that sense of satisfaction, Jack 
continued to make the company scale, attract the best talent, create 
further products and solutions, and generally stick on to the original 
purpose with which it was started (the guiding principle being that they
 reckon, feel, and dissipate the importance of maths as the cornerstone 
of all sciences) – all without going cut-throat commercial.</div>
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In 
fact, for all we know, it was MIT’s initial purchase of MATLAB and 
Jack’s as well as the company’s association with MIT that has lasted for
 so many years that helps to reinforce everybody’s faith and confidence 
in The MathWorks products - especially MATLAB.Asa Fellow of the IEEE and
 Trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, he writes 
and speaks about technical computing, Model-Based Design, 
entrepreneurship, and software industry issues.</div>
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Since MATLAB was 
intended at researchers, innovators, scientists, and students, Jack took
 a very bold decision of providing it to students for a subsidized price
 – which initially was resisted and feared by many as a potentially 
counter-productive move, as it could lead to piracy and opportunity cost
 besides, of course, denting into the confidence of regular licensed 
users who would feel kind of robbed. But, Jack was right in this case 
too, like he was always from the beginning, which was proven by the fact
 that the user community in general did let that happen as it ensured 
they used it responsibly. Hats-off to Jack’s vision of ensuring greater 
adoption as well as retaining the faith of existing users.</div>
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<strong>Other associations:</strong></div>
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<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">“The  MathWorks makes tools for control engineers and as such we are involved in all  sorts of industries.”</td></tr>
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John “Jack” N. Little Co-Founder&President The MathWorks

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அர்ஜென்டினாவில் இருந்து பார்ன் சுவாலோ என்ற சின்னஞ்சிறு பறவையினம் தனது இனப்பெருக்கத்திற்காக, ஒவ்வொரு ஆண்டும் பிப்ரவரி மாதம் புறப்பட்டு, 8300 கி.மீ., பயணம் செய்து மார்ச் இறுதியில் கலிபோர்னியா சென்றடைகிறது. கலிபோர்னியாவில் உள்ள கேபிஸ்டிரானோ தேவாலயப் பகுதியில் தங்கி இனப்பெருக்கம் முடிந்தபின், தங்கள் புதிய தலைமுறைகளோடு அக்டோபரில் புறப்பட்டு மீண்டும் 8300 கி.மீ., பறந்து அர்ஜென்டினாவுக்குச் செல்கின்றன.<br />
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இனப்பெருக்கத்திற்காக சில ஆயிரம் கி.மீ., பறப்பது பறவைகளுக்கு இயல்பான விஷயம். இதில் என்ன ஆச்சரியம் இருக்கிறது என்று நினைக்கலாம்? ஆச்சரியம் உண்டு!பார்ன் சுவாலோ பறவை இனம், அர்ஜென்டினாவில் இருந்து கலிபோர்னியாவுக்கு வந்து போக, பறந்து செல்லும் 16,600 கி.மீ., துாரத்தில் எங்கும் நிலப்பரப்போ, மலைப்பரப்போ கிடையாது! கடற்பரப்பின் மேல்தான் பறந்தாக வேண்டும். அப்படியானால் பசி எடுத்தால் அவை எப்படி இரைதேடும்? களைப்படைந்தால் அவை எப்படி ஓய்வு எடுத்துக் கொள்ளும்?அவை அர்ஜென்டினாவில் இருந்து புறப்படும்போது, சிறுகுச்சி ஒன்றை அலகில் கவ்விக் கொண்டு பறக்கின்றன. எப்பொழுதெல்லாம் அவற்றிற்குப் பசியும் களைப்பும் ஏற்படுகின்றதோ, அப்பொழுதெல்லாம் அவை கடல் பரப்பிற்கு தாழ்வாகப் பறந்து வந்து, அலகில் கவ்விய குச்சியை கடல் பரப்பின் மேல் போட்டு அதன் மீது நின்று கொண்டு இரை தேடிக் கொள்கின்றன; ஓய்வெடுத்துக் கொள்கின்றன.<br />
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பார்ன் சுவாலோ பறவைக்கு ஒரு சிறுகுச்சி 16,600 கி.மீ., பறப்பதற்கான வாழ்வாதாரமாக இருக்கிறது என்றால், கையும் காலும் ஐம்புலன்களும் ஆறறிவும் பெற்ற மனிதனுக்கு, வாழ்க்கையை முன்னெடுத்துச் செல்ல வாழ்வாதாரம் கிடைக்காமலா போய்விடும்?<br />
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இருந்தது</span>, <span lang="TA" style="font-family: Latha;">இப்போது எத்தனை<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>பெண்களுக்கு இருக்கிறது என்றும் கணக்கிட்டுப்
பார்த்தால் நமக்கு நன்கு புரியும்.</span>

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வெளியூர்களுக்கு செல்லும் போது தலையில் வேப்பிலை இலையை செருகி வைப்பார்கள் அது
எதற்காக</span>? <span lang="TA" style="font-family: Latha;">வேப்பிலை ஒரு சிறந்த
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சுவாசிக்கும் காற்றில் இருக்கும் கிருமி தொற்றிலிருந்து காக்கிறது.</span></div>
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