Re: Future of Octave

[Javier Fernández]

> Subject: Future of Octave
> From: isaacgerg <address@hidden>
>   
> Hi,
>   I think Octave is a really great tool and was impressed by the number of
> functions you have implemented.  I was wondering though, where is Octave
> going?  What are you short term goals (1 year) and long term goals (5 years
> and 10 years).
>
> Thanks,
> Isaac
>   
There were some conference papers, but JWE thoughts might have changed 
in the meantime. I was concerned about what I read in the ISC'01 paper, 
but I'm very glad with the current situation.

John W. Eaton.
Octave: Past, present and future.
In Kurt Hornik and Fritz Leisch, editors, /Proceedings of the 2nd 
International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing, March 
15-17, 2001, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria/, 2001.
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2001/Proceedings/Eaton.pdf
http://jbrwww.che.wisc.edu/tech-reports/twmcc-2001-03.pdf

John W. Eaton and James B. Rawlings.
Ten years of Octave -- recent developments and plans for the future.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Statistical 
Computing, Vienna, Austria, March 2003.
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2003/Proceedings/EatonRawlings.pdf
http://jbrwww.che.wisc.edu/tech-reports/twmcc-2003-01.pdf

John W. Eaton:
"GNU Octave: History and Outlook for the Future"
2005 AIChE Meeting, Cincinnati Ohio, November 1, 2005
http://www.che.utexas.edu/cache/newsletters/fall2005_GNU.pdf

Last, but not least
http://cache.org/John%20Eaton-CACHE%20Award.html
Congratulations!!! (sorry for the ~3yr delay :-)

Coming from Raytheon, I wonder if you are considering quitting from The 
Other Product :-)
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/products/vis/visualization/matlab/mc2/mc2.pdf
(Red Raytheon logo on each slide) (remarks about MatlabMPI on slide 27/28)
I think I saw something relevant to T.O.P. wrt Raytheon but I cannot 
remember what right now. I've been trying to find it again but I can 
find only the MONARCH stuff. I must have seen it in the HPEC proceedings
http://www.google.com/search?q=Raytheon+HPEC

-javier