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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
Mathworks (makers of Matlab & Simulink & Stateflow - perhaps the world's largest/most popular simulation software company) is right outside of Boston in Natick. The founders seem like Dean & Woodie kind of guys -- visionary folks.
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A Mathworks partnership would be an amazing asset to all programmers around the FIRST World. Imagine testing all your Autonomous programs without a finished robot or a practice field, which most coders don't get till Thursday of their first regional.
It is my understanding that Mathworks is still privately owned (ie no stockholders) so it may not be that difficult to get the owners, who are programmers themselves, to agree to help FIRST. They already heavily support academics since MATLAB really got its start in universities.
Great Idea Joe! Hope some one can follow through on it.