december 7 1984 headquarters natick massachusetts united states area served worldwide key people ceo and president jack little chief scientist cleve moler products matlab simulink revenue approximately 800 million 2014 1 number of employees over 3000 april 2014 slogan accelerating the pace of engineering and science website www.mathworks.com the mathworks inc. branded as simply mathworks is an american privately held corporation that specializes in mathematical computing software . its major products include matlab and simulink . as of april 2014 it employed over 3 000 people worldwide with 70 % located at the company s headquarters in natick massachusetts united states . contents 1 history 2 products and services 3 corporate affairs 3.1 social responsibility 3.2 anti trust behaviour 3.3 lawsuits 3.4 logo 4 references 5 external links history edit mathworks was founded in portola valley california by jack little president & ceo cleve moler chief scientist and steve bangert now inactive on december 7 1984 . its flagship product matlab made its public debut at the ieee conference on decision and control in las vegas nevada that same year . 2 the company sold its first order 10 copies of matlab for 500 to the massachusetts institute of technology mit in february 1985 . 3 main campus in natick in 1986 mathworks relocated to massachusetts moving into its current headquarters in natick in july 1999 . in 2007 mathworks acquired polyspace technologies 4 and started including the polyspace products in their matlab releases in 2008 . in 2008 mathworks acquired sciface software gmbh & co. kg makers of mupad 5 and started including mupad in their symbolic math toolbox replacing the existing maple engine . 6 in 2013 mathworks acquired steepest ascent makers of lte toolbox . 7 mathworks expanded its main campus in massachusetts with the purchase of further buildings in 2008 2009 8 and 2013 . 9 products and services edit see also matlab mex file simulink simevents stateflow xpc target polyspace corporate affairs edit social responsibility edit mathworks refers to its corporate social responsibility program as its social mission which has five components investments in education staff driven initiatives local community support green initiatives and disaster relief . 10 the company annually sponsors a number of student engineering competitions including ecocar an advanced vehicle technology competition created by the united states department of energy doe and general motors gm . mathworks sponsors museums and science learning centers such as the boston museum of science since 1991 11 and the cambridge science center in the united kingdom . 12 it also is a supporter of public broadcasting including national public radio npr s here and now program . 13 the company website gathered contributions to the 2010 haiti earthquake relief efforts . 14 anti trust behaviour edit the licensing of mathworks software was under investigation for anti trust behavior by the eu . 15 the case was closed in 2014 . 16 lawsuits edit mathworks was found to have infringed 3 patents from national instruments in 2003 which was confirmed by a court of appeal in 2004 . 17 the result was an injunction forbidding the manufacture and sale of simulink r14 . mathworks then released r14sp1 to circumvent the injunction but this was still alleged to infringe patents by national instruments . there isn t much information that is publicly available after that on the outcome of the following trial for these new infringements but since simulink has remained on sale ever since and is still available in 2013 18 it is reasonable to assume that subsequent releases after r14sp1 were found to no longer infringe on national instruments patents or that the court ruling went in favour of mathworks or again that national instruments patents eventually expired . in 2011 mathworks and accelereyes sued and counter sued each other over intellectual property issues . mathworks alleged patent infringement of their parallel computing toolbox product by acceleeyes jacket product . 19 accelereyes alleged trade secret misappropriation by the same parallel computing toolbox as well as unfair and deceptive acts and practices breach of contract and unjust enrichment . 20 in december 2012 accelereyes and mathworks appear to have settled their dispute out of court and to have started working together . 21 in december 2012 uniloc filed a lawsuit against mathworks over alleged patent infringements in the activation software that mathworks uses for matlab licenses to combat piracy . 22 logo edit the logo represents the first vibrational mode of a thin l shaped membrane clamped at the edges and governed by the wave equation . 23 references edit mathworks company overview . retrieved december 1 2015 . schrader c.b. ; spong m.w. dec 2004 . the ieee conference on decision and control tracing cdc history . ieee control systems magazine . 24 6 56 66 . doi 10.1109 mcs .2004.1368481 . retrieved jan 14 2011 . blanton kimberly april 20 1997 . at mathworks support fun success ceo jack little believes in power of his workers and their ideas . the boston globe . retrieved april 14 2010 . the mathworks acquires polyspace technologies leading developer of embedded system code verification tools . mathworks . retrieved 18 january 2013 . sciface software and mupad pro acquired by the mathworks . mackichan software inc. retrieved 18 january 2013 . http www.mathworks.co.uk products new products r2008b transition.html http www.steepestascent.com mw.html mathworks buys natick building to create campus . the metrowest daily news . december 30 2009 . retrieved april 14 2010 . mathworks pays 55m for boston scientific s natick hq . boston business journal . april 5 2013 . retrieved may 1 2013 . mathworks social mission . natick ma mathworks . retrieved april 12 2010 . boston museum of science corporate sponsors . http www.mos.org corporate sponsors . boston museum of science . external link in website help ; missing or empty url help ; access date requires url help mathworks about us . http www.mathworks.com company aboutus soc mission education . mathworks inc. external link in website help ; missing or empty url help ; access date requires url help here & now home page . national public radio . retrieved june 6 2014 . strom stephanie february 11 2010 page a10 . small fund raisers for victims start to add up . the new york times . retrieved april 12 2010 . check date values in date help mathworks software license probed by eu antitrust regulators bloomberg news http ec.europa.eu competition elojade isef case details.cfm proc code 1 39840 patent litigation faq pdf . national instruments . retrieved 17 january 2013 . http www.mathworks.com products simulink http www.scribd.com doc 59765193 mathworks v accelereyes et al http www.scribd.com doc 130296250 accelereyes answer and counterclaims against mathworks exciting updates from accelereyes . accelereyes . retrieved 18 january 2013 . http www.scribd.com doc 118155241 uniloc luxembourg et al v mathworks moler cleve 2003 . the mathworks logo is an eigenfunction of the wave equation . natick ma mathworks . retrieved 2013 11 23 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to mathworks . mathworks company page the origins of matlab by cleve moler the growth of matlab and the mathworks over two decades by cleve moler coordinates 42 18 01 n 71 21 01 w 42.30025 n 71.35039 w 42.30025 ; 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