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* People, at home, for whatever numerical purpose.
* People, at home, for whatever numerical purpose.
* Scientific [[Publications using Octave]].


=User experiences=
=User experiences=
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I am working at an engineering office and use Octave for
* simulating solar irradiation
* pre- and postprocessing raytracing data for concentrating solar mirrors
* calculating efficiencies of steam cycles
Walter
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At the [http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/ AILab] we use it as a tool for simulation (basic research and control oriented) and data analysis.
At the [http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/ AILab] we use it as a tool for simulation (basic research and control oriented) and data analysis.


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--Ronald Crummett
--Ronald Crummett
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I teach GNU Octave Programming since 2005 to students in Environmental Sciences at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, www.epfl.ch). Each year, about 70 students learn to use this beautiful free environment for scientific computing and visualization (28 hours of lectures and labs). My course material is available under http://enacit1.epfl.ch/cours_matlab/ 
--Jean-Daniel Bonjour
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Octave is installed in the server "pandora" at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if some else apart of me is aware of this. Sad thou.
Octave is installed in the server "pandora" at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if some else apart of me is aware of this. Sad thou.
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--Agustin Barto
--Agustin Barto
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Teaching:
At the University of Applied Sciences Bern I teach a 2 hour class on using Octave for engineers. Find the corresponding lectures notes at (http://staff.ti.bfh.ch/sha1/Labs/PWF/Documentation/OctaveAtBFH.pdf)
and the codes at (http://staff.ti.bfh.ch/sha1/Labs/PWF/Codes/). Feedback on the lecture notes is always welcome, I have to justify the time required to keep them up to date.
At the University of Bern in the Master program for Biomedical Engineering I use Octave to support the class on Numerical Methods (http://staff.ti.bfh.ch/sha1/NumMethods.html).
The missing feature students are asking for is a GUI, I do not need a GUI, probably age related ;-)
Research:
For the current research project of numerical simulations of the Novikov Veselov equations I use Octave
to implement the finite difference methods and the spectral methods with great success.
--Andreas Stahel
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Aside from using Octave for 90%+ of my own thesis work at the University of Colorado in Boulder, I have contributed to a project called CISM-DX. This is a collection of analysis and visualization tools based heavily on Octave and OpenDX? that is being developed as part of the NSF-funded Center for Integraged Space-weather Modeling (CISM). I don't think it (CISM-DX) has been used extensively in a traditional class setting, but it has been used in CISM's annual "summer school", a crash course intro to applied space physics held each year at Boston University. I wouldn't be surprised if others more familiar with CISM-DX are lurking about this list that could tell you more if they just spoke up.
Aside from using Octave for 90%+ of my own thesis work at the University of Colorado in Boulder, I have contributed to a project called CISM-DX. This is a collection of analysis and visualization tools based heavily on Octave and OpenDX? that is being developed as part of the NSF-funded Center for Integraged Space-weather Modeling (CISM). I don't think it (CISM-DX) has been used extensively in a traditional class setting, but it has been used in CISM's annual "summer school", a crash course intro to applied space physics held each year at Boston University. I wouldn't be surprised if others more familiar with CISM-DX are lurking about this list that could tell you more if they just spoke up.
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We have just swapped our main Undergraduate teaching from Matlab to Octave with little problem. We also distribute a Live CD with Octave on, + an embryonic web based calculation package using Octave as the backend processor, See http://www-mdp.eng.cam.ac.uk, for further details and a slightly buggy on-line version.
We have just swapped our main Undergraduate teaching from Matlab to Octave with little problem. We also distribute a Live CD with Octave on, + an embryonic web based calculation package using Octave as the backend processor, See http://www-mdp.eng.cam.ac.uk, for further details and a slightly buggy on-line version.
UPDATED 2012 - Still using Octave as our main teaching tooletc as above, we have also looked at it as the controlling language for our Robotics class.


--Peter Long
--Peter Long
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--John Swensen
--John Swensen
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I am using Octave to develop algorithms for auto-scaling of ionograms.
I am using it to develop algorithms for auto-scaling of ionograms.


-- Andrew Kelly, IPS Radio & Space Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
-- Andrew Kelly, IPS Radio & Space Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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I used Octave for a semester at my university, having two classes requiring to submit assignments done in MATLAB: ''Artificial Intelligence'' and ''Computer Vision''. Using the "matlab-incompatible" warning I am able to easily avoid incompatible syntax shorthands.
-- Andrea Lazzarotto
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I use Ocatve as a backend for part of my neuroimaging research at the ETH Zürich. Even if upstream writes their code mainly with MATLAB in mind, the benefits of Octave - especially concerning package manager integration and compilation are notable!
Octave allowed me to set up a batteries-included SPM distribution for Gentoo Linux via the NeuroGentoo repository.
-- Horea Christian
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I use Octave in the development of software for spaceflight simulation.
-- Pablo Edronkin
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Mote3D, an open-source toolbox for the generation of virtual random periodic particulate microstructures, was implemented using Octave. The toolbox was developed at German Aerospace Center (DLR) and is available at https://github.com/Mote3D/Mote3D_toolbox.
-- Henning Richter
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