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* Universities, as seen from [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general/9939/focus=9940 this discussion]. | * Universities, as seen from [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general/9939/focus=9940 this discussion]. | ||
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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. | |||
--[[User:KaKiLa|KaKiLa]] 07:38, 16 January 2012 (PST). | |||
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The list of self-described user experience has been provided in 01/2008 by Steve Thompson on the [https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave help-octave mailing list]: | The list of self-described user experience has been provided in 01/2008 by Steve Thompson on the [https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave help-octave mailing list]: | ||
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--Bill Denney | --Bill Denney | ||
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I use Octave, (together with MPITB | I use Octave, (together with [http://atc.ugr.es/javier-bin/mpitb MPITB] on a 128 Intel Itanium II nodes cluster) at the Centre for Advanced Computational Technologies/ISUFI of University of Lecce (Italy) for my researches. I usefully use Octave on the above mentioned cluster (for parallel data processing) where Matlab does not work because it's not officially supported on IA64 platforms. | ||
--Gianvito Quarta | --Gianvito Quarta | ||
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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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--Muthiah Annamalai | --Muthiah Annamalai | ||
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I use GNU Octave for many reasons. First, it is powerful, stable and easy to use. My research involves extensive Monte Carlo simulation work, and GNU Octave definitely satisfies my needs. Second, GNU Octave is free software. It adheres to the basic principle of giving the user the ``freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation. Third, GNU Octave's community of developers and users is friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. A quick post to the help list usually results in a quick solution to a problem I may have. | I use GNU Octave for many reasons. First, it is powerful, stable and easy to use. My research involves extensive Monte Carlo simulation work, and GNU Octave definitely satisfies my needs. Second, GNU Octave is free software. It adheres to the basic principle of giving the user the ``freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software, ''as defined by the Free Software Foundation''. Third, GNU Octave's community of developers and users is friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. A quick post to the help list usually results in a quick solution to a problem I may have. | ||
Power, stability, freedom, and community---some of the reasons why I use GNU Octave. | Power, stability, freedom, and community---some of the reasons why I use GNU Octave. | ||
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We use it for 2-3 different research projects in the LIMBS lab at Johns Hopkins. These are all on Linux machines. 1) Image capture, image processing, and control of a 6DOF robot arm for experiments in visual servoing | We use it for 2-3 different research projects in the LIMBS lab at Johns Hopkins. These are all on Linux machines. 1) Image capture, image processing, and control of a 6DOF robot arm for experiments in visual servoing | ||
* Image capture and controlling stimulus apparatus for experiments on sensorimotor integration in weakly electric fish | |||
* (In the works) Image capture and control algorithms for flexible-bevel tipped needle steering for percutaneous therapies | |||
In general, people here use Matlab for simulations and most research work, because (1) they feel the plotting utilities are better (the recent work by a lot of people is quickly making that a non-issue), (2) they often use arcane functions in toolboxes not provided by Octave or OctaveForge, and (3) that is what they learned with and they are sticking to it. | In general, people here use Matlab for simulations and most research work, because (1) they feel the plotting utilities are better (the recent work by a lot of people is quickly making that a non-issue), (2) they often use arcane functions in toolboxes not provided by Octave or OctaveForge, and (3) that is what they learned with and they are sticking to it. | ||
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--John Swensen | --John Swensen | ||
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I am using Octave to develop algorithms for auto-scaling of ionograms. | |||
-- 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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Add your own experience here! | Add your own experience here! | ||