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About the Author
The author completed a Ph.D. in plasma physics at the Flinders Uni-
versity of South Australia in the days before matlab. Consequently, he
knows how much time can be saved when you don’t have to write your
own matrix inversion or polynomial evaluation routines in fortran.
His first exposure to matlab was at the Centre for Plasma Physics
Research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Ecole Poly-
technique F´ed´erale) in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he continued his
research in plasma physics. On his return to Australia to take up a posi-
tion with the Maritime Operations Division of the Defence Science and
Technology Organisation, he was given responsibility for research in the
flow noise problem of towed sonar arrays. His current research interests
include sonar signal processing and information displays. He has been
largely responsible for the growth in the use of matlab in his division,
and has conducted training courses in matlab.
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