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Events

Training Courses

We have several one-day training courses starting next week:

Please check our website at http://www.hrs.co.nz/training for more details and to register.

to contact Leon if you would like to find out about any in-house training courses.

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Upcoming Conferences

Here is a list of upcoming conferences that you or your colleagues may be interested in attending. Many of our customers attend these events as they provide an excellent forum for keeping up to date with advances in their industry or field. We have provided links to most of these conferences if you want to find out more.

If you live in a city where HRS will be exhibiting and you would like to meet with Ray, send an email to ray@hrs.co.nz, to arrange a place and time.

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Product News

MATLAB 2008b Student Version

The MATLAB and Simulink Student Version Release 2008b provides major updates that address student demand for an easy-to-learn, powerful environment for both numeric and symbolic computations.

New object-oriented programming capabilities include full support for classes and objects, inheritance, methods, properties, events, and packages. These enhancements to MATLAB make programming more intuitive for the majority of science and engineering students who are already familiar with object-oriented programming in languages such as C++, C#, and Java.

The new Student Version includes Symbolic Math Toolbox Version 5.1 with a new MuPAD notebook interface that supports embedded text, graphics, and typeset math for documenting and managing symbolic mathematics computations performed with the MuPAD language. It also provides methods and functions to link MuPAD notebooks and language with the MATLAB environment. With this capability, students gain a single integrated environment for working with both numeric and symbolic computations.

"The features in Student Version 2008b further simplify MATLAB programming for students, making them proficient with the program quickly so that instructors can spend more time on actual projects and course work," said Cleve Moler, chief scientist at The MathWorks and creator of MATLAB. "Students will benefit from code reuse and encapsulation capabilities that object-oriented programming offers; but more importantly, they can build on their knowledge of other object-oriented languages that they are already learning at school."

To help students ramp up faster, The MathWorks has produced free, self-paced online video tutorials designed to familiarise students on MATLAB and Simulink in less than two hours. The tutorials are available at http://www.mathworks.com/student/start.

to contact Bruce about MATLAB 2008b Student Version

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New Version of the Parallel Computing Toolbox

The MathWorks today announced that its Parallel Computing Toolbox now enables MATLAB users to create parallel applications and distribute them to other users as standalone executables or software components for use on computer clusters.  In addition, Parallel Computing Toolbox introduces a new language construct, called spmd, which simplifies the development of data-intensive parallel applications.

Click here to read the full press release.

to contact Bruce if you wish to learn about this MATLAB product.

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Simulink Fixed Point 6

The MathWorks have release Simulink Fixed Point 6. 
A major upgrade within the Simulink product family, Simulink Fixed Point 6 delivers capabilities for designing and simulating fixed-point systems and generating optimised code for implementation, while creating more efficient workflows.

Click here to read the full press release.

to contact Bruce if you wish to learn about this MATLAB product.

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Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry used MathWorks
Tools in its quest to cure cancer

The Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry is using MATLAB, Parallel Computing Toolbox, MATLAB Distributed Computing Server, and other MathWorks tools to accelerate its workflow and drastically reduce research and development time.

Researchers at the department of Molecular Structural Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, based in Martinsried, near Munich, Germany, study the relationship between the structure and activity of macromolecular protein complexes involved in protein degradation in cells. This complex research requires high-throughput tools and procedures capable of efficiently processing vast amounts of data.

Click here to read the full press release.

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MathWorks News & Notes 2008 Now Available

The MathWorks News & Notes magazine is published once a year in print and online. Each issue includes Cleve's Corner, product news, and up to 14 technical articles.

We recently mailed out copies of The MathWorks News & Notes to those who were on current maintenance or registered an interest to receive a copy.

We have plenty of spare printed copies of the MathWorks News and Notes magazine, so if you wish to receive a copy of this issue and copies of future issues, please contact HRS with your full contact details including a postal address. If you are a student, we would require your personal address, not your university’s postal address.

If you prefer to view The MathWorks News & Notes online, then click here.

Click here to read previous issues online.

to contact Bruce for a hard copy of the MATLAB News & Notes.

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Subscribe to the MATLAB Digest

The MATLAB Digest electronic newsletters are sent via e-mail up to six times a year. Each issue is also available online. The Digests provide technical tips, technical articles, downloadable code, and product and event announcements.

Read the November 2008 edition which is live on the MathWorks web site and contains the following articles:

• Technical Article: "Developing a Motion-Stereo Parking Assistant at BMW" By Dr. Eric Wahl, BMW Group, and Dr. Rolf-Dieter Therburg, THECON
• Technical Article: "Converting Models from Floating to Fixed Point for Production Code" Generation - By Bill Chou and Tom Erkkinen
• MATLAB Central: Redesigned File Exchange launched with new features making it even easier to locate, navigate, and tag content.
• Blog Spotlight: Inside the MATLAB Desktop
• User Story: Doug's MATLAB Video Tutorials

You can subscribe to the MATLAB Digest by clicking here.

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Maple Toolbox for MATLAB free for a limited time

For a limited time, the Maple Toolbox for MATLAB is being offered at no charge to owners of Maple 12.

The Maple Toolbox for MATLAB combines the best in symbolic and numeric computation to develop mathematical solutions and perform in-depth analysis of the results. You can have a technical computing solution that is tightly integrated with MATLAB, providing direct access to all the commands, variables, and functions of Maple and MATLAB while working in either environment.

Visit http://www.maplesoft.com/mtm/index.aspx.

to contact Glen about Maple.

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Maple 12.01 and MapleSim Pre-release Build 6

Maple 12.01 is now available. For more details please visit the Maple 12.01 download page.
MapleSim Pre-release Build 6 is now available for use in evaluations, and the final version is expected to be released early in 2009.

to contact Glen for a Maple 12 or MapleSim 6 evaluation.

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Maple User Story: Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International
use Maple in Multi-asset Product Development

The latest release of Maple offers quantitative finance professionals a platform for maximising their productivity and efficiency, strengthening its reputation as their tool of choice. Maple’s powerful mathematical engine and sophisticated algorithms deliver a rich environment for modelling financial products and for process optimisation.  "In the world of financial options, analytical results are not always obvious, and testing for their existence can be a tedious and lengthy process. Employing Maple makes it very different; if a symbolic solution exists, Maple finds it quickly and correctly," said Igor Hlivka of Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International. He recently developed a series of applications using Maple for multi-asset product development and for deriving semi-analytical solutions to non-standard options where multivariate stochastic processes play a determining role.

Click here to read the full press release.

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Maple User Story: Optimal Control Design of a Voice Coil
Actuator Head in a Hard Drive

The ability to quickly and accurately access information stored on a hard drive is a crucial feature of modern computers. As the storage capacity of hard drives increases, data is stored more densely, making the data difficult to retrieve quickly and accurately. To access the stored information, modern hard drives use a voice coil actuator to position a read-write head to different tracks of the hard drive. Accurate positioning is challenging because of the inability of current control systems to physically measure the position of the head.

Click here to read the full press release.

to contact Glen about Maple.

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Remark Office OMR 7 has been released

Remark Office OMR 7 offers many new features including:

• OCR (optical character recognition) to automatically recognize machine-printed characters.
• More 1D and 2D barcode types.
• Ranking question type to the OMR region types so respondents can rank items in a list.
• "Allow Blanks" option to the Template Editor
• Qualitative response coding.
• Name builder to create dynamic image names and paths based on recognised data.
• Package and rename images.
• Saving stored image file names when saving data using the advanced data saving options.
• Access/Excel 2007 support.
• Duplicate detection.
• Extra credit questions for test grading.

Visit the following web page for full details of the features above:
http://www.hrs.co.nz/remark.

to contact Glen about Remark Office OMR 7.

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ChemDraw's Fragmentation Tool

The ChemDraw Fragmentation toolbar contains the Mass Fragmentation tool as well as Dissociation and Retrosynthesis tools. The Mass Fragmentation tool splits molecules across a selected bond and creates fragments corresponding to the fragmentation that would have occurred in a Mass spec experiment. The Synthesis tool (Dissociation tool) produces a reaction in which the original structure is the product, and the fragments formed by breaking the bond are the reactants. The Retrosynthesis tool produces a reaction in which the original structure is the reactant, and the fragments formed by breaking the bond are the products.

to contact Bruce about the ChemDraw Fragmentation toolbar.

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CLC bio Gene Expression Analysis

After more than a year of hard work by scientists and developers, CLC bio has now entered the field of Gene Expression Analysis.

The upcoming releases of CLC Main Workbench and CLC Genomics Workbench will include analysis of traditional Expression Arrays as well as Digital Gene Expression based on Next Generation Sequencing technologies - fully integrated with all other analyses in CLC bio workbenches.

to contact Bruce about CLC bio products for Gene Expression Analysis.

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Using Weighting Transformations in Forecast Pro

Read this tips and tricks article on using weighting transformations in Forecast Pro to produce better, more accurate forecasts.

Click here to read the full article.

to contact Glen about Forecast Pro.

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General News & Working with HRS

HRS Sponsorship

HRS has sponsored many association and society events over the years and we will continue to do this for events where delegates have a strong need for our products.

If you or an associate are organising a conference where the delegates could benefit from using the many mathematics based products sold and supported by HRS, please contact Leon by emailing leon@hrs.co.nz or by calling him on 0800 477 776.

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User Stories

If you have any newsworthy user stories related to our products that you think our customers would be interested in reading, please contact Leon.

to email Leon or call him on 0800 477 776 to supply us with your product news.

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Advertising your events on the HRS Website

If we sponsor your event, or your delegates are likely to be using one of our products, contact Leon to place details of your conference on our website.

to email Leon or call him on 0800 477 776 to advertise your event.

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Best wishes,

Leon Tepania
Marketing Manager
Hoare Research Software Ltd
Email: leon@hrs.co.nz

For all general enquiries
please phone us on 0800 477 776